Electronic and mechanical torque wrenches ensure that power tools are tightening fasteners accurately.

In 2006, the Assembly Top 50 paid more than $43.3 billion in income taxes to one government or another.

Our 50 biggest manufacturers generated $2.48 trillion in sales last year, an increase of 9 percent over 2005.

After Day 1 at the 28th annual Assembly Technology Expo, it looks as if the strategy of co-locating the show with the Electronics Assembly Show, Quality Expo, National Manufacturing Week and Plastec Midwest is, indeed, producing the “synergies” that the show organizers expected.

 

We’ve seen plenty of interesting equipment at the show so far. Topping my list are a nifty press setup from PennEngineering and a new way to attach wires to circuit boards.

Vision-guided robotics can help manufacturers improve accuracy, increase flexibility and decrease fixturing costs in automated assembly systems.