Jabil Inc., a U.S.-based global manufacturing services company with electronics design, supply chain, production and product management capabilities, is investing heavily in metal additive manufacturing.
When Boeing was founded 100 years ago, engineers were concerned about how to use wiring to brace wings. As aircraft became more complex, engineers turned their attention to solving numerous wire harness assembly challenges. Many of their innovative solutions have been chronicled in the pages of ASSEMBLY magazine.
Airbus is investing in automation to tackle huge backlogs for its commercial jetliners. Bernard Duprieu, head of manufacturing technologies research at the Airbus Centre of Competence, Industrial Strategy and System, tells ASSEMBLY about the company’s FuturAssy automation strategy.
Successful manufacturers go to great lengths to better serve their customers. Modula USA has gone nearly 4,000 miles - from Italy to Maine - to better serve its customers in North and South America.
By now nearly every factory floor and office in the world makes use of Ethernet for its connectivity backbone. Worldwide it is also a given that IT Departments consider all things Ethernet a core capability of their expertise.