Cover Story
- Stand Out From the Crowd — Using a Total Value Partnership, OEMs can differentiate themselves from the competition and boost innovation, throughput and performance.
Features
- HK Systems Helps Revitalize Ford Assembly Plant — Ford’s automated storage and retrieval system is updated with ControlLogix PACs and PowerFlex drives, increasing diagnostics while simplifying system design.
- Machine Builders Get a Boost — With changing economics and shrinking corporate engineering departments, users are shifting the responsibility for automation strategies to OEMs.
- Pressure? What Pressure? — Off-the-shelf components help a machine builder slash time to market by 50 percent.
- Robot Control Made Easier — Logix kinematics for robot control delivers significant performance and cost-saving benefits to packaging industry OEMs and users.
- Labeled a Winner — Panel solutions help WS Packaging Group’s customers benefit from faster lead times on labeling machinery.
- The Power of Flow — Material-handling integrator boosts distribution center sortation rate by 50 percent.
Tech Tips
Technology Watch
- A Sweet Vision — A vision sensor system helps confectioner achieve error-free wafer packaging.
- It’s All About Collaboration — The key to an integration project is using teamwork to define and attain project success.
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