Centricity Corp. has developed a machine that feeds and assembles springs and other tubular parts.

Close knowledge gaps before closing performance gaps.

Ultimately, after consulting with a student-run focus group and putting the project out for bid, the college replaced more than 200 of its old desks with a set of Arlink workstations from industrial workbench and cabinet manufacturer Lista International Corp.

DCI Inc., in Olathe, KS, designs and manufactures electronics components and subassemblies for customers in a wide range of industries. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of specialized custom liquid crystal displays, light emitting diode displays and operator interfaces.

Traditional vibratory bowl feeders use a helical shelf-like inclined ramp winding up from the bottom of a bowl to a discharge passageway. The passageway’s reciprocating motion pushes the parts up the ramp.

Comau Group, a subsidiary of Fiat Spa, builds automated production machines for a wide range of customers, including those in the automotive industry. The company also manufactures turnkey automated assembly systems, robots, weld guns, conveyors, recognition software and other automation components.

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. has opened its new headquarters in Thornton, CO. Expected to hire some 200 people during the next two years, the facility was built to launch full-scale production of thin-film photovoltaic modules.

Sometimes, it’s the machine you don’t sell that wins you business.

Systems integrator Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing (Madison, WI) can’t lay claim to building a better mousetrap. However, it did find a way to build mousetraps better.

In the case of obsolete computers, TV sets, cell phones and myriad other electronic products discarded for recycling and reclamation, the challenge of how to safely dispose of them has become a major NIMBY issue.