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A difficult challenge even under the best of circumstances! But given today’s increased cost of materials and components, and ever-shrinking Cap X budgets, the ability to generate an acceptable level of savings has become more difficult than ever. This is especially true when investing in capital-intensive, high-level assembly processes and …
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By: Jim CamilloSenior [email protected] Magazine Assembling control arms for one of America’s most popular car manufacturers is a challenge at many levels for ZF at its Lapeer, MI, plant. The assembly process includes precision machining a cast aluminum control arm, fixturing the arm multiple times, and installing a …
Manufacturing Engineering: How can software help manufacturers improve overall productivity? Andy Joseph, VP of Engineering at Promess: Software can make a huge impact in productivity whenever workers can multitask. For example, I remember a day when personal computers could do only one thing at a time. Windows fundamentally changed …
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If the battery in your flashlight or cell phone fails, it’s an inconvenience. But, if the medical device batteries in your surgically implanted medical device (IMD) fails, it’s a medical emergency. Needless to say, batteries for the latter are very special and put together with extreme care. Up to 90% of the volume of an IMD is the battery and …
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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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