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Five Things You Should Know About Parts Trays for Pick-Measure-Record-and-Place Automation
A Q-Span Workstation uses cobot grippers to automatically pick parts from “parts-in” trays and place them into appropriate “parts-out” trays after measuring them. Designing parts-in and parts-out trays for each part is not difficult, but there are five key points to keep in mind.
What goes down is likely to go up faster
Here’s a good opinion piece from AMT, the Association for Manufacturing Technology. As many previous recessions, depressions, and crashes have proven, U.S. business will be back. While preparing for the economic downturn, keep in mind that growing from the...Hidden Quality Costs in Manufacturing
Although we carefully monitor costs in manufacturing, many costs are not top of mind because they’re out of sight. Like an iceberg, most of the cost mass remains hidden underwater. Here’s one way you can address those massive costs for small-part manufacturing.