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Manufacturing companies can’t afford downtime in their operations due to a purchased component being out of stock or worst discontinued. Extended periods of machine downtime that shut down the entire assembly line cost thousands of dollars per hour, that’s why it’s important to get purchased components from a reliable supplier that stocks product available for…
Robotics and automation offer positive benefits to workers, not the least of which is a safer, easier, and more comfortable work environment. Larger companies have a dedicated ergonomics engineer that deal with this subject while smaller ones have the automation or process engineer champion this for the company. Low-Force Movements On the factory floor, low-force…
AGI O-ring grippers are designed to facilitate automated installation by spreading and ejecting the o-ring onto a part quickly, it can also be used for part seating applications. Via a vibratory feeder bowl, O-rings can be singulated and fed down a track to a dead nest fixture where the gripper can pick and place one…