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 ...

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 ...

Purdue's Automated Assembly Team. Front: David Burroughs, Jason Wintz, Aaron Burns. Second row: Mike Harrington, Ryan Streu, Brad Harriger (team advisor) and Kelley VanBuskirk (Phoenix Contact mentor) ...

The majority of automated manufacturing assembly processes require the reorientation or "picking and placing" of parts at least once. Examples include parts being loaded into an automated assembly ...

In the past, it is common for smaller companies and startups to hand solder small quantities of circuit boards in order to fine-tune their PCB designs. As things ramp up and production increased, it ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

As electronic products move from prototyping to mass production, manufacturers must rely on efficient, scalable, and ...