Success Stories

Due to its mountainous topography, Italy is a country rich in road tunnels. In the Lombardy region, a new supervision and remote control system has been designed and implemented by …

With the new asynchronous linear motors LAE10 Baumüller offers a dynamic and precise solution for linear motion with long strokes as well as high speeds and acceleration. The new linear …

To ensure that every loaf on the supermarket shelf is the right weight, each individual loaf is weighed directly after leaving the oven and checked on a platform scale equipped …

Advanced DC drives from Emerson Control Techniques in America have been selected by Terminal de Contenedores de Yucatán (TCY), to modernise the control system on an ageing ship-to-shore crane in …

Upgrading to B&R servo technology and POWERLINK communication has helped Woojin optimize the speed and precision of three different lines of injection molding machines. In October, B&R and Woojin will …

Controlling and managing a complex system is difficult at any time. However, users in the process (ex. water, petro-chemical) and infrastructure industries such as surface rail, airports or underground metro …

China has more smokers than the United States has residents – about 350 million. China’s booming tobacco industry, which annually generates around 20 billion euros in taxes according to government …

When L’Oréal in Canada needed to set up a new production line for hair color products as fast as possible, the highlight of the solution was a new ABB robot …

Industrias del Espino, a producer of palm oil products in Peru, processes around 280,000 tons of the palm oil fruit per year. Waste water resulting from the production was previously collected …

If a machine is to be produced in series, the cost benefit of a microcontroller may outweigh the increased investment in programming. The capabilities of the cost-effective Simatic S7-1200 micro-PLC are impressively …

The Puerto Cortés container terminal is the main seaport in Honduras. It is capable of handling roughly 600,000 TEUs (twenty foot equivalent container units) per annum. The port is equipped …

A dynamic British company has harnessed the precision of robots, flexibility of machine vision and powerful laboratory automation software to push forward research into stem cells, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and genomics. …

For the installation of the new assembly line, the transmission manufacturer ZF in Friedrichshafen, Germany, needed an automation concept that would take the modular set-up of the plant into account. With integrated Simatic …

Müller Dairy, a European success story of product innovation and brand development, is now the UK’s largest yogurt producer. From its UK headquarters in Market Drayton, the business continues to …

In the drive to reduce packaging and its resultant waste, a specialist machinery builder has developed a pressureless queuing conveyor for collating quiches prior to baking. Western Mechanical Handling (WMH), …