Among the biggest challenges in a high-mix environment is that production needs may swing 50% from one day to the next, says Dorner Manufacturing CEO Terry Schadeberg. Lean is a management philosophy ...

Whether in a production job shop or other high mix manufacturer, many machine shop managers think their automation options are limited due to all the variability of their parts that are run in ...

Automated optical inspection (AOI) has gone through a number of evolutionary steps and, with each increment, improved the value delivered to electronics manufacturers as an element of an overall test ...

Susan Shepard A fully integrated manufacturing service offered by Federal Electronics (Cranston, RI; www.federalelec.com) puts together four key electronics production processes. The combination of ...

High-mix, low-volume (HMLV) manufacturing refers to industrial operations that produce many different products or components in relatively small quantities. These companies all engage in a ...

Today, flexibility is a requirement for all successful manufacturers, but it is particularly important for high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) manufacturers whose machinery and equipment must often handle ...