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 ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Industrial production processes, by and large, rely on robotic assembly lines that place, package, and connect a variety of disparate components. While the manufacturing world is ...

Today we are very used to running a rich variety of operating systems and programs on our mobile devices, from Office on a Windows laptop to a game on our Android smartphones, we are accustomed to ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

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 ...

Move over human chemists, there are now molecule-sized robot arms that do chemical synthesis with high selectivity and efficiency, and take no vacation. A team of researchers led by chemist David A.

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 ...

When you start to solve a jigsaw puzzle you face many choices. Is it best to separate the puzzle pieces by shape? By color? Should the outside edges be constructed first? What are the best techniques ...