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Sensing Systems for Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a concept that engineers often tend to over-think in design and over-complicate in execution. When it comes to assembly operations this often results in engineers stripping equipment back to the bare bones, which is almost always a huge mistake. Lean means cutting the fat, not the muscle, or as Sami Niemela, the creative …
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The trend toward consolidating suppliers and buying modules or assemblies rather than parts is well-established and accelerating across a broad range of industries. It started in aerospace, where typically up to 70% of each aircraft produced today is made by suppliers. It’s common for an aircraft …
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In 2004, Promess Inc.’s founder, Larry Stockline, wrote an article describing how two fairly new technologies, real-time process monitoring and signature analysis, were combined to improve the quality of an automotive wheel-stud insertion system. The system he described used linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) sensors to monitor the …
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There are many different ways of testing gears and the assemblies in which they are incorporated. Functional Gear Assembly Testing Functional gear assembly testing could be defined as a series of tests that simulate the intended function of the product in an effort to determine whether an assembly operates within a specified performance …
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