ASSEMBLY Magazine

Is robotic disassembly the answer to overflowing landfills?
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Appliance Manufacturer Uses Robots and AI to Disassemble Products Panasonic uses AI-powered robots to automatically disassemble appliances, enabling recycling, material recovery, and circular-economy sustainability.

Lockheed Martin has opened an 88,000-square-foot missile assembly facility in Courtland, Alabama, to support production of the Next Generation Interceptor for the Missile Defense Agency.

The purpose-built facility uses digital manufacturing tools, automation and data-driven workflows to support repeatable production of complex missile defense systems.

For aerospace and defense manufacturers, the key detail is how the plant was designed around the product from the start: streamlined workflows, reduced handling, tighter tolerances, connected design data, configuration control and quality assurance as production scales.

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Lockheed Martin Opens Missile Assembly Facility in Alabama COURTLAND, Ala. — Lockheed Martin has opened an 88,000-square-foot missile assembly facility in Courtland to support production of the Next Generation Interceptor for the Missile Defense Agency.

The push to localize battery production in the United States continues accelerating.

Anthro Energy and EnPower are partnering to scale domestic lithium-ion battery manufacturing, highlighting growing industry focus on supply chain resilience, U.S.-based production capacity and next-generation battery technologies.

As battery demand expands across EVs, electronics and industrial systems, manufacturers are increasingly looking to reduce dependence on overseas supply chains while strengthening domestic production infrastructure.

https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/100066-anthro-energy-enpower-partner-on-us-lithium-ion-battery-production

Anthro Energy, EnPower Partner on U.S. Lithium-Ion Battery Production BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Anthro Energy and EnPower Inc. have signed a master memorandum of understanding to jointly develop and scale domestic lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing for defense, robotics and autonomous systems applications.