Thursday, March 28, 2024

Farewell, trusted hot stamping machines

Binder + Wöhrle is convinced that inevitably, the time comes for even the most tried and tested technology to retire. The manufacturer of plastic pipes, profiles, and Bowden cables, which are used in cars from VW among others, has...

Yellow Jacket Case Study – Orbital Stretch Wrap System

A leading manufacturer of A.S.M.E & standard tank heads, hot-formed tank heads, cones, manways and rolled shells, needed a way to wrap heavy, odd-shaped loads while the pallet remains on the forklift. Varying in size and material, tank heads...

Maintenance free UR cobots operate continuously in harsh environment

“It simply looked too clean.” That was Juan Puente’s first thought as he researched the robot arms from Universal Robots. Puente is the thermal spray supervisor at Aircraft Tooling Inc. (ATI) in Dallas, Texas. The company was looking into...

Taking Batteries out of the Cost Equation for WirelessHART Networks

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...

No Time to Lose When a Power Transformer Fails

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...
Cognex, Radix, MVA Stratford

Flexible Plastic Mold Inspection System Wins New Business for Component Supplier

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...

To bend or not to bend – that is the question!

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...

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