Skoda says it is pressing ahead with the implementation of technologies in line with Industry 4.0 principles and has opened an ‘automatic small parts warehouse’ at the main plant in Mlada Boleslav. It ...

Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

The design stage of a product’s life cycle is arguably one of the most crucial decision making periods, as 70 to 80 percent of the overall manufacturing cost can be projected at this stage. Engineers ...

More than 50% of total production time is spent on assembly or fastening. However, mechanical fastening usually represents less than 5% of the total in-place or assembled cost of a product. When ...

On December 18 of last year, inside the small assembly process area at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Yongyeon Factory in Ulsan ...

Although optical subsystems are widespread in applications such as sensing and telecoms today, the way in which the optics components are assembled and packaged remains a tricky and time-consuming ...

The 18 XPlanar movers on the assembly machine built by Automation NTH travel over 18 motor tiles to present the blood test kits to the various reagent filling ...

Rochester Institute of Technology recently installed a MIRTEC MV3 OMNI automated, optical inspection machine in its Center for Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly (CEMA). The equipment enables ...