The £22 million Proving Factory in Coventry provides process development and ‘proving volume’ production of low-carbon technology automotive components and systems. A flexible manufacturing cell, complete with Kanban storage, was designed and built by MiniTec UK as part of the facility’s original equipment.
Marquardt GmbH recently converted every signal tower at its Rietheim-Weilheim plant into a machine data collection and monitoring system - and gained a ten percent increase in manufacturing efficiency as a result.
A few years ago, WERMA became involved in an application involving the use of an LED beacon to signal purchasing problems at unmanned retail cash desks.
WERMA and Total Protection - two Northamptonshire based companies - pool their expertise to improve the safety of operators at a South Wales chemical plant.
Machines and production cells that need to accommodate future expansion will require a flexible safety control system. Banner Engineering's new XS26-2, now available in the UK from Turck Banner, combines this flexibility with a highly intuitive programming interface.