Remove Assembly Line Remove Bill of Materials Remove Supply Chain
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Five advances in motion control, communications, design to ease automation use

Control Engineering

A new Festo family of multi-protocol servo drives provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with productivity and cost advantages with less inventory, by preventing supply chain issues and working smarter with this family of servo drives. These assembly lines incorporate up to 20 handling gantries.

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Mixed Mode Manufacturing

ATS

If the company wanted to handle the process start-to-finish, they could create a discrete assembly line for car bodies, process-based operations for making and applying paint, and a repetitive line for packaging. Consider a business that makes high-quality model cars.