Success Stories

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), …

A start-up company’s biggest challenge is convincing the market of the quality of its solutions. Sixteen years ago, the Italian systems manufacturer DOTECO successfully gained a foothold in the plastics …

Using zenon, Sacmi built a combined machine that handles PET bottle blowing, filling and capping operations in record time. Use of vector graphics and wizards to create and modify objects has enabled …

The United States has experienced a craft brewing renaissance in recent years. An ever increasing number of Americans attach importance to unique and special types of beer, resulting in an …

Investment in two new six axes robots has helped Certwood Limited to become a competitive option to offshore trade moulders. Increased accuracy, flexibility and the innovative application of two FANUC …

Chinese port operator HIT uses rail-mounted gantry cranes to move containers. These highly automated cranes are integrated in a terminal management network to optimize the turnaround of incoming and outgoing …

Two lines at one of the UK’s biggest paper mills have recently been updated with new AC drives from Control Techniques. SCA’s Trafford Park paper mill in Manchester produces a …

Lapp GmbH Kabelwerke is a leading provider of cables, leads, and cable accessories. By implementing state-of-the-art system technology in a retrofi t, the company achieved a considerable increase in cable production effi …

Mespic, with headquarters in northeast Italy, has worked with Omron to develop innovative all-in-one packaging solutions that end-users now demand, and that successful machine makers strive to provide. A recent …