Fashion may never be the same again. Within 5 years, cyber visors, e-vests, memory glasses, wrist computers and other electronic devices are expected to be as much a part of the fashion scene as jewelry or neckties are today.
When implementing either lean manufacturing or Six Sigma, companies often find that reaping the low-hanging fruit is easy, while plantwide improvements are difficult.
Walter Alexander Ltd., the world’s largest builder of double-decker bus bodies, is using Radan’s (Bath, England) computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software to manufacture the ALX range of single- and double-decker buses.
Torit, a global division of Donaldson Co. Inc. (Minneapolis) and manufacturer of air filtration systems, had customer concerns in mind when it was designing its newest cartridge dust collection system—the Downflo Oval 1.
In a motion control system, the amplifier takes a low-voltage command signal from the controller and amplifies it into electrical power to drive the motor.
"We use industrial robots to perform the adhesive trace operations on our assembly lines. We have more than 20 robots using a crash protection device, and we have virtually eliminated downtime and retraining on these systems," says Bert Britton, technical engineering supervisor for Guide Corp. (Monroe, LA). "
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