Tool manufacturers are improving all aspects of their tools, including the shape, size, weight, balance, torque, vibration, speed, and noise. Manufacturing industries, with diverse fastening ...

Connected tools have transformed construction and assembly worksites over the last thirty years, enhancing task efficiency, workflow, and worker safety. Early tool connectivity implementations were ...

Let's take a few seconds here to think. If you played baseball, would you show up to a game without a set of cleats? If you went to the lake, would you forget the boat? No, of course not. Why, then, ...

Installing a thread protector onto exposed threaded pipe on oil tools is a difficult and time consuming job. Currently no automation technologies perform this operation in industry because of the ...

You’ve finally decided to take the plunge and build a board with surface-mount parts. After carefully dispensing the solder paste with a syringe, it’s time to place the parts. You take up your trusty ...

Gerard Vacio, Workholding Product Manager at BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling, has some good advice for managing toolholder assemblies: The relationship of the tool to the toolholder is just as important ...

All materials for the workshop including presentation files, submitted papers, and recordings of workshop sessions are available for download via a publicly accessible Google Drive folder. Videos of ...