Chad Industries to Provide Additional HarnessMate Systems to Boeing.The Systems Help Improve Efficiency of Wire Harness Production at the Aerospace Company's Electrical Product Center in Mesa, Ariz. ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Chad Industries Inc. today announced it has received an order from Boeing for 10 HarnessMate semi-automated wire insertion machines. Boeing already uses 15 of the portable, laser-guided connector assembly systems at its Electrical Product Center in Mesa, Ariz. There, the aerospace company produces wire harnesses for some of the world's most advanced military aircraft including the F-15 Eagle, F/A-18 Super Hornet hornet: see wasp. , AH-64D AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopter, D version, with Longbow radar improvements Apache Longbow longbow Leading missile weapon of the English from the 14th century into the 16th century. Probably of Welsh origin, it was usually 6 ft (2 m) tall and shot arrows more than a yard long. and the C-17 Globemaster III. Boeing has ordered the 10 additional machines to further support productivity improvements. "To be effective, Boeing needs to sustain high rates of production without losing quality," said Fred Edman, manager of Manufacturing Research & Development at the Mesa facility. "Tools that increase throughput without compromising quality are essential in our increasingly competitive business environment." Boeing was already using Chad Industries bench units in its wire harness assembly operations, but it needed a more compatible solution for its Lean moving production line. Several years ago, Boeing and Chad Industries partnered to develop the portable HarnessMate unit, which helps operators perform their job 30 to 40 percent faster. Along with efficiency, the engineers designed HarnessMate with ergonomics ergonomics, the engineering science concerned with the physical and psychological relationship between machines and the people who use them. The ergonomicist takes an empirical approach to the study of human-machine interactions. in mind, by providing laser-guided illumination of the insertion points Insertion point may refer to:
"The cooperation and creative effort put forth by the Boeing and Chad Industries engineers who developed HarnessMate has resulted in an innovative harness assembly tool," said Scott Klimczak, president of Chad Industries. Chad Industries designs, manufactures and markets automation equipment for the Circuit Board Assembly, Semiconductor and the Harness industries. CHAD began operations in 1973 and established leadership in the electronics assembly for odd-form component to printed circuit assembly (CHAD IQ[TM] Product Line), and has expanded their solutions expertise to include semiconductor, fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , and life sciences solutions. |
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