Design for assembly techniques help create a door module that combines quality improvements with assembly efficiency. Manufacturers constantly look for ways to reinvent their products to improve quality, minimize labor and reduce overall costs. Whether the product is a machine tool or a child's toy, engineers...
The new High Energy Laser facility being designed at the Atomic Weapons Establishment provides tools for advanced materials research. Engineers at AWE are using LUSAS Analyst to help optimize the design of a laser mirror assembly used at the facility. By using LUSAS Analyst the design of the surface flatness...
Specializing in wing assembly automation, Washington State-based Electroimpact has designed and manufactured aircraft assembly equipment since 1987 for such customers as Boeing, Textron Aero-structures, Northrop and British Aerospace. Electroimpact designs and manufactures aircraft assembly equipment. An IBM and Dassault Systemes design solution plays an important role in the development of...
Workers on an automotive assembly line need detailed documents that combine textual instructions with lots of illustrations that show graphically how assembly operations are to be performed. These documents are often called Product Assembly Documents PADs. They typically incorporate graphics drawn from a variety of sources....
SURESNES, France--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 13, 1996--On December 8, 1996, Boeing rolled out the "Next Generation" 737 family of airplanes. An integral component of the Next-Generation 737 program was CATIA System, used for the design and assembly of the newest 737. During the design and assembly of the newest 737, Boeing,...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Xerox Corporation's (NYSE: XRX) New York-based manufacturing operations have been named "Assembly Plant of the Year" by Assembly magazine, a leading industry publication for manufacturing and design engineers, managers and assembly professionals.
00-00-0000 ENHANCED ASSEMBLY FUNCTIONALity highlights new Version 11 of Unigraphics design-through-manufacture software from EDS Unigraphics, Maryland Heights, Mo. The advanced-assemblies ... 00-00-0000 ENHANCED ASSEMBLY FUNCTIONALity highlights new Version 11 of Unigraphics design-through-manufacture software from EDS Unigraphics, Maryland Heights, Mo. The advanced-assemblies module...
Lucent Technologies uses a method called Design for Simplicity to improve the assembly of equipment that houses and connects the company telecommunication products. Lucent Technologies uses a method called Design for Simplicity to improve the assembly of equipment that houses and connects the company...
Appliance Design and Assembly Solutions from 3M offers a variety of solutions to enhance appliance design and productivity. The 12-page guide is extensively illustrated with application photos of 3M tools and technologies, including tapes, adhesive Appliance Design and Assembly Solutions from 3M offers a...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sierra Design Automation, Inc., the technology leader in high-performance IC implementation solutions, today announced that STMicroelectronics, a leading supplier of semiconductors, has used the recently introduced version of Sierra PinnacleTM product suite showcasing Advanced Chip Assembly to tapeout an advanced 90nm design. The company also announced...
A new tin dipping machine from Design & Assembly Concepts Inc. shows off some of the advantages of prototyping robots and machinery in National Instruments Corp.'s LabView software. And to National Instruments, prototyping is only the beginning. A new tin dipping machine from Design &...
CAD/CAM & PDM Design for manufactureDesigning products with manufacturing and assembly DFMA in mind can bring significant cost savings to the business. Better quality products, cost savings and faster time to market are just some of the benefits, writes Dr Charles ClarkeEver since the first caveman knocked the corners off...
Kraft Foods has formed a business agreement with U.S. home meal assembly business Dinner by Design. Dinner by Design, which offers a make and take-home entree service, will feature a variety of Kraft products, including A.1. steak sauce, Grey Poupon mustard, Oreo cookies and Stove Top stuffing. The two companies...
GM's newest vehicle assembly plant is "shrink-wrapped" around the processIf you were building a greenfield automotive assembly plant, you might look for sites of anywhere from 200 to 300 acres in size.So imagine the constraints faced by General Motors in planning its Grand River Assembly Plant (Lansing, MI). The facility...
Which multiple-input multiple-output MIMO test methods are most appropriate depends on the purpose of the testing. Manufacturing test needs to determine that an assembly has been correctly built because satisfactory operation is guaranteed by design. On the other hand, design test and verification are much more detailed and actually set...
COMAU is a global company that designs systems and equipment used by more than 20 Original Equipment Manufacturers OEMs to build their vehicles. Body Welding and Assembly. A proliferation of different Computer Aided Design CAD systems within COMAU created process inefficiencies and resulted in data inconsistencies. All COMAU Body Welding...
