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Redundancy, Redundancy
From: Revere Control SystemsDescription: Designed-in redundancy from lessons learned assures reliability at this critical influent pump station ...
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Successful Project Meets Wastewater Treatment Growth Needs
From: Revere Control SystemsDescription: Integrate the automation of a wastewater treatment plant expansion with the upgrade of manual system serving the existing facilities. ...
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Water Treatment Plant, County-Wide Expansion-Bonita Springs, Florida
From: Revere Control SystemsDescription: Plant Monitoring and Control System: ...
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Bulk Bag Filler Automation
Description: Increasingly, manufacturers are recognizing the advantages of transporting dry bulk ingredients in flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs or bulk bags). The savings in ingredient costs, material ...
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Progressive Surface highlighted in GE's technology investment in Michigan
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: A recent GE Reports news article describes how Progressive Surface has provided special process machinery and technologies for GE's turbine engine programs over the years. Most recently, we installed ...
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Arthur G. Russell Co. and NTI Announce a Dual Break Through in Nano Fiber Production using New Die Design and Inexpensive Polymers.
From: Arthur G. RussellDescription: Dateline Thursday October 1, 2009 A series of tests at University of Tennessee lab under the direction of Dr. Gajanan Bhat produced nano-fibers in PP and two polyesters, PET and PBT. The latter are ...
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24/7 Technical Support Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: To ensure that a call never gets missed, two programmers are always on call at any given time. The customer's machine operators, technicians and engineers can always connect to an ATS support person ...
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ABS Brake System Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Anti-lock brake systems are of indisputable importance for vehicle safety. They can be found in modern cars through the whole range of various models and types. Manufacturers require that ABS device ...
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Diagnostic Slide Kit Assembly & Production Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A world leader in Clinical Chemistry Diagnostics approached ATS to develop a high speed, batch driven automation solution to match a quickly rising market demand. A leader in chemical diagnostic slide ...
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Diagnostic Strip Manufacturing Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A major test strip manufacturer wanted a high-volume, high-accuracy web based system to produce a new test strip design for development, clinical trials and eventual production. Our client needed a ...
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DVD Automation Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Our customer required a qualification build of five machines with complete design validation and full production factory acceptance test within 16 weeks of placing the order. Based on a successful ...
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Equipment Design Review & FMEA Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A US provider of medication handling systems to hospitals and long-term care facilities was failing to make significant progress on the alpha system for an innovative approach to medication ...
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Greenfield Plant Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A medical device manufacturer in Asia needed to build significant manufacturing capacity to support their marketing projections for a new product family. The Manufacturing Specialists at Pre ...
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High Speed Vision Inspection Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Our client needed inspection and verification of various key features of a part while running at high rates of speed, 130-250 parts per minute (ppm) continuously (on-the-fly). The parts are generally ...
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Liquid Dosing Innovation Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A major pharmaceutical manufacturer wanted to commercialize a new technology to integrate a liquid Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) into a solid tablet with the application of Process Analytical ...
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Lower Unit Cost Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Despite successful continuous improvement programs resulting in reduced manufacturing-related product costs, this global leader of high-volume medical devices was not satisfied. They needed capacity ...
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Mail Order Pharmacy Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: We reviewed the plant level requirements to define problem areas and find commercial solutions where possible. Areas requiring more complex solutions were targeted for custom designed solutions. We ...
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Manufacturing Strategy & Capacity Increase Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: The company was already operating at capacity and needed a manufacturing strategy to take them through 2013. We were engaged to develop the plan in collaboration with the client's staff. We collected ...
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Motor Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A leading consumer goods manufacturer developed a fully automated line for the motor of their product. ...
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New Product Concept with High Volumes Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: This company approached us for help with their manufacturing strategy. They specifically wanted to know: what product design changes would be required to meet their low cost manufacturing plan what ...
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OEE Improvement Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A UK-based company acquired a high-speed manufacturing line for the assembly and testing of an existing product in order to reduce costs and decommission older, slower equipment, and to free up ...
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Solid Dose Filling & Packaging Line Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Our customer's proposed package design had unique design elements that were not easily accommodated by readily available solid dose filling and packaging equipment. To offset the increased components' ...
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Transmission Control Body EOL Function Test Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: With the launch of a new generation of car transmission systems, the automotive industry required a state-of-the-art test technology for the implemented hydraulic mechatronic unit before it was ...
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Turbo Testing Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Our client was looking for expertise in test instrumentation and data collection as the basis for developing many unique and highly capable test fixtures. We successfully demonstrated to the client ...
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Application Success Story... ensures quality at manufacturer for blood collection needles
From: Arthur G. RussellDescription: Application Success Story... ensures quality at manufacturer for blood collection needles ...
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Application 005: Printing industry handling Barenschee, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Based in Luenebug, Germany, Barenschee is a leading manufacturer of prepress equipment for the print industry. The equipment is an important link between the editorial office and the printing press. ...
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Application 010: Food processing industry Unilever, Spain
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: In order to give the liquid mixture coming from the production facility time to solidify into ice cream, Unilever first enters the mixture into a freezing tunnel. The fresh ice cream cools down to ...
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Application 019: Beverage logistics Amatil Victorian Distribution Centre, Australia
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Coca-Cola experienced a number of issues with the original flow storage system which included pallets getting stuck on lanes, pallets descending uncontrolled causing damage to product, excessive noise ...
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Application 028: Textiles distribution Crystal S.A., Columbia
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Textile company Crystal S.A., whose socks and underwear grace women and men all over the world, is one of the driving forces behind the upswing in the commercial centre of Columbia. Business in ...
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Application 032: Stock replenishment Bosch, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Automotive components manufacturer Bosch supplies electrical and chassis components which can be found in virtually every part of the onboard power systems of cars. Bosch components are involved in ...
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Application 034: Packaging MachinesMarden Edwards, UK
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Based near Bournemouth, southern England, Marden Edwards is a second generation family business founded in 1962 to produce overwrapping machines (stretch wrappers) and associated product handling ...
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Application 035: Automotive Industry VW Wolfsburg, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Motor vehicle assembly is a process of cumulative logistic complexity given that the assembly lines are largely automated. The solution to the challenge of internal transfer of prefabricated ...
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Application 043: Food packaging Cora, Spain
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Who would have thought it? The strawberry is a genus of plants in the Rosaceae family (rose family). In fact, a ripe strawberry can be compared to the fruit of a rose turned inside out. But no one ...
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Application 044: Cosmetics distributionL'Oréal, South Africa
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: For L'Oréal, best-in-class warehousing and distribution goes without saying and is such a valuable resource that it is always under scrutiny to maximise efficiency and ease of operation. Innovation is ...
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Application 045: Distribution of consumer goodsEurospin, Italy
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: The state-of-the-art DC to the east of Verona comprises 30,000 square metres of space and is serviced by up to 300 trucks daily. Deliveries are received here directly from food and drink ...
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Application 046: Pallet FlowWaffel Löser, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Many sweet-toothed Germans and people all over the globe will be familiar with the products of the company from the Taunusstein town of Orlen from their early childhood. But hardly anyone has heard of ...
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Application 048: Food logisticsOsem, Israel
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: The principal shareholder of this publicly listed company is the Swiss food giant Nestlé. Together with Osem, Nestlé maintains research and development centres in Israel, distributes its own products ...
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Application 051: Video games distribution Game, France
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Up to 400 shipments or 4,000 boxes leave the Saint Denis distribution centre at peak times, the majority on pallets in boxes, each weighing a maximum of 20 kg. Deliveries are made to over 200 Game ...
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Application 053: Food processing (fish) grupo hrg, Spain
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Spain has the largest fleet of fishing vessels in the EU and accounts for around 23% of all the fish caught in the Community (491 000 tonnes in 2005) . Almost 500,000 people earn their living in the ...
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Application 054: Food processing Tipper Tie Technopack, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: When food products such as meat, sausages, poultry, fruit and vegetables and dairy products need to be packed quickly and straight away, fully automatic clipping machines from TIPPER TIE technopack ...
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Application 056: Food processing (meat) Clazing / Volta Belting, Netherlands
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Every week, Exportslachterij Clazing BV in Zevenhuizen processes 600,000 chickens, each weighing upwards of 1.6 kg, into fillets, drumsticks, joints and spare ribs, both for the downstream processing ...
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Application 057: Distribution Center Varta, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: The 15 decentralised warehouses built by Varta over the years were unable to keep up with the steady increase in demand. What's more, the classic paper-based order picking system was not only prone to ...
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Application 059: Distribution center DHL Bremen, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: It is said that marketing is the engine and logistics the drive behind economic success. If so, then 21st century mail order firms need to be absolutely sure they are 100% on top of their processes ...
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Application 062: Postal distribution center Itella, Finland
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: The layout of the sorting systems in the Helsinki and Tampere postal centres is not at all conventional. Throughput can be increased to up to 20,000 items per hour, if required, as two identical ...
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Application 065: Packaged supermarket grocery products Frisco, Poland
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Deliveries from the Polish online supermarket come direct to your kitchen table. Fresh fish, meat, fruit and vegetables, frozen food, bakery goods, drinks, washing powder, cosmetics - you name it - ...
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Application 066: Food Distribution Centre, Uesugi Farms, California/USA
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: The company Uesugi Farms in Gilroy, California/USA, produces, packages and ships paprika, chilli, Chinese cabbage, bok choy, squash and other vegetables. In 2010, the company increased the area under ...
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Application 067: Air cargo, X-ray inspection, Los Angeles International Airport LAX, USA
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: The challenge lay in the conception, design, manufacture and supply of a large number of specialty conveyors to carry cargo weighing up to three tons as smoothly as possible through an X-ray scanner. ...
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Application 068: Postal distribution center DPD, Germany
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Depot 150 of DPD Geopost Deutschland GmbH in Frechen, near Cologne, is the perfect place to find out how things work at the sharp end of package sorting. Here, an enormous worldwide parcel routing ...
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Application 069: Pharma distribution centre Hefame, Spain
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: In response to rapid growth, driven partly by the trend in Spain towards longer pharmacy opening hours, Hefame doubled the size of its Barcelona distribution centre in 2008 - to an impressive 5,265 m2 ...
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Application 070: Food Processing Armoric, France
From: Interroll CorporationDescription: Meralliance is France's Nr. 1 in salmon delicacies and fully exploits the capabilities of the new Interroll Synchronous Drum Motor. The Group's production plant Armoric in Quimper, northwestern ...
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Feedstuffs Automation Aids Traceability
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: IT has been rumored for nearly a decade that the Food & Drug Administration is going to require feed manufacturing facilities to be able to trace back ingredients in four hours, but adding to the ...
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Process Automation
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Upgrading your roasting plant is tricky business. On the one hand, the advantages of upgrading are always very palpable before any new equipment acquisitions are made. The entire plant may seem ...
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Tackle Product and Brand Counterfeiting using System Driven by Advanced Automation (.pdf)
Description: Part funded by the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board, the SecureTrace consortium, comprising some very well known blue-chip companies and academic institutions, had an aim to create a ...
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Fast and Accurate Splicing (.pdf)
Description: Designed to handle a large range of material sizes in both thickness and width, the Infinite Web is an automated laser based cutting and welding system for splicing strip alloys. Equipped with a PC ...
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Measure Angles on Rotating Systems with High Resolution
From: iC-Haus GmbHDescription: A common approach to measuring distance or angle in a rotating system is by using an incremental encoder or resolver. The majority of industrial applications, such as machines or drives, are dominated ...
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HLAW: The Future of Welding?
Description: As the welding industry continues its broad transition into automation, one process in particular stands out from the rest: hybrid laser arc welding (HLAW). According to Ed Hansen, welding automation ...
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Standardize Automation System Components for Smart, Strategic Asset Management (.pdf)
From: MISUMI USADescription: In this tight economy, industrial companies are seeking new ways in which to maximize productivity while driving down operating expenses, engineering and maintenance time and costs. Here's how some ...
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New Spiral Conveyors Save Space & Increase Throughput (.pdf)
Description: New advances in spiral conveyor technology offer significant productivity and operational benefits in a wide number of industries and applications where pace for material handling systems may be ...
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Traditional "Deep Lane" Application
Description: One of the underlying considerations with automation is always the condition of the load with particular emphasis on the condition of the pallet on which the load is transported. The inexpensive, ...
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Manufacturing Execution Systems for Sustainability (.pdf)
Description: This paper demonstrates how MES can help meet the challenges of sustainable production in addition to conventional uses. The methodology for extending the scope of MES to achieve energy efficiency and ...
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400% Increase in Production with Help from KSolutions
From: Kasa CompaniesDescription: Raw ingredient tracking was a big part of the project, as product recalls are always a potential in any food industry. Making sure the batching system was ISA S88.01-1995 or S88, compliant was a must. ...
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Minimat-E Screwdriving System Assembles
From: DEPRAG, Inc.Description: Ever had to brush your teeth between shivers because the previous bathroom user tilted the window open and forgot to close it again? Extremely unpleasant! The cold creeps into the bathroom and then ...
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The Foundry Sector - A Red-Hot Key Industry
From: SCHUNK Inc.Description: With 87,000 employees and sales of around €14 billion in 2007, the foundry sector is one of German industry's smaller branches. Its economic significance is large, however, because hardly any other ...
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Wonderware and Kontron Improve Factory Efficiency through Standards-Based, Pre-Integrated Automation and Control Systems (.pdf)
From: Kontron USADescription: One of the more time-consuming tasks of the factory control engineer is the installation, configuration and management of the automation and control software. The more time spent on such maintenance ...
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Perspectives on Sustainable Production: Delivering Economic Value and Serving Greater Good (.pdf)
Description: Rising prices and shortages of resources, whether of talent, dollars, energy, or materials, have re-written the economics of manufacturing. The unexpected downfall of some of the world's once-most ...
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Specifying the Ideal DC UPS for Industrial Applications (.pdf)
From: SolaHDDescription: Microprocessor-based industrial controls - PLCs, industrial computers, HMI, drives, motion controllers, and sensors - are the foundation of high productivity, quality, and competitiveness. If there is ...
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Total Power Quality Solution Approach for Industrial Electrical Reliability (.pdf)
From: SolaHDDescription: As industrial automation continues to evolve with the introduction of computer based control systems, the importance of AC power quality has never been higher. The inclusion of more sensitive ...
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Cross-Sectional Scanning Slashes Inspection Time and Labor (.pdf)
From: CGI InspectionDescription: Automation drives manufacturing. Yet, the final step in the process continues to be time consuming, labor intensive and tedious. However, one quality expert has found a way to automate first article ...
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How To Measure Equipment for Vibration Pads (.pdf)
Description: HOW TO MEASURE EQUIPMENT OR MACHINERY FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY...The LP-13 Shake Absorber® Vibration Isolation Pad can be cut to your specifi cations. Our pads are available in the following ...
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Symbol Reconstruction in Bar Coding Applications (.pdf)
Description: Industrial environments present many data capture challenges, some of which are damaged symbols, partially covered symbols, poorly printed symbols, and variation of label placement. Symbol quality, ...
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Useful Enhancements for Serial-to-Fiber Conversion
From: Moxa Inc.Description: Serial-to-fiber converters generally provide physical layer media conversion between one serial port and one fiber port. As industrial networking applications increase in complexity, additional ...
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Roll Drive Design Considerations for Steel Mill Rolling Operations (.pdf)
Description: The conveying system that links one process to another is the lifeblood of any rolling mill. Lose this ability to move product and you lose production. As anyone in the steel industry knows, if a ...
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Cleanroom - Comprehensive Certification at SCHUNK
From: SCHUNK Inc.Description: The importance and the use of cleanrooms is constantly on the rise, because miniaturization, micromechanics and nanotechnology, in addition to increasingly stringent requirements for high-quality ...
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Convenient Robot or Attractively Priced Spindle Gripper?
From: SCHUNK Inc.Description: Modern machining centers are used for machining of workpieces with maximum feed rates, minimum tool changing times and optimum cutting speeds. In comparison with these parameters, manual tool changing ...
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Packaging - A Package for Everything
From: SCHUNK Inc.Description: Packaging is a universal function that is required in practically every industry and meanwhile is so important that it has become a separate industry itself. The total volume on the world market for ...
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Pneumatics or Mechatronics? ... It All Depends!
From: SCHUNK Inc.Description: Compact, attractively priced, universally applicable. The JGP pneumatic gripper is an economical all-rounder with an outstanding price/performance ratio. 11-01-2008 - Pneumatic drives for grippers, ...
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Redundant Communication for Power Dispatch Control
From: Moxa Inc.Description: There are 3 main segments in power automation: generation, transmission, and distribution. In most power distribution systems, control centers acquire data from the remote RTU via networks. Each ...
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EIP Solution in CNC Machine Tools (.pdf)
Description: The CNC machine tool adopting EIP (Embedded Industrial Platform) features wide adaptability. If the object to be processed changes, you just need to change the program. Its processing ability is ...
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Industrial Automation
From: Lanner Electronics, Inc.Description: Automation plays an increasingly important role in the global economy, and the variety of computers and computer components for automation continues growing at an impressive rate. Manufacturers have ...
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Intralox: Automation - The Key to Achieving Speed-to-Market Capability (.pdf)
Description: Time - pressed customers are demanding faster service without having to sacrifice product quality. "Today, it's all about just-in-time manufacturing and speed-to-market capability," says Arvin ...
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Case Study: Dial Tool Saves Design Time with MISUMI Components
From: MISUMI USADescription: At Dial Tool Industries, Inc. (DTI) in Addison, Illinois, the Automation Division had long utilized a tried-and-tested system for equipment development. The three main elements they seek to satisfy on ...
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Guide on Shielding, Grounding, and Design Techniques in Factory Automation (.pdf)
From: ORMEC Systems Corp.Description: Multi-axis motion control servo systems contain digital and micro-processor circuitry that can be affected by Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI). They also contain high energy switching amplifiers ...
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The State of Industrial Serial Communication
From: Moxa Inc.Description: RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 have a long history in industrial automation. One of Moxa's most experienced engineers discusses the state of these legacy communication standards and how they are ...
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Massive Plant Upgrade Puts Flooring Manufacturer on Solid Growth Course
Description: If getting to the top of the ladder in the North American building products business means not letting the competition walk all over you, then you can't get much better living proof of this truism ...
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Quebec Machine-Builder Accelerates its Fast-Growing Ways with Progressive Approach to Modern Machine Design
Description: It's not much of a stretch to say that Wulftec International Inc. has done many things right in its 16-year history to become one of the world's leading designers, manufacturers and distributors of ...
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Service Robots: Robots in Service Gain Independence
From: SCHUNK Inc.Description: Fiction and reality become blurred. What was once science fiction is increasingly taking solid shape. Meanwhile, robots have a firm grip on industrial production. In Germany alone, more than 50,000 ...
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How To Justify Automating Your Application Process
From: Encore AutomationDescription: Applying liquid or powder materials to parts within a manufacturing process is fairly common. Often the application takes place manually, in which case the material is applied directly by workers on ...
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Eliminating Magnetic Interference from Brakes
Description: Avtron offers several solutions for mounting encoders on motors with brakes. Since the brake typically mounts on the accessory flange used for many encoders, we offer: ...
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Encoder Outputs Shouldn't Fail
Description: Each step up in the classification increases the durability of the encoder, its ability to withstand contaminants and abuse, and the ability to withstand bearing load (or elimination of bearings ...
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Low Cost Magnetic Encoders Solve Encoder Problems for Motor Manufacturers
Description: The sensor/rotor gap was extremely small, often less than 0.010", requiring precise adjustments and mounting. Old magnetic encoders were subject to "sensor crashes". Avtron's Wide-Gap technology in ...
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Anti-Sway Control for Overhead Cranes
Description: Whether modernizing an existing crane control system or commissioning a new crane, Avtron's crane industry solutions can help you maximize your crane productivity. Avtron crane control and crane ...
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Increasing Paper Machine Control and Reliability with PIV Upgrade (.pdf)
Description: Avtron has been providing innovative solutions to the Pulp and Paper Industry since the 1950's. Our solutions have helped paper customers improve productivity, reduce downtime and improve paper ...
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Rapid Deployment of Assembly Lines Using the Smart Distributed System
From: HoljeronDescription: The Smart Distributed System (SDS) offers companies that implement automated assembly lines the opportunity to cost effectively respond to high growth opportunities and quickly changing market ...
