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EV charging equipment

The Quest to Make EV Charging Components Safe

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Austin Weber
September 4, 2023

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), which is officially known as UL Solutions, has now turned its expertise to electric vehicle batteries and charging stations.


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Torque Sensor Checks Rotating Assemblies

Suzanne Gräser Bieri
August 29, 2023

A process monitoring system guarantees the functionality of mixing nozzles produced on automated assembly line.


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What’s New With Sensors

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John Sprovieri
August 11, 2023

Next-gen sensors are robust and easy to install.


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Servo Presses Ensure Quality of EV Axles

Force-displacement monitoring enables precision assembly of EV drivetrain components
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John Sprovieri
August 7, 2023

When it was making axles for gas-powered vehicles, Liuzhou AAM used hydraulic presses. However, axles for EVs were a different animal.


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VW Uses Robots to Assemble 300,000 Battery Packs Per Year

Some 100 six-axis robots weld, bond and package EV batteries at the FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co. Ltd. assembly plant.
July 25, 2023

FOSHAN, China—Some 100 six-axis robots weld, bond and package EV batteries at the FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co. Ltd. assembly plant here. The factory produces 300,000 battery packs annually.


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Digiforce 9307 automation controller

Instrument Monitors Multiple Process Variables

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John Sprovieri
July 3, 2023

The Digiforce 9307 monitors processes in which precisely defined functional relationships between two or more measured quantities need to be demonstrated.


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Design, Manufacture, and Test Efficiently in House

How One Canadian Company Does It
Jennifer Pierce
Jennifer Pierce
June 21, 2023

LAVA is a Ukrainian-Canadian company founded in 1984 that manufactures in Canada. In 2014, LAVA shifted to designing and building hardware for adapters that can do power and data simultaneously to tablet devices, turning them into much more B2B accessible devices and conditioning their batteries to get about six years of life.


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German Automation Firms Forecast Record Year

June 20, 2023

FRANKFURT, Germany—German suppliers of robotics and automation technology are forecasting record-high sales of 16.2 billion euros in 2023, an increase in sales of 13 percent. In 2022, the industry recorded sales of 14.3 billion euros, and increase of 5 percent.


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Dealing With the Helium Shortage

Assemblers that depend on helium for leak testing are looking for alternatives.
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Austin Weber
June 12, 2023

According to an old saying, “what goes up must come down.” Unfortunately, that’s not true for either a helium-filled balloon or helium used in leak testing applications.


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Adhesives and Dispensing

The Sticky Business of Adhesive Sourcing and Replacement

The process of identifying alternative sources for adhesives is more complex than that for other assembly components.
Douglas Corrigan, Ph.D. James Swope
June 1, 2023

In most cases, finding a second source for commodity parts, such as fasteners, is fairly straightforward. However, the process is more complicated with adhesives,


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