A software-powered simulation for assembly behavior can compensate for the gap in automation by building intuition in the safety of a high-fidelity digital twin. The best way to align a screw is a ...

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It’s been just over 100 years since Henry Ford and his team at Highland Park assembly plant launched the world’s greatest contribution to manufacturing – the first moving assembly line. It simplified ...

We saw it next to the robotic arm that installs windshields on truck cabs at the Kenworth assembly plant in Chillicothe, Ohio. It was an elevator—a very large parts elevator—about 15 feet behind us.

Removing the human element from the process of cable-to-connector assembly for medical devices by the use of robotic automation improves reliability and reduces production cost. Miniature assemblies, ...

Even OneWeb’s mega-constellation, whose first satellites are just now being built by the OneWeb-Airbus joint venture OneWeb Satellites in Toulouse, France, doesn’t provide the scale needed to justify ...

Download the PDF of this article. When a company automates an assembly process, the fastening pins that will be used during assembly are just as important as the automation equipment. Two of the ...

"The time it takes to cast a large part by melting aluminum alloy through precision molds is only 2 minutes. Tesla has also applied this casting technology in the manufacturing process, but Xiaomi can ...

People do incredible things with Lego bricks. They’re a powerful tool to turn any number of ideas into something real and functional. Cars have always been popular Lego products, but a machine that ...