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What is Wrench Time in Industrial Maintenance?

ATS

Keith Mobley and Ricky Smith, 2007). Continuous improvement programs: Ongoing efforts such as lean manufacturing implementation, maintenance kaizen events and root cause analysis sessions can help pinpoint systemic barriers to improved wrench time. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007. Consider the example above.

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Building an Integrated, End-to-End R&D and Manufacturing Service Platform with Innovative R&D and High-end Preparation Technologies

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

To address the escalating market competition, strategies such as outsourcing R&D and manufacturing services or directly acquiring technological achievements are becoming essential for improving R&D quality and accelerating development timelines.

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Automation upgrades reduce sortation system wiring and lower costs

Control Engineering

Engineers there worked with an automation vendor to improve their equipment, computing power and communication protocols to provide better insights and reduce potential automation bottlenecks. Business continues to boom in the intralogistics industry.

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Fusing biology with the bionic ear

E&T

These cells are like ‘keys on a piano’ and range from low to high frequency, explains Dr Robert Gay, director of pharmaceutical approaches at Cochlear, a Sydney-based manufacturer of the device. The research, which started in 2007, is based on an optogenetics method that emerged around the millennium and has been shown to work in rodents.