Gestamp Automoción now saves up to $174,000 annually after replacing its automotive stamping press line's hardwired system.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Wireless I/O Stamps Out Downtime on Auto Press
Cover Story
- Think Outside the Green Box — To help meet manufacturers' needs while boosting profits and being socially responsible, machine builders can and should participate in sustainable production initiatives.
Features
- OEM Rolls Out Lean Machine — Tissue converting machine builder cut costs and boosted production and customer satisfaction by standardizing its control platform.
- Standards Align OEM and End-User Goals — Modular programming concepts help simplify machine design.
- No Time to Stop — Converting machine builder helps disposable product manufacturerupgrade to an integrated solution while keeping production lines running.
- OEM Has Customer Expectations in the Bag — CMD Corp. improves bag-making process and cuts costs with Logix Control Platform and Kinetix Integrated Motion.
- A Beautiful Distribution Solution — Material handling OEM helps to more than double Avon’s conveyor system throughput with control technology.
- Industrial Control Panel Code Update — Know the 2008 NEC updated industrial control panel definitions and requirements for marking short-circuit current ratings.
- How to Evaluate Critical VFD Cable Parameters — The VFD cable you select can improve overall drive system longevity and reliability by minimizing the impact of reflected waves on the drive system.
- 12 Steps to Great Alarm Management — Learn how to effectively use alarm management solutions to improve plant safety, reliability and profitability.
Tech Tips
- Troubleshoot Managed Switch Ethernet Issues — Save time by knowing what kind of problems can occur.
- Expedite Common Control Tasks — Reduce design time and costs.

