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 ...

Tesla has been spotted assembling its giant new casting machine for Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas. Last year, Idra, the maker of Tesla’s large casting press, teased a new 9,000-ton Giga ...

A software-powered simulation for assembly behavior can compensate for the gap in automation by building intuition in the safety of a high-fidelity digital twin. The best way to align a screw is a ...

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 ...

The Industrial Assembly Challenge at the World Robot Summit was held in 2018 to showcase the state-of-the-art of autonomous manufacturing systems. The challenge included various tasks, such as bin ...

In job shops, throughput often lives in the steps between cuts: tooling, offsets, refixturing, programming and training. The March issue features practical ways shops are cutting setup time and ...