Case Study

In the late 1950s, Harvey Asmus introduced a new way to farm. Chemical weed control was not a foreign concept, but it certainly wasn’t adopted by the masses who still believed in cultivating the way it was done for...

Removing wipes, rags, plastics, hair and other stringy material at the headworks of a WWTP is very important. A traditional ¼” (6.0mm) screen will remove some of this material but as any operator knows a lot will still pass...

For many years, diffusion bonding has been utilized to join high strength and refractory metals that are either difficult or impossible to weld by other means. The process, which involves applying high temperature and pressure to similar or dissimilar...

Parcel shipping is growing worldwide, and Austria is no exception of course. One of the reasons for this growth is the enormous increase in online orders. Customers want their orders to arrive ideally on the same day, delivered right...

Silence… The sound no manufacturing general manager wants to hear. When a power transformer that supplies a plant goes bust, everything comes to a grinding halt. At such times the only thing audible is the sound of net profit...

For most businesses, automated quality assurance systems such as machine vision are rarely promoted as competitive advantages, much less as revenue centers. Instead, quality control activities often fall into the same category as risk mitigation, IT security, and maintenance...

You will find it everywhere: In the piping used in the oil and gas industry, in components for shipbuilding, in the production equipment used in the foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals industries, in banister rails or on the facades of buildings....

Acceleration of design and related processes through integrative systems exemplified by piping design and manufacturing with Solid Edge and Smap3D Plant Design. With a stunning implementation; topped off with a big dose of euphoria. Krones AG is in high demand...

SCHOTT unique material handling inspection with the OnRobot RG2-FT Gripper. Even back then, Otto Schott was considered a pioneer in the science of glass, and SCHOTT AG, the company he founded, continues to break new technological ground today. In the...

Developed as an open-standard wireless networking technology, WirelessHART process field devices are most often powered by batteries.   However, with hundreds – even thousands – of these devices at a single plant site, the cost and resources to replace batteries...