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Genesis Packaging Technologies Raises Production Output 300% by Moving from Customized to Standardized Automation Platform

Genesis Packaging Technologies Raises Production Output 300% by Moving from Customized to Standardized Automation Platform

Using servos from Mitsubishi Electric Automation, a premier provider of vial capping equipment, shifted from a customized to a standardized motion platform. As a result, they’re meeting growing customer demand with shorter lead times, faster builds, and greater value for the end user – all at an attractive new price point. Now there’s no cap on company growth.
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ARL Service Transitions from Mechanical to Digital and Achieves Flexibility and Opportunities

ARL Service Transitions from Mechanical to Digital and Achieves Flexibility and Opportunities

ARL Service wanted to replace their metal cams in a grinding machine with digital cams to alleviate downtime and save on costs. Mitsubishi Electric Automation and Shaltz Automation provided a flexible system with intuitive programming capabilities using PLCs, Servos, VFDs, and HMIs.
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TL Aerotek Delivers Precision Components to Deliver Growth

TL Aerotek Delivers Precision Components to Deliver Growth

When TL Aerotek was receiving more orders than they could keep up with, they turned to Mitsubishi Electric Automation for an automated machine tending solution. LoadMate Plus delivered easy programming and precision to reach new levels of productivity.
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Southie Autonomy Achieves Code-Free Task Changeover in Minutes

Southie Autonomy Achieves Code-Free Task Changeover in Minutes

Southie Autonomy had a mission to make robotic solutions easy for everyone and turned to Mitsubishi Electric Automation for support. The solution provides customers with a robotic solution to achieve an efficient, affordable system for contract packaging.
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Customer Requirements Lead the Way

Customer Requirements Lead the Way

Equipment manufacturer for mixing and pumping concrete and gypsum, Strong Manufacturing, developed an all-electric machine fit to meet specific building regulations with help from Womack Machine Supply's hydraulic systems and Mitsubishi Electric Automation's automation components.
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Intelligent Automation Means Productivity and Precision

Intelligent Automation Means Productivity and Precision

Packaging machinery specialists, Balpack, were approached by a customer seeking an application to cap small bottles precisely and delicately. Balpack found programming expertise with HPE Automation and precision controls utilizing Mitsubishi Electric components.
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A Customer Had An Idea -- and Integrated Production Systems (IPS) Made It Happen

A Customer Had An Idea -- and Integrated Production Systems (IPS) Made It Happen

IPS Custom Automation was approached by a manufacturer who needed a new solution for producing anechoic foam. IPS turned to Womack Machine Supply for Mitsubishi Electric components to create a streamlined machine that combines all actions into a single device.
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Millennium Packaging Leans on Mitsubishi Electric Automation for Support through the Diamond Partner OEM Program

Millennium Packaging Leans on Mitsubishi Electric Automation for Support through the Diamond Partner OEM Program

When Millennium Packaging Inc. saw an opportunity to create an affordable cartridge-filling machine, they turned to Affiliated Control Equipment Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Automation to provide quality automation components and trusted support.
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ZAYER and Mitsubishi Electric Bring New Machining Solutions to US Market

ZAYER and Mitsubishi Electric Bring New Machining Solutions to US Market

ZAYER's advanced XIOS G 6-axis bed-type milling machine featuring Mitsubishi Electric’s M850 CNC platform delivers next-level cycle time performance, reliability, and ease of use, along with a human machine interface (HMI) that can be tailored to fit the customer’s needs.
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Affordable Solutions from Mitsubishi Electric Automation Provides Material Handling Systems Increased Performance and Safety with Overhead Cranes

Affordable Solutions from Mitsubishi Electric Automation Provides Material Handling Systems Increased Performance and Safety with Overhead Cranes

When HPE Automation was challenged with finding an affordable solution that would provide safety and efficiency to overhead cranes, they turned to Mitsubishi Electric Automation. An affordable anti-sway technology using VFDs brought a surplus of business to the customer.
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Haley Manufacturing Provides Automated and Robotic Solutions for the Agricultural Packaging Industry

Haley Manufacturing Provides Automated and Robotic Solutions for the Agricultural Packaging Industry

In an industry that’s ripe for the benefits of automation, a new robotics system will help produce packagers lower their costs and increase volumes, while reducing reliance on hard-to-find labor.
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Compatibility and Forward Migration of Mitsubishi Electric Products Help Keep Yupo Corporation America On the Cutting Edge

Compatibility and Forward Migration of Mitsubishi Electric Products Help Keep Yupo Corporation America On the Cutting Edge

Plastic paper manufacturer Yupo has used Mitsubishi Electric PLCs since 1989. The forward compatibility and reliable control are key reasons they continue to use them to this day. In a recent migration process, it was possible to port 1990s programs into a new platform and get everything running with minimal disruption.
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Air Clear LLC Uses Customized Package Drive Systems from Mitsubishi Electric for Pollution Control

Air Clear LLC Uses Customized Package Drive Systems from Mitsubishi Electric for Pollution Control

As pollution control machine manufacturer Air Clear was brought into a customer’s facility to develop an indoor pollution control system (a regenerative thermal oxidizer, or RTO), they worked with Mitsubishi Electric Automation to install and start-up FR-F800 package drives that could save space and communicate with their existing PLC.
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Full House Machinery Strengthens Competitive Edge with Modular CNC Programming from Mitsubishi Electric Automation

Full House Machinery Strengthens Competitive Edge with Modular CNC Programming from Mitsubishi Electric Automation

Full House Machinery, a family owned business run by three brothers from Florida, creates machines that make wood doors for commercial use. About a quarter of the residential and commercial wood doors in the US come off their machines. In order to keep that level of market share and competitiveness, Full House saw an opportunity to upgrade
their PC-based programming system with a CNC and PLC-based system
from Mitsubishi Electric Automation.
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SCYTEC and Mitsubishi Electric Automation Collaborate to Achieve Data-Driven Improvement of CNC Machines

SCYTEC and Mitsubishi Electric Automation Collaborate to Achieve Data-Driven Improvement of CNC Machines

CNC machines have a long life, and the competitive advantage they may have once offered when they were new can diminish as time goes on. That's why SCYTEC, with their DataXchange software, and Mitsubishi Electric Automation, with its IMA Adapter, collaborated to create a solution to quickly gather data that reduces cycle times, increases production throughput,
and shaves time wherever possible.
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Mitsubishi Electric Automation Combines Power and Precision Into Packaging Solution for Hamrick Manufacturing

Mitsubishi Electric Automation Combines Power and Precision Into Packaging Solution for Hamrick Manufacturing

When Hamrick Manufacturing was challenged with designing a new automated packaging solution from the ground up while working with limited space, they turned to Mitsubishi Electric Automation’s precision, compact servo products, FR-E800 micro-drives, and reliable service.
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ASSISTA Collaborative Robots Improve Safety & Efficiency at Hella Electronics

ASSISTA Collaborative Robots Improve Safety & Efficiency at Hella Electronics

Hella Electronics Corporation recently turned to Mitsubishi Electric Automation and Realtime Robotics to develop a unique solution for their current and future robotic automation needs. A “cobot” system enables multiple robotic arms to avoid collisions and work in close proximity to human employees. With visual programming and dynamic path planning, these technologies cut factory automation set up time from weeks or months down to just days.
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FCC (Adams) Vehicle Clutch Manufacturing Plant Increases Efficiency with Mitsubishi Electric Automation

FCC (Adams) Vehicle Clutch Manufacturing Plant Increases Efficiency with Mitsubishi Electric Automation

FCC (Adams), a Japanese vehicle clutch manufacturer with a manufacturing plant in Berne, Indiana, improved their visualization and reporting process on one of their production lines through the help of Mitsubishi Electric. The end result allowed the plant to become more cost-efficient and simplified the process for everyone involved.
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ShopSabre and Mitsubishi Electric Automation Create Competitive Edge for End Users

ShopSabre and Mitsubishi Electric Automation Create Competitive Edge for End Users

ShopSabre, a leading CNC router machine manufacturer, was looking for a more dedicated control system for its end users without losing the ease of use and familiarity they had built up over the past two decades. The application team at Mitsubishi Electric Automation was put to the test to deliver a solution for ShopSabre - the M8 Series CNC control platform.
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 Seats Inc. Embraces Radical Reinvention, Guaranteeing Sewing Consistency

Seats Inc. Embraces Radical Reinvention, Guaranteeing Sewing Consistency

Seats, Inc., a prominent vehicle seating designer and manufacturer, had a need for programmable, industrial sewing machines with high-speed sewing and stitching that could handle 2800 stitches per minute. Mitsubishi Electric Automation had just the answer for this unique manufacturing process which is historically time-consuming.
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JR Machine Uses Automation to Produce More, With Limited Space

JR Machine Uses Automation to Produce More, With Limited Space

JR Machine had reached the limits of their production capacity. Space constraints in their manufacturing facility made physical expansion impossible, so they turned to automation to improve efficiency and reduce downtime. Integrating Mitsubishi Electric M700 CNC controls into their multitasking lathes helped the company dramatically reduce setup and cycle times.
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Custom Engineering and High Performance VFDs Score Success for Hunter Fan

Custom Engineering and High Performance VFDs Score Success for Hunter Fan

Hunter Fan has been a leader in the industrial fan market since 1886, when it invented the world's first ceiling fan. Still an innovator generations later, Hunter Fan enlisted the help of Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. when they introduced their new line of HVLS (high-volume, low-speed) fans for both industrial and commercial use. The two companies’ synergy led to some impressive breakthroughs.
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World Wide Fittings Streamlines Operations with Mitsubishi Electric Robotic Solutions

World Wide Fittings Streamlines Operations with Mitsubishi Electric Robotic Solutions

World Wide Fittings (WWF) was looking for a turnkey automation solution to help them continue to manufacture domestically. A robotic automation solution from Mitsubishi Electric streamlined their operations, while boosting competitive edge.
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Rock-Solid Elevator Reliability With VFDs

Rock-Solid Elevator Reliability With VFDs

Waupaca Elevator Company out of Wisconsin is a manufacturer of residential elevators and dumbwaiters. They demand rock-solid reliability for their specialized lift systems. That’s what they got with Mitsubishi Electric controls and drives.
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ACS and Mitsubishi Electric Help Manufacturer Integrate Quality, Performance, and Compatibility

ACS and Mitsubishi Electric Help Manufacturer Integrate Quality, Performance, and Compatibility

Systems integrator ACS was looking for a solution for one of its customers, a semi-trailer manufacturer, that wanted to simplify its maintenance processes. They decided to make a full switch to PLCs only from Mitsubishi Electric.
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Bowling Green Municipal Utilities Seamlessly Transitions to Superior VFDs

Bowling Green Municipal Utilities Seamlessly Transitions to Superior VFDs

When Bowling Green Municipal Utilities (BGMU)’s patriotically painted water tower began to experience sporadic amperage spikes, they underwent what they called the Stars & Stripes Water Project. The water tower was decommissioned, repainted, and retrofitted, while a method was devised to maintain water pressure for the pressure zone it served.
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Automated Palletizing Delivers Advancements for Fast-Growing Grupo Fortec

Automated Palletizing Delivers Advancements for Fast-Growing Grupo Fortec

As Grupo Fortec, a manufacturer of construction materials such as ceramic adhesive in Mexico, underwent a period of rapid growth, they implemented a large-format robot palletizing solution from Mitsubishi Electric. It replaced what was currently a manual process to improve productivity and keep employees safer and healthier.
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BW Integrated Systems' Smart Decision Keeps Streamfeeder Innovative

BW Integrated Systems' Smart Decision Keeps Streamfeeder Innovative

When parts on BW Integrated Systems’ best-selling Streamfeeder feeding solution were beginning to become obsolete, they looked to Mitsubishi Electric to replace servo and drive components. As they did so, they found that replacing their entire control cabinet with Mitsubishi Electric controls would result in a more versatile and profitable feeder.
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Accuracy, Traceability & Repeatability Key to Haptic System’s Success

Accuracy, Traceability & Repeatability Key to Haptic System’s Success

Battenberg, a company that uses robotics to test and analyze a car's control elements, required top-end accuracy, traceability, and repeatability for their system. Mitsubishi Electric's robotic solution excelled far beyond Battenberg’s requirements for accuracy, and provided repeatability for iterative test sequences, as well as traceability, allowing comparison of test results from location to location.
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Bastian Solutions Pulls Off an Engineering Feat and an Industry First

Bastian Solutions Pulls Off an Engineering Feat and an Industry First

Bastian Solutions knew a standard crane wouldn't cut it for their new AS/RS system. Learn how Mitsubishi Electric helped to accomplish an impressive engineering feat.
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reACTIV Laser Systems Defines Forward Migration and Backward Compatibility

reACTIV Laser Systems Defines Forward Migration and Backward Compatibility

reACTIV Laser Systems, a laser system OEM, needed a seamless servo upgrade. With Mitsubishi Electric's compatibility and forward migration, that's what they got.
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"Answering the Call" Controlling airflow is critical with an airborne disease like COVID-19

In April 2020, a 3,000-bed field hospital was built in Chicago to combat COVID-19. Mitsubishi Electric drives were used to control critical airflow.
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Rocheleau Tool’s Blow Molding Machines “Only Have to Run Forever”

Rocheleau Tool’s Blow Molding Machines “Only Have to Run Forever”

Rocheleau, a blow molding machine OEM out of Massachusetts, has a company motto: “fear no task”. It goes back four generations for the Rocheleau family, and it’s not just a statement. It’s a challenge: to innovate and make better products that bring new benefits to customers. And since the 1980s, Mitsubishi Electric has been their trusted partner.
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Reinventing the Off-Line Label Rewinder with Mitsubishi Electric Equipment and Technology

Reinventing the Off-Line Label Rewinder with Mitsubishi Electric Equipment and Technology

Web Techniques recently implemented a revolutionary system that ensures accurate counting of label stock. See how their revolutionary system has helped their customers accelerate ROI.
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Ossid machinery improves reliability and performance with Mitsubishi Electric Automation portfolio

Ossid machinery improves reliability and performance with Mitsubishi Electric Automation portfolio

Learn how Ossid, a tray packaging equipment OEM whose machines are primarily used in the poultry, produce, and red meat industries, met increasing customer demand due to advancing technology with Mitsubishi Electric’s precision PLC and servo systems.
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T-ROC Equipment improves made-to-measure box system with Mitsubishi Electric Automation solution

T-ROC Equipment improves made-to-measure box system with Mitsubishi Electric Automation solution

Learn how Mitsubishi Electric products helped T-ROC Equipment, a box machine manufacturer, automate their process, increasing efficiency, reducing waste, and saving a significant amount in shipping costs.
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kmV iSight Systems adds 180° product repositioning capabilities to their vision inspection machines, greatly expanding value for customers

kmV iSight Systems adds 180° product repositioning capabilities to their vision inspection machines, greatly expanding value for customers

kmV iSight's vision inspection machines leverage Mitsubishi Electric controllers, simple motion modules, and servos to rotate bottles on the fly into precise position for inspection, resulting in a precise inspection system running at a rate of 100 feet/min.
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When three-phase power is unavailable, D&E Equipment uses Mitsubishi Electric VFDs

When three-phase power is unavailable, D&E Equipment uses Mitsubishi Electric VFDs

Mitsubishi Electric variable frequency drives allow a single-phase system to run three-phase motors on customized farm infrastructure solutions, providing a more power-efficient and economical solution over phase converters.
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Unique Machine turns

Unique Machine turns "100% Mitsubishi Electric" into a Profitable Competitive Edge

Transitioning from a hodge podge of products from different automation providers to 100% Mitsubishi Electric components in most of their machines has given Unique a big advantage – even more confidence that they are delivering an outstanding product.
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Mitsubishi Electric helps Oliver upgrade existing slicing machine: better HMI and evolution from PCBs to PLCs pave the way for new market opportunities

Mitsubishi Electric helps Oliver upgrade existing slicing machine: better HMI and evolution from PCBs to PLCs pave the way for new market opportunities

Well familiar with Mitsubishi Electric quality and value, Oliver Packaging & Equipment spec’d a Mitsubishi Electric human machine interface screen (HMI) and a PLC in their newly redesigned Varislicer 2005.
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Miller Process Coating Company optimizes machine performance with Mitsubishi Electric components and service

Miller Process Coating Company optimizes machine performance with Mitsubishi Electric components and service

Long dissatisfied with their controls suppliers, Miller found local distributor Proud Company, who swore by the quality of Mitsubishi Electric products for their applications. This provided the high quality support service that Miller had been lacking.
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ISSI revolutionizes the bagged ice palletizing process with EVOLUTION — designed from the ground up using CC‑Link communication protocol and all Mitsubishi Electric components

ISSI revolutionizes the bagged ice palletizing process with EVOLUTION — designed from the ground up using CC‑Link communication protocol and all Mitsubishi Electric components

It’s simpler, cleaner and easier to wire and there’s no more lag in communication between components that can be a drag on palletizer operating speed.
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RR Floody’s Flexible Feeder System pairs Mitsubishi Electric robot and Cognex vision system for fully integrated, “best of both worlds” solution

RR Floody’s Flexible Feeder System pairs Mitsubishi Electric robot and Cognex vision system for fully integrated, “best of both worlds” solution

Fully integrated in-house and “85% ready to go out of the box”, promises to offer significant benefits for manufacturing operations concerned about the impact of shortening product cycles.
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IPSUMM’s New Flexible, Scalable IRIS Production Cells Promise to Revolutionize Conventional Manufacturing Processes

IPSUMM’s New Flexible, Scalable IRIS Production Cells Promise to Revolutionize Conventional Manufacturing Processes

The IRIS backbone allows manufacturers to switch quickly among manufacturing tasks as diverse as picking, painting, assembly, packaging, vision inspection and more, on the same line, with a simple change of a “plug and play” tool and picking a new recipe.
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Mitsubishi Electric Helps Rain Bird Corporation Expand Into Profitable New Markets

Mitsubishi Electric Helps Rain Bird Corporation Expand Into Profitable New Markets

Rain Bird wanted to compete more effectively in applications where lower flow rates of about 100-140 gallons per minute were required with a fully featured packaged pump station solution.
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Versatech and Mitsubishi Electric Partner to Offer Innovative Energy Management Solutions

Versatech and Mitsubishi Electric Partner to Offer Innovative Energy Management Solutions

Versatech, LLC is a multi-faceted engineering company that has been meeting an escalating customer need by offering energy management solutions among their data management solutions, providing significant cost savings for large industrial facilities.
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Thermoformer Packaging Incorporates Best-in-Class Performance with Mitsubishi Electric PLC Control

Thermoformer Packaging Incorporates Best-in-Class Performance with Mitsubishi Electric PLC Control

When VC999, a leader in machine design, developed their i-Series thermoformer packaging machine, they needed reliable, consistent control from a reputable PLC provider.
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Vision Inspection Integration with Mitsubishi Electric HMI’s and PLC’s

Vision Inspection Integration with Mitsubishi Electric HMI’s and PLC’s

kmV iSight Systems wanted a new control platform for their products that reduced software engineering and introduced visual display control in-line with a vision control system seamlessly.
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Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link Automates Elephant’s Habitat Gates at the Zoo

Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link Automates Elephant’s Habitat Gates at the Zoo

A municipal zoo in upstate New York constructed a new habitat for their elephants and wanted to automate the giant, hydraulically operated gate system that controlled the elephant’s movement within the facility.
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