Machine Builder Spotlight Videos
Watch Engineers Like Yourself Give Firsthand Tours of Their Machines and the Controls That Make Them Work
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If seeing is believing, then our spotlight series will make a witness out of you. This ongoing series of videos features controls engineers at OEMs from all over the world.
Machine Builder Spotlight: Kiva Systems’ Mobile Robotic Drive Units
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Peter Blair, director of marketing and communications, and Pete Mansfield, engineering fellow, hardware systems, explain the distributed intelligence that makes Kiva Systems’ pick–pack–ship solution an empowered material–handling device. |
Machine Builder Spotlight: Jobs' LinX Milling Machine
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Antonio Dordoni, sales & marketing director at Italian milling machine builder, Jobs, explains the reasons behind including linear motors on the x, y and z axes on its LinX machines. |
Machine Builder Spotlight: ATS Supertrak
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Laurence Oldacre, senior director, business development, and Javan Taylor, product manager, products and engineering services, of ATS Automation Tooling Systems take us on a tour of the automation and technology in the Supertrak pallet conveyance system from ATS. Running time: Approximately 13 minutes. |
Machine Builder Spotlight: Sunnen Products’ SV 1015
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Interview with Sunnen Products Chief Technology Officer Russ Jacobsmeyer at the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2008 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The video shows a hands-on demonstration of SV 1015 honing machine and an explanation of its controls and automation. Video duration: Approximately 11 minutes. |
Machine Builder Spotlight: Sonderhoff USA's DM 403
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Sonderhoff USA's Holger Huelsken, president and CEO, and Thole Fuhrmann, service and machine engineer supervisor, give us a history of the form-in-place gasket, as well as a hands-on explanation of the DM 403, which Sonderhoff exhibited at National Manufacturing Week. Running Time: Approximately 6 minutes. |
Machine Builder Spotlight: Modern Process Equipment's IMD 99 Granulizer
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Brian Thomas, controls engineer at Modern Process Equipment, takes some time at the International Powder & Bulk Solids show in Rosemont, Ill., to demonstrate the controls and automation that make the IMD 99 Granulizer work. Video duration: Approximately 11 minutes |
Machine Builder Spotlight: Automation Comes Clean
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Interview with Schenck AccuRate Applications Engineer Todd Messmer and Development Controls Engineer Ron Tump at the International Powder & Bulk Solids show in Rosemont, Ill. It shows a hands-on demonstration of the controls and automation in Schenck AccuRate's feeders. Video duration: Approximately 10 minutes |
Machine Builder Spotlight: Automation Comes Clean
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John Broadbent, production engineer at Ellis Corp., takes us for a spin inside the company's standard and custom-designed industrial washer/extractors. In a live demonstration at Ellis' headquarters in the Chicago suburbs, we get a firsthand view of the controls and automation that Ellis uses in its machines.
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