Here?s how to join piece parts mechanically with or without loose rivets.

Attendees seeking technical information and state-of-the-art solutions will find them at Assembly Technology Expo 2002.

Special finishes are applied to threaded fasteners to prevent corrosion or enhance appearance.

Always employed as a final manufacturing step, functional testing provides a go or no-go decision on finished PCBs.

Sensors are used in assembly operations to detect presence, position, orientation or movement of an object.

Not every assembly task involving sheet metal is amenable to fasteners or welding. Clinching requires neither and can be a cost-effective method of joining sheet metal parts.

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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.