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Electrification Brings Changing Demands to Automotive Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

The electronic components of EV motors require a clean environment for assembly, which means greater attention to HVAC systems and air filters, as well as enclosing spaces, to control airborne particles. Current assembly lines at ZF are about 33% automated; Lillard says that for the EV products, lines will be closer to 70% automated.

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Meet J.A.M.E.S at electronica 2022 Booth B1.507

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stands for “Jetted Additively Manufactured Electronics Sources,” and was founded to advance the development of AME (Additively Manufactured Electronics) through a collaborative space that delivers technical know-how, design enablement and real-time communication, within a diverse global community, and at all levels of expertise.

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Navigating Outsource Manufacturing

Trimantec

Assembly Line. Assembly lines are designed to connect workstation activities and pace products through a fixed sequence. Assembly line products are high in uniformity and low in variations. . Automation technology is becoming less mechanical and more electronic and electromechanical. 3D Printer.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 1: A Return From China

Modern Machine Shop

In the meantime, you have probably sent your schematics, maybe your tools and dyes over to China to help on the assembly line. Every time we 3d printed or CNC'ed, or anytime we made a part, we'd go out and use it. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Land E-motorcycles were on display.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 6: Why, and How, Hardinge is Reshoring Machine Tool Production

Modern Machine Shop

Before the end of the next day, I was an electronic assembler. I worked in a final assembly area for about a year and a half. Worked my way from mechanical assembly, electrical assembler up to electronic tech. Assembly tech. So my role changed relatively quickly. I mix and edit the show.

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Robotics in Manufacturing

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In 1961, Devol deployed Unimate at General Motor’s assembly line at a die casting plant. Assembly robots are utilized to assemble, fix, press, fit, insert and disassemble materials or products. Assembly line robots pick products off conveyor belts and place them at a desired location.