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Exhaust Assembly
Handling Description: Transfer and place exhaust assemblies from welding table to storage rack. Problems: Long parts are laying horizontal on the welding table at a 30-degree down angle. The catalytic converter is towards the operator. Parts are placed into the rack vertically, the catalytic
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Automotive Exhaust Assemblies
Problem: Two styles of exhaust assemblies are manufactured in batches. The weld fixture has clamps to hold the assemblies and the shipping racks have cradles to support the assemblies. Each rack holds ten assemblies arranged in two rows with each row containing five assemblies. Assemblies in front
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A scalable cooling strategy to meet current and future thermal management requirements
Packaging. Enclosures, Cabinets, and Chassis. Fasteners, Retainers, Panels, Clips. Prototyping Tools, Equipment, Services. Shielding and Insulation. Passive Components. Antennas. Capacitors. Circuit Protection. Magnetics, Inductors, Transformers. Oscillators, Crystals, Saw Filters. Resistors
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MICRO: Product Technology News (April 2001)
A simulation tool set enables photolithography engineers and IC designers to predict the manufacturability of their products before production. The LithoCruiser helps design and optimize lithography processes. It allows viewing of the lithography process windows based on the simulation of circuit
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Safety rides the bus Packaging system demonstrates AS-I-Safe
systems often have a PLC with rack I/O that lets a computer monitor and control each machine function. However, since the advent of networks such as Profibus, AS-I, ModBus, DeviceNet, and Remote I/O, distributed I/O architecture has been widely adopted for machine control. It replaces the large
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Precision Actuator Puts New Spin on Solar Power
signal confirming the correct position. And because the heating tube is a continuous circuit that traverses the solar collector assemblies, all arrays must move at precisely the same time. At the end of the day, a high-speed 3.75-gpm pump engages and quickly returns the panels to the home position
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Enclosures
are a base unit, consolet (writing surface), and top unit (similar to base unit, but with an inclined front door). Base and top units include provisions for optional accessory mounting. Panels, shelves, chassis guides and drawers as well as 19 and 24-in. rack-mounting angles from a standard line
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MICRO:Facility Automation, by Ken Van Antwerp (Oct '99)
quality, many fabs have had to revamp their logistics systems. For example, the Philips SMST facility in Boblingen, Germany, made the transition from an all-memory fab using a "push" product-flow model to a large, mixed-product application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) fab using a "pull