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How Volkswagen was wooed

Canadian Manufacturing

And producing the batteries that power them requires a solid supply chain. “So when I saw that there was this big generational shift toward electric vehicles and I said, ‘There must be a fit.'” More than eight million vehicles rolled off the assembly line of a Ford plant in St.

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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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AI’s revolutionary impact on industrial manufacturing

Control Engineering

The added value of AI in manufacturing While Siemens is seeing great success using AI, many OEMs still have questions about AI’s value They believe they already have productive, efficient factories in place, so where does AI fit in? AI scales from a single machine and extends across the entire manufacturing production line and supply chain.

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

Modern Machine Shop

I almost ran my car off the road, when you look at the supply chain, and be able to say, hey, each region, every country in the world today, we need to make sure that we secure our own interests. So it was really optimizing a supply chain, a low-cost supply chain.

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Movers & Shakers Interview: Lien Hwa Group (Parent Company of Getac)

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Here, LHNE is focused on the entire supply chain, bringing together the ecosystem from fuel cell stack manufacturing and system integration to vehicle assembly and distribution. This is a perfect fit with our dedicated vehicle mounting solutions and software barcoding functionality.

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

Modern Machine Shop

When we launched this show a couple of years ago, we focused on the key topics that drive our conversations about US manufacturing, the 2000s era collapse of our manufacturing workforce, controversy surrounding automation, supply chain problems that COVID-19 put in the spotlight. We need to make sure that everything fits.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

Eventually, these hairpins need to fit into the exact grooves punched or cut into the stator stack sheets. Such high-precision assemblies require down-to-the-micrometer accuracy – and this is where ZEISS excels. Ltd: The major challenge right now is to set right the supply chain as this has been disrupted since the onset of Covid.