Manufacturing Business Technology - May 1, 2001
Cover Story
Ready for wireless?
Seattle-based Boeing needed a way to monitor the pressure of the rivets being punched into the wing-skin of its 747 airliners. The rivet device in the manufacturing plant is suspended on a block-long track that swings out over the wing. How on earth do you hard-wire an impact sensor across a constantly moving apparatus? Wires? Who needs wires?"Physically, it was impossible to hard-wire it...
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- Back talk
- The next battle
- Issue Analysis
- Tech sector's slowdown brings on an IT balancing act
- Issue analysis
- High-tech sector faces big challenges
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- Features
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- More spokes on the wheel
- Make
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- Plan
- If at first, try again
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- Information equals power
- Industry focus
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