Five Tips for Sucessful SPC
Statistical process control doesn't have a strong foundation in American manufacturing - yet. Of all American manufacturers, 30 to 40 percent use the process. In the fabricating and metalworking fields, due to its ties to automotive, that number clim...

Job-Shop Appeal
The cell runs 35 products that represent different part families. Operations are extremely flexible. For instance, it is simple to interrupt the production schedule to quickly machine urgently needed parts. A switch at the loading station allows the ...

Unique Racing Products
A racecar enthusiast for years, Chris Alston has been designing and manufacturing drag-racing components and assemblies since 1975. He established his own company in 1987. The core business is the design and manufacture of drag-race chassis and suspe...

Manufacturing Customized Parts in 24 Hours
It's not a gas pedal; it's throttle. And it's never gas; it's fuel. Sitting in your rolling thunder, pushing on the throttle to get your most efficient hole shot, you follow the optimal racing line. And to get that, he needs a particular, custom part...

When Quality Demands Clean Parts
For 40 years, VMP Inc. of Valencia, Calif., had been using the same cleaning system to clean and finish the thousands of parts that the screw machine shop produces each day. Each part must be oil free and completely clean; meeting or not meeting thes...

Drowning Out the Noise
The selling process -- and the role of the salesman specifically -- has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. The salesman was once viewed as the disseminator of information in the process, continually working hard to bridge the all-important ...

Chain Drive Drum Rebuilding Reduces Chain Wear
Conveyor systems often labor for weeks or months without any attention. Like so many other systems in today's modern plants, most conveyor systems are so well-designed that they seem to hardly need maintenance at all. However, a bit of periodic ma...

The robots of Modernity
The robots of Modernity The Japanese craftsman Tanaka Hisashige (1799-1881), known as the 'Edison Japanese', created a selection of extremely complex mechanical toys that served tea, fired arrows and could even paint a Japanese kanji character. I...

Robotics Technology
Robotics is a multidisciplinary area that makes use of all resources forefront of all sciences at the end is for this reason it is an area that attracts me, for this and decided to carry out my thesis project for eligibility for Engineering degree Pe...

Industrial Robotics
PROBLEM (ROBOTICS) The robotic manipulator as such is a multi-purpose, reprogrammable for activities such as moving materials, parts, tools etc. Through programmed movements and variables that allow you to perform various tasks. At present it h...