Systems integrator Orientech Inc. recently designed an automated assembly system for surgical pens. The system assembles pens at a rate of 120 per minute.
Just as both the quality of the joint and the quality of the joint designer’s knowledge base will be limited by reliance on numerical analysis, the same limitations occur when experience and applied experimentation is all one has to draw from.
Hol-Mac wanted to increase technician efficiency
in its plants by making test equipment and computers more mobile. This mobility
would let technicians bring equipment to areas throughout the four facilities
as needed, rather then walking back and forth endlessly to static workstations.
Until recently, Northwest UAV Propulsion Systems ordered aircraft components from an outside vendor and performed sanding
and other finishing processes on them prior to manufacture. However, the parts purchased were often of an inconsistent quality, so NWUAV
decided to manufacture them in-house to ensure their high quality.
Engineers at Holden, the Australian subsidiary of General Motors, needed
a high-performance seal between the door and quarter window of the Holden VE
Ute coupe. The seal could not have separate fixing components.
Rixan Associates Inc. needed
to improve the flexibility of its vibratory bowl feeder system if it hoped to
win the business of a fastener manufacturer, which was manually loading 415
aerospace fasteners into a press.
The next time a harried commuter gets on a bus in New York City, he can take some solace from knowing that the vehicle was made just 320 miles away at Nova Bus’ new assembly plant in Plattsburgh, NY.
A medical device manufacturer needed to orient and sort empty, 2-milliliter plastic vials, count them, and place them on a tray in rows of 12 by 25 for final packaging in cartons. Read how it was done.
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