To error-proof assembly, engineers wanted to implement a system to guide workers through each fastening step while ensuring ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Nashay Naeve, president of the Engineered Plastic Components business unit at Tsubaki Nakashima, breaks down why manufacturers are still struggling to fill roles, what leaders can change immediately ...

You can trace these and other powder coating problems back to one issue: parts hanging. Getting it wrong can make powder coating an excessive, unpredictable constraint. Getting it right can relieve ...

RIYADH—A Saudi Arabian final assembly line for rotorcraft could become a long-awaited reality through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by Airbus Helicopters and the Saudi National Center for ...

Rollon introduces CLTA, a new belt-driven circular system engineered to support oval and rectangular motion paths.

A revolution in novel nanoparticles and colloidal building blocks has been enabled by recent breakthroughs in particle synthesis. These new particles are poised to become the ‘atoms’ and ‘molecules’ ...

In the olden days — a mere 20 years ago — people talked about hard colloidal particles and soft vesicles or micelles, which covered all sizes from the micrometre to the nanometre regime. Now we talk ...

Abstract: Jig-less assembly of a shaft-shaped part with a single versatile robotic hand requires several functions of the hand to achieve a series of operations such as alignment, picking, ...

Abstract: This paper studies the flexible assembly job-shop scheduling problem in a dynamic manufacturing environment, which is an exension of job-shop scheduling with incorporation of serveral types ...