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Options for Pick and Place

As electromechanical units and robots increase in popularity, pneumatic and cam-driven systems remain staples in pick and place operations

Jim Camillo

November 5, 2018

The No. 1 application for robots, be they Cartesian, SCARA, delta or six-axis models, is also the easiest: pick up a part from one location and place it in another.

Rethink Robotics Gets Rethought

John Sprovieri

November 5, 2018

Rethink Robotics, the pioneering manufacturer of the Baxter and Sawyer collaborative robots, closed for business Oct. 3, just 10 years after it started.

Smart Robots Master the Art of Gripping

October 22, 2018

Although robots have successfully tackled a variety of manufacturing tasks, many assembly applications still suffer from complex, time-consuming programming.

Rethink Robotics Shuts Down

October 11, 2018

BOSTON—Rethink Robotics, the pioneering manufacturer of the Baxter and Sawyer collaborative robots, closed for business Oct. 3, just 10 years after it started.

Pneumatic Technology Drives Innovative Flow Drill Systems

Zoe Leduc

October 10, 2018

Faced with the need to join aluminum to aluminum and aluminum to steel, automakers have been forced to find alternatives to the tried-and-true spot welding technology they had been using for decades to join all-steel assemblies. Flow drill screws are one such alternative.

60 Years of ASSEMBLY

For six decades, ASSEMBLY has been the leading source of knowledge about tools and techniques for joining parts into finished products

John Sprovieri

October 5, 2018

ASSEMBLY was born in October 1958 with the name Assembly & Fastener Engineering. Although its name was later shortened to Assembly Engineering, and subsequently to ASSEMBLY, it was then, and is today, a magazine of ideas and methods.

Lasers for Lightweighting

Lasers are creating new possibilities for automakers to shape and join lightweight materials

John Sprovieri

October 4, 2018

Automotive OEMs worldwide are desperate to reduce vehicle weight these days. BMW is no exception.

2018 Assembly Plant of the Year: Ford Shifts Flexible Assembly Into High Gear

The Van Dyke transmission plant excels at high-volume, high-mix production.

Austin Weber

October 2, 2018

One of the top transmission assembly plants in the world is Ford Motor Co.'s Van Dyke facility in Sterling Heights, MI. It's part of a network of Ford factories that mass-produce axles, engines and other power train components used in the company's cars and trucks.

Rolls-Royce Develops Robots to Crawl Into Jet Engines

October 1, 2018

FARNBOROUGH, England—Rolls-Royce engineers are developing miniature robots that could be used in future jet engine maintenance applications.

Southwest Research Institute Creates Cobot Lab

September 25, 2018

The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has launched a Collaborative Robotics Laboratory to deliver advanced automation technology to the heavy industry and manufacturing sectors.

Toyota Halts RAV4 Production in Japan Following Supplier Explosion

Apple to Invest Billions in U.S. Manufacturing

Mercedes Deploys Humanoid Robots on the Assembly Line

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