Latest News & Features – Page 216
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Contracts: Siemens, GAZ, Renault, ZF, Daimler
Germany – The Siemens Drive Technologies Division and Kuka Roboter have announced a co-operation agreement to integrate Kuka robots and Siemens machine tool solutions (CNC) for loading machine tools. The announcement was made at machine tool trade fair EMO Hanover.www.siemens.comwww.kuka-robotics.comRussia – GAZ and MW (the wheels division of Italian Group ...
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EcoDryScrubber wins Peugeot Citroën award
Peugeot Citroën has awarded Dürr an ‘Industrial Equipment Performance Award’ for its EcoDryScrubber paint booth system, used at the car maker’s plant in Sochaux, France. EcoDryScrubber enables separation without the use of water or chemicals, generates energy savings of 60%, and cuts paint particle and CO2 emissions. It can operate ...
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ArticleFast-cure Loctite MAX 3 polyurethane resin
Henkel has launched a new polyurethane matrix resin called Loctite MAX 3. Along with KraussMaffei and Rühl Puromer, the company has developed a process for the manufacture of components based on glass or carbon fi bre and using high-pressure RTM resin transfer moulding (HP-RTM) which creates a surface quality suitable ...
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ArticleSolidworks 2014 – new tools and enhancements
Dassult Systèmes has unveiled Solidworks 2014, a 3D software portfolio powered by the 3DExperience platform which includes: 3D CAD; simulation; product data management; technical communication; and electrical design.New tools and improvements have been developed to shorten the design process, enhance collaboration and increase productivity across four key areas: design tools; ...
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Laser Material Weldability app for top browsers
Miyachi Unitek has introduced a Laser Material Weldability app on its website which will provide users with quick access to information on weldability with laser, spot or seam welding.The tool is supported on popular browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla Firefox 11+, Google Chrome 14+ and Apple Safari ...
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ArticleCombat celebrates 35th anniversary
Over 35 years, the Malaysian company has operated as a specialist provider of industrial painting systems, while recent projects in Vietnam, Indonesia and India have reinforced its status as a major presence in Asia.Combat was selected by Malaysian motorcycle manufacturer Boon Siew Honda to install a new paintshop, following a ...
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ArticleDual-colour door panels
Johnson Controls has debuted a two-colour door panel technology which avoids both the need to assemble two different parts and to use an appliqué to cover the split, its says.The company says its innovation gives the high-quality appearance found within the premium segment, but at low cost. The colour split ...
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ArticleDebut for integrated safety controllers
OMRON Automation and Safety has intriduced its NX Series safety controllers which use a single network, connection and software solution to provide integrated automation and safety.The product uses the EtherCAT network in a mixed I/O backplane to enable design fl exibility and minimise wiring costs, says the company. Meanwhile, the ...
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ArticleA new framework for assembly
As vehicle-makers move towards multi-model assembly lines, a framing innovation enables greater efficiency.Automotive assembly doesn’t get much more fundamental than framing, the point at which body panels and sub-assembly structures come together to be welded into a single body shell.ABB’s gateway to a new type of framingMulti-model framingTraditionally carried out ...
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ArticleNew dry booth at Honda Yorii
Taikisha Japan has recently installed a dry booth at Honda’s Yorii plant near Tokyo which will allow overspray paint separation and removal by a filtration method rather than the water-based ‘venturi’ approach. In a dedicated chamber, the oversprayed paint and pre-coat material powder, usually a form of calcium carbonate (CaC03), ...
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ArticleVW to produce new Golf in Brazil
The OEM will invest an additional €170 million in its Curitiba plant in Paraná State for production of the new Golf in a move that “bears witness to Volkswagen’s considerable confidence in the Brazilian automobile market," said Dr. Michael Macht, Member of the Board of Management of VW responsible ...
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ArticleAC500 PLC able to handle ‘eXtreme Conditions’
ABB says its AC500-CX PLC offers protection against a wide range of threats, including high and low temperatures (normally -30 to +70C), high humidity, low air pressure (altitudes of 4,000m), salt mist and hazardous gases, plus vibration and shock (acceleration of 4g from random vibrations up to 500Hz, or 2g ...
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ArticlePaintshop for plastics
Sturm’s chief operating officer, Ralf Völlinger discusses the company's recent installation at BMW LeipzigThe economics of paintingThe three-coat painting processPainting system supplier Sturm Group has recently installed a paintshop designed for handling plastic parts for exterior vehicle components at the BMW factory in Leipzig. The required standard of accuracy for ...
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ArticleNew 3D scanning solution for co-ordinate measuring unit
AICON 3D Systems has unveiled Breuckmann StereoSCAN – an automated, 3D scanning tool for use with the company’s DPA co-ordinate measuring machine.The product is said to be able to handle measuring fields ranging from a few millimetres to one metre; according to AICON, an accuracy level of signifi cantly less ...
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ArticleVW hands out annual safety awards
Slovakia: Volkswagen has presented the 28th Occupational Health Trophy to its Bratislava site for being the company’s safest plant. The HTW-2/3 Pre-assembly department at Wolfsburg was also recognised as the best organisational unit.The October awards were presented at Volkswagen Bratislava in Slovakia.Michael Macht, member of the board of management of ...
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ArticleDitching the dirt at Ford
A European innovation which has been rolled out at Ford plants in the US European origins, American implementation Processing power & performanceAlmost every freshly painted surface on a vehicle will attract airborne contaminants; tiny particles of dust will stick to the wet paint and, as it dries, become part of ...
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ArticleInvesting in Izmit
Hyundai has recently updated 80% of the production line at its Turkish plant. AMS went to admire the automation Europe is overburdened with automotive factory capacity to the extent that over half of the region’s 160 car plants are running below 70% productivity, according to Q1 figures from analysts IHS ...
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ArticleAutomatic tyre label dispenser
Avery Dennison’s new automatic tyre labelling range includes tread labelling materials and thermal transfer (TT) vulcanisation labels, its says.The PP TYRE 55/60 Top White products use polypropylene fi lm to resist migration of low molecular-weight components and carbon black from the tyre surface, stopping the label from curling away. Initial ...
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ArticlePower monitoring and mitigation tools
Rockwell Automation has expanded its Allen Bradley portfolio to include i-Sense, i-Grid and DySC.The i-Sense voltage monitors can read incoming power, pinpointing voltage-based events, revealing correlations between voltage sags and downtime and enabling minimal mean time to repair (MTTR).Meanwhile, i-Grid logs analyses and corroborates i-Sense data via an Ethernet or ...
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Article‘Knobbly Jaguar’ is back on track
UK: Lister Cars is to reinstate production of the ‘Knobbly Jaguar' made famous during 1950s sports car racing, almost a quarter of a century after the last Lister rolled off the production line. George Lister Engineering of Cambridge, Brian Lister Light Engineering and Lister Storm have been united into ...