“Wire forming is our business,” automotive supplier JR Manufacturing writes on its Web site. As proof, the company points to the fact that it currently makes more than 100 wire seat components for major automakers, including Acura, Chrysler, Honda, Lexus, Mitsubishi and Toyota.
Fifty milliseconds may not seem like a lot of time. Indeed, the human eye takes between 300 and 400 milliseconds to complete a single blink. And yet in the context of a high-speed automated assembly system, in which a single linear actuator might make more than a dozen moves per minute, 50 milliseconds here and there can really add up.
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, IL-Lenze Americas, a manufacturer of motion control technologies, is expanding its assembly plant here and will hire up to 40 skilled workers. MORE
CHARLOTTE, NC-Bosch Rexroth has developed interactive electronic catalogs optimized for the iPad. The catalogs include embedded videos, white papers and specification information for the company’s line of conveyors, workstations, structural aluminum components and motion control products. MORE