Myriad changes are expected in the soon-to-be-released third revision of the IPC-WHMA-A-620 standard for wire harness assemblies.

In May, Liberty Safe began running a new $10 million, fully computerized assembly plant in Payson, UT.

Traditionally, a complex manufacturing machine has one large, powerful controller that governs sequencing, motion and I/O. Multiple drives and motors are connected to the controller via a motion network.

A process re-evaluation and new technical furnishings inspire assemblers at a Southern California cable manufacturer.

Spin welding can join plastic parts that other methods cannot.

NuStep Inc. is not a big company. Based in Ann Arbor, MI, the exercise equipment manufacturer employs 80 people and tallied $24 million in sales in 2010.

Flexible feeders are the key to a future-proof assembly system.

Earlier this year, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. chose Athens, GA, as the site for a new factory to assemble small tractors and excavators. The company will be reshoring some 1,400 jobs to the new facility from an existing plant in Japan.

With a kinematic mechanism, the position of the end-effector is not determined by straight-line motion.

In September, President Obama signed into a law the first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system since 1952.