Assembly Automation: Volume 22 Issue 4

Optically tooled bowl feeders

This paper reviews bowl feeders with optical sensors, used in industrial automation and assembly, describing their advantages over mechanically tooled bowl feeders, their…

ElectRelease – electrically disbonding epoxy adhesive

ElectRelease was originally developed to temporarily bond monitoring instruments to supersonic fighter aircraft permitting subsequent disbonding without surface damage or marking…

Sheet metal FMS gives more space to Airflow

Describes the use of a laser for profiling sheet metal and a sophisticated handling system that eliminates hard tooling and reduces stockholding.

Rapid manufacturing advances at Loughborough

An outline of the current activities in the Rapid Manufacturing (RM) Group at Loughborough University, one of the new Innovation Research Centres funded by the Engineering and…

VDAS: a virtual design and assembly system in a virtual reality environment

The paper presents a virtual design and assembly system (VDAS) developed in a virtual reality (VR) environment. The VDAS is a VR‐based engineering application which allows…

The automated filling of bonded joints – Part 1 two dimensional joints

A parameter has been identified that can be used to calculate a joint's bond‐line thicknesses. This was successfully represented by a fourth order polynomial expression and has…

Computer‐aided fixture design verification

Computer‐aided fixture design (CAFD) techniques have been advanced so rapidly that computers can now generate fixture configurations automatically, for both modular fixtures and…

Reduction of printed circuit board group assembly time through the consideration of efficiency loss of placement time

In a high‐mix middle‐volume production environment for printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, the production efficiency strongly depends not only on the tactical level of how to…

Holroyd’s superabrasive edgetek machines are a major breakthrough for the future of machining

Pattern Recognition: Concepts, Methods and Applications

Misunderstandings eliminated

New controller for vacuum pumps improves materials handling efficiency

Low cost rapid prototyping

Build better prototypes with high-resolution material from stratasys

Parts alignment

Brooks automation completes the acquisition of PRI Automation Shareholders give approval of the acquisition which makes Brooks-PRI the single largest automation supplier to the semiconductor industry

AC Tech launches the lowest cost Devicenet™ compatible motor drive on the market

Automatic infeeder

Modular automation signs as preferred photonics partner for adept in USA

Automatic screw feeding machine

CADML – the future language of part feeding?

Astrium embraces DELMIA methodology from Dassault Systemes

Note from the publisher

Internet page

Mikron achieves zero defects in high-speed assembly of gas generators for TRW airbag systems

Osprey ce alloys meet market demands

Advances in Manufacturing Technology XV

Major automaker installs Perceptron’s AutoFit™ system to improve gap and flush quality

Information-Based Manufacturing: Technology, Strategy and Industrial Applications

Festo does more than generate a vacuum

Bench top robots – compact and inexpensive

Diary

New sealed 3-jaw gripper ideal for robots and automated assembly machines

Single fieldbus standard on the horizon? Not in the short term, end-users concede

Assembléon introduces high-speed bare-die capability on versatile mid-volume component mounters

Object sorting

World's first virtual centre for simulation services launched

Naples coombe launches modular solution to fast evolving automation problems

Feeding system

Disbonding comes of age

Cognex enters into product development agreement with Accu-Sort Systems

Awards for Excellence

MEM250 automate manual assembly line using modular automation system