Automation solutions for aircraft construction: Pioneering mobile holding fixture for flexible clamping, alignment, and transport of components reduces the workload of production processes ...

This paper considers the problem of scheduling part families and jobs within each part family in a flowline manufacturing cell with independent family setup times where parts (jobs) in each family are ...

Figure 1. Transfer of current manually performed drilling processes at CFRP vertical tail planes (VTPs) to mobile cobots. Photo Credit, all images: Fraunhofer IFAM At its 4,500-square-meter research ...

New, weight-saving materials and manufacturing processes not only increase efficiency and reduce costs, but in particular represent milestones on the way to climate-friendly flying: in a typical ...

DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) aims to improve domestic flow battery systems’ manufacturing and validate as well as deepen the ...

Shimadzu has released an instrument to support the transfer of existing HPLC to faster UHPLC methods while assuring cross compatibility between old and new method conditions. The Nexera-i MT is based ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 24, 2012 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has accelerated the assembly of its Global Positioning System (GPS IIF) satellites through the use of a pulse-line manufacturing ...

Preparing a manufacturing facility to adopt artificial intelligence-based tools requires evaluating and upgrading its ...

Flow International, a maker of industrial waterjets, is closing its manufacturing operations in Kent and moving the work to a waterjet facility in Kansas owned by parent Shape Technologies. Though ...

Although continuous flow chemistry—wherein molecules are made in a continuous process rather than in batches—has gained ground in academic labs, its adoption by industry and contract manufacturing ...