One of the newest trends in the arena of manufacturing is cellular manufacturing. Traditional assembly line manufacturing had operators perform their individual tasks, exactly as prescribed, over and over again, as the unit being assembled came past on a conveyor or was brought to them by some such similar means. Assemblies would be passed …
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Special Applications
Most Equipment Suppliers produce a selection of standard products, that perform a few basic functions, designed for a range of applications. The end-users who purchase them and use them in their manufacturing facilities, often have to rig together “science projects” on their shop floor to make that equipment do precisely what their manufacturing …
Promess Exhibits Four Intelligent Assembly “Building Block” Technologies At Automate 2019
Promess, Inc. manufactures turnkey monitoring and motion sensing systems for precision assembly and test applications based on a series of standard hardware components synchronized, controlled and monitored with sophisticated programmable electronics and specialized proprietary software. They will exhibit four system “building block” technologies …
In The Air And On The Ground, The Future Is Electric
By Glenn Nausley, President, Promess, Inc. Hydraulics have been the technology of choice for aerospace actuators almost as long as the industry has been in existence, but that’s now changing very rapidly. The trend today is strongly toward replacing hydraulics with advanced electric actuators utilizing new permanent magnet materials and …
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How To Build Intelligent Manufacturing Systems For An Electric Future
By: John Lytle, Engineering Manager Two of the biggest trends in the auto industry today are flexible production systems and electric power. And while at first glance they may seem to have little in common, the truth is that the underlying technologies needed to implement both are, in many cases, identical. This is where intelligent …
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