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Dowd: A good strategy, especially when it comes to automation, is somewhere between two points. That would be a very ...

Using data from a CAD file, a two-arm robotic system automatically places pins on a harness board and routes wires between ...

Download the PDF of this article. When a company automates an assembly process, the fastening pins that will be used during assembly are just as important as the automation equipment. Two of the ...

The integration level of a system-on-chip (SoC) is defined in RTL, just like the rest of the design. Historically, RTL has been built through text editors. However, a decade or more ago, the sheer ...

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 Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a 6-meter-diameter state-of-the-art telescope designed to operate at submillimeter to millimeter wavelengths for wide field observations and large-area ...

Software automation in PCB assembly. Advantages and disadvantages of software automation in PCB assembly. The PCB assembly (PCBA) process is becoming more complex with evolving market trends such as ...

This patent from Shengte Machinery focuses on the design of its automated tightening device. The device includes a workbench, a fixing mechanism, a transfer mechanism, and a tightening detection ...

Lean manufacturing seeks to make clear what adds value by reducing everything else. Lean is clearly not a fixed-point objective; accelerating global market competition demands operational flexibility ...

Engineers have developed a robot that can identify, collect, and manipulate two-dimensional nanocrystals. The robot stacked nanocrystals to form the most complex van der Waals heterostructure produced ...