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BUSINESS 4.0 Want to be Data-Driven? It's Not About the Tech By: Andrea Belk Olson, MSC CEO of Pragmadik

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TALKING SHOP Mike Gamache Gamache Systems, a Division of Metalcraft of Mayville, Business Development Manager

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MANUFACTURING SHOWCASE

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Combilift By: Russ Willcutt

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Goodbye, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu See Ya Down The Road

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

America’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Allows For Reduced Restrictions

Experiences to Inspire the Future Workforce

NEW TECH Conquering Challenging Material Handling Scenarios

DEPARTMENTS

OnRobot launches their advanced magnetic gripper and the world’s most powerful vacuum gripper for precise material handling

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SAFETY & MAINTENANCE Vaccination Guidelines

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By: Randy Pearson, Director of CNC Training, Siemens

Global doughnut maker is a machine builder first

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Enhanced Robotic Welding Solutions

American shipbuilder halter marine orders numerous Inrotech welding robots

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Somehow, high school reunion time has rolled around again. It begins with the usual culprits, but if you hold your breath long enough it will generally fade away. I thought the pandemic, and our inability to predict its course, would at least factor into how we would approach such a thing, but it turns out I’m in the minority, and I’m even dredging up a little anger and resentment. Still getting used to being back in the Old South, I guess… sigh. So I guess I’ll play along and wait until early fall – just before this reunion is to take place during Homecoming weekend in October – in order to reexamine the health landscape.

In the meantime, I’ve truly enjoyed catching up with people I haven’t spoken with in so long who once meant so much to me; which, I guess, indicates they still mean a lot to me. It’s fascinating to learn what they’ve ended up doing with their lives – some things seeming inevitable, in retrospect, and others wildly beyond what you would’ve ever dreamed. A private international charter pilot? A surgical assistant heavily involved with his dogs as care animals? Lawyers, military experts? It’s just awesome. And it makes me think about how each of us change throughout our lives – or have the ability to do so – as we work toward making our mark and earning our keep.

Girls I grew up with are now top women executives in finance and banking, and goofballs I played sports with in the gym and on the field started their own businesses and are tremendous successes.

While making these reconnections, though, I’ve come to learn that there are new barriers. When we were kids we didn’t talk about politics, or religion, or guns. As adults, these issues often define us, so it’s been a bit dicey to be engaged in a situation where we feel like we know each other so well, when we really don’t know each other at all these days. And we feel strongly about the personal parameters we’ve established.

This is a critical issue that comes into play in business, as well. During meetings and interviews, there are many dynamics to be aware of; is there a “power player?” onboard to be respected, or is there an even playing field with an understanding that mutual respect will be maintained? We all come from so many different backgrounds that it’s always a good idea to be cautious, read the signs, and remember that we’ve all evolved a great deal during the course of our lives, and in many different ways.

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Industry News Dynabrade CEO and President Hardy Hamann Retires

Gilman Precision Adds Sedona Cox to Business Development Team

Dynabrade, Inc announces the retirement of President and Chief Executive Officer Hardy Hamann.

His retirement will be effective March 31, 2021.

“Over the last four decades I have been able to live The American Dream.

I was privileged to work for some great companies that allowed me to live in various parts of the USA and make business friends around the world. I feel grateful for the opportunity to finish my career at Dynabrade”, states Hardy Hamann.

Mr. Hamann served as the 98th President of the Industrial Supply Manufacturers Association (now part of ISA) representing 550 North American Manufacturers in 2002-03. The next President of Dynabrade will be announced at a later date.

Gilman Precision, a manufacturer of customized linear and rotary motion systems, is excited to announce the addition of Sedona Cox to their team as a Business Development Specialist.

Ms. Cox will be building relationships within the Central region for Gilman Precision, including Ontario, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Based in Michigan, Ms. Cox will be able to quickly address customer needs utilizing a variety of communication methods.

Ms. Cox has extensive consultative sales experience, working with industries as varied as life sciences, water purification, transportation, and medical devices. Ms. Cox enjoys working closely with customers, partnering with them to put together the exact solution for their particular need. Ms. Cox commented, “I am very excited to be part of the Gilman Precision team. I look forward to building quality relationships within the Central territory, while continuing to provide our customers with high caliber products and service to match.”

Doug Biggs, VP Sales and Marketing, commented, “We are extremely excited to have Sedona join our Business Development team. It is rare to have the opportunity to hire someone of the caliber of Sedona, and we believe she will help both Gilman and our customers grow their respective businesses.”

U.S. Air Force to Standardize on Siemens’ Teamcenter as its Product Lifecycle Management Platform The selection of Teamcenter as the Air Force enterprise standard follows a 2019 indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract for $24.6 million to Siemens for licensing, maintenance and support.

Teamcenter, part of the Xcelerator™ portfolio from Siemens Digital Industries Software, is a modern, open and adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) solution that can help connect people and processes across functional silos by providing a digital thread for innovation. By leveraging Xcelerator, Siemens’ comprehensive, integrated portfolio of software, services and application development platform, the Department of Defense and the aerospace and defense industry have the ability to integrate disparate repositories of program data and effectively share product performance details at any time, from any location.

“We are incredibly proud to support the Air Force with a toolset that supports their digital journey and fundamentally enhances the way they can field capability with greater speed and agility,” said Tina Dolph, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies.

“By providing the Air Force and other defense agencies with a robust enterprise PLM solution, time-sensitive and actionable data can be accessed across the earliest phases of a system lifecycle, resulting in lower operational costs, fewer down times, and overall improved readiness.”

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Global Shop Solutions Celebrates 45 Years of Simplifying Your Manufacturing Founder Dick Alexander remained committed to family ownership of the business – no easy task in an industry where ERP software companies are bought, sold, merged, or acquired on a regular basis. To this day his vision of family ownership for generations to come remains alive and well within the organization.

“We take pride in 45 years of family ownership, and we plan on keeping it that way,” says Alexander. “Years ago we successfully transitioned from first- to second- generation ownership, an evolution that many family-owned businesses struggle to achieve.

In addition to myself, second-generation family members now occupy many key functional and departmental leadership roles in the company, including Research & Development, Finance, and Human Resources.”

Alexander credits the family ownership structure for much of the company’s long-term business success.

“Unlike most companies, our goal is not to maximize shareholder value,” says Alexander. “Instead, we focus on making sure our customers and employees are successful and happy. We want this

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value to radiate through all aspects of the business to ensure Global Shop Solutions is a long-term partner and employer.”

“Developing ERP software is what we do, but our mission is to simplify manufacturing and help make our customers more successful,” he concludes. “What makes Global Shop Solutions special to me is the relationships we have with the people who use our software. Many of them also run family-owned businesses, and they feel like friends rather than customers. Striving to be their trusted partner keeps us looking ahead to see what we need to do and where we need to go to help them succeed. It’s also part of what makes this job so enjoyable and rewarding.”

TDM Systems appoints new Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing TDM Systems, a leading provider of tool data management solutions for industry has announced the appointment of Jean-Paul Seuren as Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. The announcement was made by Dietmar Bohn, Managing Director. In his position, Seuren will be responsible for optimizing and expanding the sales structure of the company, while managing the sales performance of TDM Systems including service, administration and management of stakeholder relations to ensure

achievement of the overall company strategy. He will report directly to Bohn. Previously Seuren was Regional Director EMEA at Vero Software, a Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence company.

Bohn said, “The appointment of Jean-Paul Seuren as the new Head of Sales is a great opportunity for TDM. His experience as a sales professional will help communicate the advantages of TDM solutions even more successfully in both our existing and new markets."

REGO-FIX Strengthens Supplier Relationships with New OEM Manager To further enhance relationships within its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and machine tool dealer network, REGO-FIX has appointed Bryan Bannister as the company’s new OEM manager.

Based in the Milwaukee area, he will not only oversee all such business partnerships throughout North America, but will also support, assist and collaborate with REGO-FIX global OEM team members as needed.

Bannister comes to REGO-FIX with extensive manufacturing industry experience, including seven years at Seco Tools LLC as a technical sales engineer and OEM technical specialist overseeing relationships at Seco’s OEM and Machine Tool Dealer network.

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Want to be Data-Driven?

It's Not About the Tech By: Andrea Belk Olson, MSC - CEO of Pragmadik

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xecutives say that cultural challenges — not technological ones — represent the biggest impediment around data initiatives.

In a 2021 survey from NewVantage Partners, 92.2 percent of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. This represents an increase from an already high percentage of 80.9 percent of firms that named cultural challenges as the greatest impediment to success just four years ago.

If we've known this for a while, why are organizations continuing to struggle with becoming more data-driven? The main culprit

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is a lack of commitment and persistence. The long-game isn't sexy. Quick wins get more attention and recognition. However, changing your organizational culture and mindset is not an overnight endeavor. It's not just middle-management or front-line employees. Many leaders have this short-term mindset, which can thwart the success of culture shifts necessary to become a data-driven organization.

In addition, when undertaking this transformation, many leaders tend to think of 'data-driven' from a single perspective numbers. Data takes many forms. It can be observations, open commentary, or even dialogue. Not all data can be easily cataloged into spreadsheets and line graphs, and sometimes that data is the most valuable.

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When organizations define data narrowly, employees have a hard time understanding what data is valuable and what data is isn't. If your culture is geared towards only the statistically provable, you overlook many subtle insights that both customers and employees can capture and utilize to help grow and differentiate the organization.

If you want to really become more data-driven, it starts with creating a common understanding of what business challenges and questions you want and need answered. It's much more about the why than the what. The why drives purpose.

If form follows function, the next step is to work with and train employees to understand how to interpret data, how to avoid evaluation bias, and how to ask critical questions about conclusions.

The goal is to create a culture driven by exploration, curiosity, and a drive to learn.

Thirdly, you need to reinforce, reward, and repeat those behaviors that represent and support these cultural traits. This isn't a one-and-done or a 'year-long transformation', but a new way of operating. It is something that should be embedded within your organizational values. Effective change is ongoing - something which is continually fostered and refined, rather than transactional.

If you want to be a more data-driven organization, start with examining and defining the three fundamentals of a successful change: establishing common challenges, educate employees on understanding data, and reinforce the right behaviors. No technology platform will ever make that happen for you.

How To Solve Problems Faster We all are faced with a myriad of business problems that every organization wants to be solved quickly and easily. We know not every problem is the same, and we know that some problems are more complex than others. We also know that some problems might be expensive to solve, and some might take a lot of time and resources.

However, many organizations actually hinder their ability to solve these problems by defining the problem incorrectly, and inherently, defining an incorrect solution. By not effectively identifying the right problems upfront, organizations can waste excessive time, resources, money, and worst of all - never achieve the outcomes they're seeking.

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For example, a client we were working with had developed an awards program for faculty, students, and alumni. The goal of the program was to recognize stellar achievements in entrepreneurship.

Following the first year of the program, applications were few, non-diverse, and often not representative of candidates the organization knew were outstanding.

They assumed the problem was awareness - that people didn't know about the program, and therefore didn't apply. The thought was to amplify marketing and communications, creating mailers, sending announcements, conducting promotions, and trying to build an 'eliteness' brand around the awards themselves. Even though these initiatives might generate more interest, the actual problem was much more downstream.

First, the application for the award was very long and required an extensive amount of information (financial statements, etc.). Second, if someone wanted to nominate a person for an award, they needed to provide the same information, which they likely would not have access to. Third, while the award recipients were measured on their impact and level of achievement, the application insinuated that financial growth and organizational size were equally important, if not more.

In short, the application process itself was deterring people from applying or nominating candidates, rather than awareness alone. If the organization had focused first on awareness, it would have brought more people to a process that was cumbersome and restrictive. The problem was incorrectly defined and incorrectly prioritized.

So instead of focusing on awareness building, the team redesigned and rearchitected the application form. They reduced the number of required fields and made the financial data an optional upload that also could be done at a later time. They also created a separate micro-application, to enable persons to make a nomination, where the staff would follow up with the candidate and walk them through the process. In addition, they expanded the scope of the awards, enabling not just entrepreneurs but intrapreneurs to be candidates as well. The changes are also being tested over the coming months to identify new roadblocks and further opportunities for refinement.

When facing a business problem, it is critically important to ensure you're not only identifying the right problem to tackle but in what order they should be addressed. There are many solutions to a single problem, and your team should stay open to new ways of looking at

tackling them. The most common and most obvious answers aren't always the best. By thinking critically, you'll likely uncover not only a new approach but maybe a new starting point altogether.

She is a 4-time ADDY® award winner and host of the popular Customer Mission podcast. Her thoughts have been continually featured in news sources such as Chief Executive Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Financial Brand, Industry Week, and more. Andrea is

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

a sought-after keynote speaker at conferences and corporate events throughout the world. She is a visiting lecturer and Director of the

Andrea Olson is a speaker, author, behavioral economist, and customer-

Startup Business Incubator at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College

centricity expert. As the CEO of Pragmadik, she helps organizations of

of Business, a TEDx presenter, and TEDx speaker coach. She is also a

all sizes, from small businesses to Fortune 500, and has served as an

mentor at the University of Iowa Venture School.

outside consultant for EY and McKinsey. Andrea is the author of The Customer Mission: Why it’s time to cut the $*&% and get back to the

More information is also available on www.pragmadik.com

business of understanding customers and No Disruptions: The future for

and www.andreabelkolson.com.

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Mike Gamache— Business Development Manager , Gamache Systems, a Division of Metalcraft of Mayville As a systems integrator, could you give us a general idea of the distinction between automation and robotics?

I define automation as any kind of system or machine that can be designed to perform a task that is difficult for a worker or something a worker can’t physically do. In a sense, a CNC machine tool is a form of automation. Industrial robots would fall within the definition of automation as an arm articulated by any number of servomotors that can perform tasks such as machine tending, welding, material handling, plasma cutting, and various other tasks.

I would assume the majority of your customers have little or no experience with these technologies and that meeting their needs requires a ground-up system design approach.

That probably describes about 80 percent of our new customers. They’ve realized it’s time to streamline their operations and cut costs by increasing efficiency, so we’ll begin by having a conversation or a meeting to discuss their goals and see what we have to work with. That’s when we really start to

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closely examine what needs to be done; how it’s currently being accomplished, and what improvements could be made using best-in-class technologies combined with Lean manufacturing principles. Our primary partners are Fanuc robotics, Rockwell Automation, and for CNC machine tending we use Lang Technovation for workholding.

We actually have quite a list of longtime vendors that provide components and subcomponents that contribute to the systems we design, and knowing that we have confidence in those components helps our customers become more confident in automation. Once a system is designed and built, our engineers have to program the “brains” of the system. This is another area that you have to create confidence with the customer by making things user-friendly and easy to maintain.

When it’s all ready, we install and provide training for the customers to create the final level of confidence and trust in our system and in ourselves as systems providers.

We follow the customer’s lead in terms of how far they’d like to go. Sometimes all-new equipment is what is required to create the desired results, while other projects only call for adding a robot for tending an existing machine or press.

Just think of what a difference a system utilizing robotics can make in a facility with workers that are performing mundane, repetitive tasks like machine tending or skilled tasks like welding and assembly. The economic, and ergonomic, benefits can be found at every turn.

Apart from design, what other benefits does a systems integrator provide?

One of the biggest challenges manufacturers are facing right now is how hard it is to find machine operators and skilled labor. And when you can, you don’t want to waste their time on dull, monotonous tasks. That’s when a robot is particularly effective at addressing unattended machine time, but first you need someone who can evaluate and balance material weight, arm reach, functions to be performed, and the level of technology required for the task in order to make a smart equipment investment.

In addition to collaborating with the customer throughout the design process, we guide them through the hardware and software that’s currently on the market. New technologies are constantly being introduced, and can appear quite

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attractive, but sometimes it’s best to let it spend a little more time on the industrial proving grounds before writing out that PO. But once all the decisions have been made we will handle all the equipment installation and testing, we’ll provide complete staff training, and then technical and maintenance support from that point forward. And continuing conversations, as well, because we’ve found that once a manufacturer gets that first taste of how much automation improves their operations, they’re eager to learn more about what else is out there, and the options are virtually limitless.

Is there anything else particularly interesting you see out there on the horizon in your line of work?

Continuing on the theme of addressing unattended machine time is the concept of “machine tending,” which extends to plasma cutting, flame finishing, CNC machining, and many more processes. In fact, RoboTrex, utilizing a Fanuc robot and Lang vises, is a unique CNC machine tending solution that is described as more than just a robotics parts handling system, but a pre-engineered,

next-gen, systematic approach to reducing cost within your machine operations. So there’s constantly something new to keep a lookout for.

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Vaccination Guidelines America’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Allows For Reduced Restrictions

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he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its first set of recommendations on activities that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can safely resume.

The new guidance—which is based on the latest science — includes recommendations for how and when a fully vaccinated individual can visit with other people who are fully vaccinated and with other people who are not vaccinated. This guidance represents a first step toward returning to everyday activities in our communities. CDC will update these recommendations as more people are vaccinated, rates of COVID-19 in the community change, and additional scientific evidence becomes available.

“We know that people want to get vaccinated so they can get back to doing the things they enjoy with the people they love,” said CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH. “There are some activities that fully vaccinated people can begin to resume now in their own homes. Everyone – even those who are vaccinated

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– should continue with all mitigation strategies when in public settings. As the science evolves and more people get vaccinated, we will continue to provide more guidance to help fully vaccinated people safely resume more activities.” » Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or staying 6 feet apart. » Visit with unvaccinated people from one other household indoors without wearing masks or staying 6 feet apart if everyone in the other household is at low risk for severe disease. » Refrain from quarantine and testing if they do not have symptoms of COVID-19 after contact with someone who has COVID-19.

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One year ago today, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The toll of this disease and the continued loss of life around the world and in our nation is heartbreaking. To so many of you who have felt the pain and loss of a loved one during this pandemic – you have suffered the ultimate loss, and we grieve with you.

After a year of this fight, we are tired, we are lonely, we are impatient. There have been too many missed family gatherings, too many lost milestones and opportunities, too many sacrifices. And still, through it all, there is determination; there are stories of giving and hope, of stamina and perseverance.

We are better together, and together, we will endure.

The vaccination of millions every day gives me hope. Hope that we can beat this pandemic. And hope that we can get back to being with our family, friends, and community. And soon.

Earlier this week, CDC released our first evidencebased guidance for fully vaccinated people. These new recommendations are a first step in our process of returning to everyday activities – safely spending time with family and friends, hugging our grandparents and grandchildren, and celebrating birthdays and holidays.

While we accumulate more evidence to support the safe return to everyday activities, please continue taking precautions in public and when around people who are at high risk for severe COVID-19 disease. Whether you are already vaccinated or not yet vaccinated, wear a well-fitted mask, practice physical distancing, wash your hands often, avoid medium and large gatherings, and avoid travel. We know these measures work to prevent the spread of this virus and help protect each other.

This pandemic will end. And, our public health work will continue. Through the near-blinding spotlight of this crisis, we now clearly see what we should have addressed before– the long-standing inequities that prevent us from achieving optimal health for all. We see the impact of years of neglect of our public health infrastructure. We see the critical need for data that move faster than disease, to prevent rather than react.

To move past this pandemic, we must resolutely face these challenges head on and fully embrace the innovations, the new partnerships, and the resilience of our communities that have emerged from this crisis. It is the only way we can turn tragedy and sorrow into lasting progress and improved health for all.

In one year, we have lost over 520,000 Americans to COVID-19. These are grandparents, parents, and children.

They are siblings, friends, and neighbors. They are our loved ones and our community. We join together to grieve these losses and intensify our efforts so they were not in vain. I thank you for your perseverance and for your unity of mission.

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Manufacturing Showcase

COMBILIFT By: Russ Willcutt

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or a company that was founded in 1998, Combilift has made extraordinary headway in terms of developing new lines of material handling equipment and expanding its global footprint, all from its home of Monaghan, Ireland. Engineers Robert Moffett and Martin McVicar founded the company and lead it to this day, overseeing its early growth throughout Europe and then into North America where it now has approximately 100 dealers representing, and often stocking, its products. Paul Short is the vice president of North American Sales, and is based in Greensboro, North Carolina. A full inventory of spare parts are also housed at this location.

“Combilift was always meant to be an exporter, since Ireland is a relatively small country,” he says. “But we design all of our

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equipment, manufacture the chassis, and assemble a few components from longtime local suppliers, such as dashboard gauge professionals, here in Monaghan ready to be shipped. We shipped to 85 countries last year, in fact.”

Short says the impetus for the pace of the company’s growth as well as the diversity of its product lineup comes straight from its customers. “From the very beginning, they’ve told us what they need – machines to carry massive weights, or extremely long, large circumference metal pipes, for instance – and our job is to make it.

Once we’ve addressed their need, we take a look at the larger market, because that customer may have identified what could become a new product line for us. Plus, if something is a problem in one place, it’s generally causing another manufacturer problems somewhere else.”

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Its product categories are primarily grouped in four ways: pallets and long loads; long load handling; oversized/ heavy goods; and warehouse solutions.

But each of those areas is comprised of dozens of designs for specific applications, counting more than 80 to choose from, as well as categories such as machines specifically for work in poultry operations and pedestrian equipment. Short says that Combilift reinvests 7 percent of its annual revenue to R&D to keep this spirit of innovation alive.

One of the primary benefits the company provides to its customers is space optimization. A Combilift planner can walk into a warehouse, learn about the product flow, and suggest equipment and strategies that can both increase a facility’s storage capacity as well as employee safety. There are circumstances where a company has experienced a period of growth and wants to avoid slipshod additions to its warehouse, plant floor, and material flow.

That’s one point at which Combilift would be an invaluable resource in helping make that a seamless transition. Or a company may be creating an entirely new operation, physically adjacent to other operations but otherwise independent. That would be an ideal time to consider Combilift a resource

for helping plan and equip a leading-edge material handling operation from the very beginning.

But it’s probably the companies that have been dealing with unorganized and inefficient storage and material flow systems that would most appreciate the transformation Combilift can provide.

Sometimes it’s hard to think clearly until you’ve minimized the surrounding clutter, after all, whether that involves noise, bulky boxes being stored temporarily that will just cause another headache when they have to be moved again, those strange zones where things begin to accumulate that nobody remembers what they were once for. Those are probably the folks who would most appreciate an optimized warehouse with increased capacity, material-handling equipment specifically designed to accomplish the task your operation requires, and just not having to start each day worrying about what goes where, and how.

“We want people to know that we’re a resource they can call on whenever they want to improve or optimize their storage and material handling challenges,” Short says. “We’re here, and we can help.”

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Goodbye, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu - See Ya Down The Road By: Randy Pearson, Director of CNC Training, Siemens

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s I’m retiring after 46 years in the machine tool and CNC world, I wanted to take this opportunity to say “thank you” to the most important memory I’ll carry off to my next chapter in life. Namely, all of the great people I’ve known, either as mentor, co-worker, employer who gave me a chance, management folks at Siemens who supported my passion for training that culminated in the incredible Technical Application Center at the Machine Tool HQ of Siemens in Chicago, plus everyone I’ve trained in the classes I’ve given, over the years, either in person, at shows or onsite in their shops and factory production departments.

When I started in 1975, running a Bandit at DoAll in Chicago, the hot new thing was the NC tape drive. I worked on Bridgeport mills and other machines, as I continued my career at Hundai, Iverson, Hardinge, Kitamura, Toyoda and Romi, before finally coming to Siemens, 21 years ago. The transition from tape drives to a true CNC was in full swing, though the industry was still accepting the enormous firepower and motion control capability of the CNC. I had Norman Bleier as my mentor and I could not have been more fortunate, as Norm was on the team that pioneered CNC. The man had an encyclopedic knowledge of the process, the hardware and the software. Plus, he had that gift every great engineer is blessed with, an ability to think forward to the next level of technology… and make it happen.

Along the way, it occurred to me that training would be key in the machine shop world, because many of the older guys worked in a way that simply was destined to go away, in favor of the new technology, which wasn’t being taught in schools, not even trade schools, at the time. Worse, with the cutbacks in educational funding, the first thing to go was often the “shop class,” a place where I’d discovered my love of making things.

Today, I can tell you I proudly leave behind a great shop class operation at Lake Park High School, here in Chicagoland, where Terry Iverson and others have supported the place financially and I’ve helped a little with the machine tool selection and emulated controls. To get serious for a moment, if we don’t train the next generation properly, America runs the risk of losing its manufacturing base and that simply cannot be allowed to happen.

Today, that proper training is being done in Covid times and the Siemens Virtual Technical Application

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Center, run by Chris Pollack, is engaging thousands of current and potential machine operators, programmers and maintenance personnel in all the latest technologies, as well as those good old tips and tricks the great machinists always figure out, in order to keep their machines running at optimum productivity levels.

Despite the tremendous capabilities onboard the new machines and especially today’s CNC’s, it’s still the people who run those machines and the controls and even the robots.

I’ll miss some things about life on the road, where I spent 70-80 percent of my time for many years, with apologies to my lovely bride.

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Funny moment was a training trip to Oak Ridge, when I mistakenly kept my cell phone in my pocket as I entered the complex and quickly found myself in a room with some men in black.

Today, Chris and I have the advantage of doing everything virtually, which is very efficient, but I still miss that magic moment when you see that a young person “gets it” and wants to take flight, soar and create something very cool on his or her machine tool. I remember having those moments when I started and smart old craftsmen showed me how to do something the right way. When I’m up in the mountains, swimming, taking photos, riding an ATV or just hiking in nature, I’ll think about those moments and smile, because those were the best. And I owe those memories to the great people I’ve encountered, along the cutting path.

Analog has gone digital, NC has gone CNC, robots handle a lot but still need human guidance and the end result is, as it’s always been since I first cranked that wheel on the Bridgeport, the creation of something that didn’t exist an hour or two or twenty-two earlier.

And I still know how to drive a forklift!

Thanks to everyone who made my journey the rapid traverse of a lifetime.

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Workforce Development

Experiences to Inspire the Future Workforce

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he National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS) is partnering with Edge Factor this year to inspire students and job-seekers to pursue career pathways in manufacturing and other Skilled Trades. This strategic Workforce Development initiative will provide schools, companies, and Workforce leaders with three FREE Experience toolkits that feature high impact multimedia, a Keynote presentation, promotional tools, and practical guidebook on how to plan, promote, host and follow-up on engaging presentations and virtual events. These online Experiences will empower students, parents, and job-seekers to explore Skilled Trades, Apprenticeships, hands-on learning programs, careers, STEAM, and soft skills.

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NIMS, a 501C-3 nonprofit, provides world-class, industry-developed and validated, performance standards, competency-based credentials, and training frameworks that enable collaboration between educators, manufacturers, policy makers, and community-based organizations. 25 years of manufacturing training experience has enabled NIMS to use its established well-defined frameworks and processes that have universal and timeless attributes to dynamically respond to the new fast paced, technology-driven economy. NIMS has applied concepts of modularity and adaptability in training and performance validation to develop a new smart training framework. Its customizable format is aligned with manufacturers on the smart manufacturing journey and it is created with job roles, not occupations.

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“We have long appreciated the work that NIMS does. At a time where we need our communities to come together and build into our youth, this partnership is going to help us accomplish more by doing it together,” said Jeremy Bout, Founder and President of Edge Factor. “As someone who spent many years in my career in advanced manufacturing, I know there are extraordinary opportunities in this industry to impact people’s lives and build the future. Through our partnership with Montez King and NIMS, we will be able to inspire and prepare many new minds to launch careers in manufacturing.”

Edge Factor, a widely-used e-learning platform has created thousands of videos, interactive activities, and lesson plans that focus on career exploration. K-12 and Postsecondary schools, companies, and organizations partner with Edge Factor to help tackle workforce development regionally and nationally. Using the power of storytelling, Edge Factor produced several cinematic and inspirational films featuring NIMS graduates, and NIMS very own Executive Director, Montez King, in Paradox. using technology to bring design ideas to life and impact people’s lives. With these stories, and much more, the Edge Factor platform helps students and job-seekers explore career pathways, learn soft skills, discover STEAM on-the-job, experience Virtual Workplaces, and learn about local training and career opportunities.

Featuring select tools from the Edge Factor library, six free Experiences will be available during specific 2021 months, for organizations to share in classrooms, homes, and at events.

“I am very much looking forward to this collaboration. Edge Factor and NIMS have worked together for years to bring light to the importance and opportunities available to students in emerging fields of advanced manufacturing and Skilled Trades,” said Montez

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NIMS is specifically partnering with Edge Factor on the following three 2021

Experiences: » Women in Skilled Trades (Apr 2021) - To celebrate International Women’s Day/ Month, this toolkit will feature a special collection of tools that Edge Factor has created that feature women in skilled trades! The goal of this Experience is to encourage more women and female students to pursue career pathways

in diverse skilled trades. In addition, NIMS will be doing a weekly live interview series throughout the month of March (hosted on their FB page) where they will interview a different woman in manufacturing each week to address challenges and opportunities in the field. » Rock MFG DAY (Sept-October 2021) - October is Manufacturing Day/ Month and Edge Factor is providing the 2021 Rock MFG DAY kit for everyone to highlight the extraordinary world of advanced manufacturing. This toolkit will include resources to promote manufacturing careers and technology and showcase how STEAM comes alive in this industry. » Apprenticeships (Nov-Dec 2021) - There are many training pathways that lead to successful careers - Apprenticeships offer incredible opportunities for students to gain real world skills and earn money while they learn! The Apprenticeships Experience will provide inspirational and informational tools for students and parents to discover the power of apprenticeship programs. Additionally, Edge Factor and NIMS will produce a video series interviewing NIMS Executive Director, Montez King regarding his experience as an apprentice and his advice to students looking to enter into an apprenticeship and build a successful career.

Each free Experience will include: » 5 Days of STEAM Programming (including inspirational stories, industry and career profiles, STEAM content, soft skills videos, interactive activities, and lesson plans) » A Keynote Presentation (pre-recorded speaker) » “How-to” Guides and promotional tools customized for Schools, Companies, and Workforce Leaders to plan, promote, host and follow-up on engaging Experiences.

Whether you’re an educator, business or workforce development leader, or a parent looking to help your kids find a career they’ll love, you can pre-register for these free 2021 Experiences today! Visit edgefactor.com/free-experiences.

ABOUT NIMS NIMS was founded in 1995 as a non-profit organization with the mission to provide world-class, industry-developed and validated, competencybased standards, credentials, and training frameworks that enable collaboration between educators, manufacturers, policy makers, and community-based organizations in a joint effort to increase the skills of the U.S. manufacturing workforce. Over the last 25 years, NIMS has become the industry standard for skills training, validation, and credentialing, providing now over 60 portable credentials in specific technical areas. NIMS has established well-defined frameworks and processes that have universal and timeless attributes that dynamically respond to our fast-paced, technology-driven economy.

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New Technology

Conquering Challenging Material Handling Scenarios OnRobot launches their advanced magnetic gripper and the worlds most powerful vacuum gripper for precise material handling

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nRobot has launched the MG10, a versatile, high-performance, easy to use magnetic gripper for material handling, assembly and machine tending applications in manufacturing, automotive and aerospace environments. Fully compatible with all major robot brands through OnRobot’s One System Solution, the MG10 offers unique adjustable force and grip detection features that provide users with unprecedented levels of control.

Standard magnetic grippers only provide simple ON/OFF functionality. To adjust the force applied, users have to add rubber ‘feet’ to create space between the magnet and the part. This is

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a tedious and imprecise process that doesn’t always guarantee perfect results, especially on applications that involve handling thin metal sheets and small metal parts where magnetic grippers often accidentally end up picking more than one sheet or part as the force cannot be adjusted.

“Standard magnetic grippers are a real hassle because almost every time your application or workpiece changes, you have to make manual adjustments to compensate for the gripper’s lack of functionality,” says Enrico Krog Iversen, CEO of OnRobot.

“OnRobot’s innovative MG10 gripper eliminates all that thanks to its adjustable force features that enable you to deploy precise material handling applications quickly and easily.”

New Features Eliminate Dropped Parts Unlike standard magnetic grippers, the innovative MG10 comes with built-in grip and sensors for part detection. For applications that involve handling sheet metal --such as machine tending tasks that require robots to lift sheet metal from a stack, place it into a press brake/press bending machine, and remove it when the machine has completed its work-- this functionality ensures smooth, consistent and safe operation. And if the robot loses power or has to make an e-stop while performing a task, these features ensure that there is no risk of dropping the part being handled.

The new MG10 gripper is ready to take over machine tending, assembly and material handling tasks that were once performed by costly and complex pneumatic grippers. “While pneumatic

systems require an external air supply, cabling and ongoing maintenance, the MG10 is ready to go out of the box, resulting in massively reduced deployment costs compared to its pneumatic counterparts,” says Iversen.

Handles Uneven, Abrasive or Perforated Surfaces The MG10 also provides precise and durable handling of objects with abrasive, uneven or perforated surfaces, making it a perfect fit for a wide variety of applications in the manufacturing, automotive and aerospace sectors. On top of that, the MG10’s multi-magnet setup ensures that this gripper can handle a wide range of sizes, weights and parts with odd-shaped geometries.

There are many applications, such as multi-stage bending press tasks and handling parts with many holes, where vacuum and finger-type grippers simply don’t have the intelligence and power to succeed. The MG10 can handle such tasks with ease, whether the workpiece is a metal blank, a punched steel part, or a perforated steel sheet.

“As the manufacturing sector moves towards low volume/high mix production, the ability to move quickly from one application setup to another quickly is more than a ‘nice to have.’ It’s essential,” says CEO Iversen. “The MG10 is the only magnetic gripper on the market that’s sufficiently versatile, intelligent and so easy to use that it can be quickly redeployed on tasks from machine tending and palletizing to de-stacking of metal sheets –and all in one no fuss, no nonsense, plug and play package.”

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World’s Most Powerful Electric Vacuum Gripper Large, unwieldy bags of dog food, non-airtight clothing or consumer goods packages, and bulky, porous cardboard boxes. These are just some examples of demanding packaging and palletizing applications that OnRobot’s new VGP20 gripper can address. VGP20 is the world’s most-powerful electric vacuum gripper. Compatible with all leading robot brands, the gripper can handle payloads of 2-kilograms (44.09-pounds), making it a great fit for a wide range of applications in industries from cosmetics and electronics to pharmaceuticals and food and beverage.

“Our customers asked for a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy vacuum gripper that can pick up bulky, heavy-duty payloads while being intelligent enough to handle a wide range of items, including those with irregular shapes and porous surfaces,” says Enrico Krog Iversen, CEO at OnRobot.

“The VGP20 combines power, intelligence and ease-of-use that competes with expensive, complex pneumatic grippers.”

End-of-line operations such as palletizing are labor-intensive and costly. Researchers estimate that, on average, labor costs account for 65% of warehouse facility operating budgets, dwarfing the costs associated with utilities, taxes, distribution and rent combined.

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On this basis alone, automation is a compelling proposition for companies of all sizes. According to researchers, adoption of automated palletizing solutions in the food and beverage sector is estimated to have increased at a CAGR of more than 13 percent since 2017 and is set to reach USD390 million by 2022.

90% Cost Savings Compared to Pneumatic Grippers OnRobot’s new VGP20 electric vacuum gripper can take on applications that have traditionally been handled by powerful pneumatic grippers– at a fraction of the cost and complexity.

While pneumatic grippers require compressed air to operate, the VGP20 is all-electric and ready to go out of the box, enabling companies to save up to 90-percent on operating and maintenance costs compared to traditional pneumatic gripper deployments.

The VGP20 provides unlimited cup and airflow customization and multichannel functionality, allowing it to be deployed on multiple items of different shapes and sizes.

Additionally, the VGP20 gripper’s built-in intelligence, combined with its easy-to-use software, provides precise air flow control functionality that is beyond the capabilities of traditional pneumatic

grippers. This functionality allows users to vary the type of grip used in different applications, such as the soft grip used to handle delicate items to the hard grip required for handling bulky, heavy cardboard boxes with porous surfaces.

Enables Use of Less Expensive Packaging Materials The costs of carboard for packaging has risen by nearly 40 percent from 2010 2020. Additionally, with continued strong growth of e-commerce demands, estimates of further increases lead shippers to look for lower-cost options for packaging materials. Thinner, more porous cardboard and lightweight shipping bags present challenges for traditional automated packaging and palletizing, however. The powerful, customizable OnRobot VGP20 easily handles these thinner and less expensive packaging materials, allowing shippers to save considerably on both automation and shipping costs.

OnRobot’s VGP20 gripper also provides an option to enable continuous monitoring of the gripper’s air flow. If this option is selected, and the vacuum is interrupted for any reason, the robot will come to an immediate halt and an alert pop-up window will be displayed in the gripper software.

“Efficient packaging and palletizing performance is crucial to success for manufacturers, e-commerce and logistics companies. However, labor shortages present an ongoing challenge and performing these jobs by hand is both monotonous and unergonomic,” says Iversen. “The powerful and versatile VGP20 gripper enables companies to automate these tasks, providing relief to workers while improving overall productivity and quality.”

ABOUT ONROBOT OnRobot manufactures a wide range of components for collaborative applications, including electric grippers, magnetic grippers, the world's most powerful electric vacuum gripper, the award-winning Gecko gripping technology, force/torque sensors, 2.5D vision technology, screwdriving kits, sanding kits and tool changers.

OnRobot makes it quick and easy to automate tasks such as packaging, quality control, materials handling, machine tending, palletizing, assembly, and surface finishing. Headquartered in Odense, Denmark, OnRobot also has offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, Soest (Germany), Barcelona, Warsaw, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Budapest.

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Process

Recipe for Success Global doughnut maker is a machine builder first

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rom its early beginnings, the Krispy Kreme company has designed and built the proprietary machines that have given “rise” to their equally safeguarded doughnut recipe. The quality and consistency of the global doughnut brand starts at the company’s headquarters in Winston Salem, NC. where a 105,000 square foot manufacturing facility houses research, design, testing, engineering and production.

The machines and processing equipment being built there use Siemens drives and controls, collaboratively integrated by Think PLC, the automation engineering partner to Krispy Kreme.

“Honestly, in my 20 years of experience, I’ve never seen an end user build such high-quality machines in-house like they do,” says Bobby Cole, president of The new Krispy Kreme store in New York’s Times Square features a vertical cooling conveyor that was engineered and built by the company entirely in-house. Control integration was provided by Think PLC Think PLC. “They engineer and manufacture all of their automation consultants using Siemens drives and controls. production machines, from the extruders and conveyors through to the packaging, including their famous glaze waterfall.”

Krispy Kreme’s decision to use Siemens control automation Every Krispy Kreme store is a high-tech doughnut manufacturing would support an aggressive roll-out of new stores and the facility. The speed at which an extruded doughnut moves through swift retrofitting of existing stores. Integrating the latest Siemens the store is a very, very big deal, Cole says. Throughout the process, variable frequency drive (VFD) technology was an easy decision. the shortening is kept within an exact range of temperature.

The hard part would be to figure out how to conduct those Doughnuts are cooked on both sides for a precise number of retrofits in the shortest and most cost-efficient way, in over 600 seconds on each side. The cooling conveyor cycles through the stores world-wide. store at a set number of minutes.

That’s when Betson and Bobby Cole came up with the idea of a retrofit kit, one that would enable every store to quickly add new components and software to existing hardware, making massive Driving Shop-Floor Automation technology conversion acceptable to all, and therefore actionable Patrick Betson is Krispy Kreme’s director of equipment in short order. manufacturing. Responsible for the machine-building side of the business, he has long understood the connection between the making of great machines and the making of great doughnuts.

Kits for Rapid Retrofitting Having gathered insights from the company’s service technicians, Bobby Cole says the concept of a kit was inspired by the realization store managers, and customers, he had initiated a range of that while the Siemens drives and controls installed around 2001 improvements leading to increased uptime and mean time were now starting show their age, they all shared a farsighted between failure. Now those early strides pointed to the need for onboard feature: an SD card. This would prove to be a time-saving, the latest drive technology, related software conversions, and cost-cutting advantage, because the SD cards in the older Siemens safety integration. drives and PLCs have been maintained to match each store’s unique “Before there was much publicity about Industry 4.0 and set of machining and processing parameters.

IoT, Bobby Cole and I often talked about the data that could be In addition, each kit would include all that was needed for a generated by more advanced machine monitoring,” says Betson. local contractor to upgrade the legacy control panels, including “It became increasingly clear that by integrating the latest Siemens parts for safety and power wiring. A bill of material having 15 parts drives and controls on our machines, and connecting them using would be reduced to seven. This would mean fewer parts to wear, Profinet communications, we could start putting that data to work.” troubleshoot, and stock in the future.

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The integration of the Siemens SINAMICS G120 drive is essential to the retrofit strategy developed by Patrick Betson (left), Krispy Kreme’s director of equipment manufacturing, and Bobby Cole, president of automation consultancy Think PLC.

“The main purpose of the kit was to replace the older Siemens Micromaster drives with their SINAMICS G120 drives,” Cole explains. “The SD card in the kit has software that we modified, and with a couple flips of some switches, the drive is automatically programmed. Someone with absolutely no control experience can reload the new software into the new drives and the new PLCs.” To prove the retrofit kit concept, Krispy Kreme and Think PLC tested the kit’s installation and use in their manufacturing plant in Winston Salem, followed by tests at various stores in the region. The new drives and PLCs installed smoothly. Their SD cards automatically updated and matched all previous store parameters. After two months, the stores reported the trial a success. But to further test the concept themselves, Cole and Betson made a whirlwind trip to retrofit every store in Australia over five days using the kits.

The retrofit kit concept had worked.

It enables a store to replace its drives and controls in about two hours. This compared to the hours invoiced by a control technician to travel to a Krispy Kreme store to do the same. A time/cost difference that would be even greater, were the SD card not a feature of the Siemens drives and PLCS, Cole says.

Shortening The Adoption Curve During the doughnut frying process, the efficient pumping of heated shortening is critical to maintaining optimal doughnut quality and product count. When the flow rate is not at the desired constant, the wide range of viscosity becomes a problem. The melted shortening will not be filtered of dough bits and pieces. Temperature variances will soon occur, causing hot spots at any point in the frying process, including inside the fryer vat itself.

Behind the scenes, the Siemens SINAMICS G120 drive addresses all of these pump motor concerns, while visually reporting the operational status of each motor. Moreover, the drive is working to assure that all of the pump motors are keeping their cool, below the threshold for heat damage.

In many pumping applications, motor overheating is probably the number one service issue, Cole says. That problem is being removed by the drive’s ability to set and hold a curve that assures the most efficient flow, at a low speed and at a high speed, from 7 hertz to 90 hertz.

The accuracy of the fry time is also being increased by 12 percent, resulting in a more consistent product with less waste yield.

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“A big advantage of the drive is that it can run a motor slow without the usual rise in motor temp,” Cole explains. “When you run a motor at very low hertz, it generates a lot of eddy current. It gets so hot, that you can’t touch the motor. And when you overheat the laminations of a motor, you greatly decrease the life of the motor. But we can monitor each drive through the Siemens TIA (Totally Integrated Automation) portal.

We’ve seen the amperage reduced by almost 17 percent, and the temperature of the motor reduced by 34 percent. We expect this will more than double the life expectancy of every pump.”

Remote Monitoring The successful grand opening of the Krispy Kreme store in New York’s Times Square was not without the occasional behind-the-scenes drama for new store Retrofitting with ease: Betson and Cole found that they could retrofit every store in Australia in five days by using their technology retrofit kit concept. commissioning. A sudden pumping issue, it was the kind of problem that can happen at any hour, at any drive, a large display presents any fault messages. Select a fault of the 500-plus global stores owned by the company. But it is also message and you are given the related fault code that you would a concern that can be quickly solved on-site – or from thousands in the past need to look up in the user’s manual. Now, all of the of miles away. information you need, the details, what to check, how to reset, are “The situation was addressed in a matter of minutes,” says Bobby on the display. Diagnostic screens help you debug the problem.

Cole. “I just went online through the Siemens secure TIA portal to And beyond this, faults and alarms can be data logged in the see what the Siemens G-120 drive was showing me. While setting up cloud. Trends can be studied over the course of a year. Faults for a one of the machines, a motor had been mis-wired. I could quickly particular machine can be identified and addressed. A shortening tell the local setup contractor where to look.” pump that is tripping more often can be replaced during the store’s Cole likens the TIA portal experience to standing in the store next on-site inspection. at the drive’s operator interface. When you open the door to the “I can on my mobile phone right now, pull up a store in another country,” Cole says. “I can look at how many cuts were made on the extruder today. I can look at how many faults occurred throughout the day on that machine. I can see what the average temperature was in the shortening tank. I can call the local service manager and say, ‘Hey, next time you do a preventative maintenance at that store, you need to send a new pump motor, because you’re getting multiple faults within a short period of time.

Have those parts on your truck and you won’t need to make a second trip.’”

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Krispy Kreme employees are trained and dedicated to

serving up the fresh-made doughnuts that flow from their store’s unique production floor. So, if you are a Krispy Kreme employee, you do not need to understand what 60 hertz means. You are not thinking about the cylinders that are extruding the dough, the 100-plus feet of chain that is carrying the dough from the extruder to the fryer, the humidity of the dough for that particular doughnut, and the exact amount of time that doughnut spends in the fryer.

You see an operator interface that shows the image of a doughnut type. Press the button, and you see an hourglass representing the doughnut is in the fryer. That’s it. You can go back to serving your customers. Behind the scenes, the humidity of the dough, the temperature of the oil, the speed of doughnut flow, and the frying time are all automatically being taken care of.

And all of that is being done with your safety in mind.

The SINAMICS G120 drive supports the design of machines and processes that have triple-quadruple redundancy, says Bobby Cole.

Especially in areas where the fryer is exposed, employee safety is being reinforced. The new drives and PLCs being retrofitted into every store integrate with the existing Siemens safety monitoring circuitry, inclusive of automated safety mechanisms and E-stop buttons. For example, if a hose were to break on the shortening pump, the flow stops within 100 milliseconds, Cole says.

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Portal To The Future Patrick Betson sees the big picture that is being made clear by the data now starting to flow through the Siemens TIA portal. Along with the ability to remotely use each store’s data to plan for machine maintenance and prevention, the data can routinely be studied to measure and improve the design of the company’s machines and processes.

Having anticipated the emergence of Industry 4.0 and IoT, he now also sees how data can be used to guide employee training and best practices for human-machine interaction. Continuous improvement and operational excellence can be studiously amplified store-wide and in stores world-wide.

“The data we are capturing now and hereafter strengthens us in many ways,” Betson says. “It’s important to us as a machine builder, because it also reinforces our culture and Krispy Kreme’s identity in our global marketplace.”

Lighting The Way “At the end of the day, we do these magical things,” says Think PLC’s Bobby Cole. “From a safety perspective, from the standpoints of reliability and the simplicity of an operator interface, the Krispy Kreme equipment group in Winston-Salem are amazing machine builders. At any hour, including when a store’s hot light is on to signal free doughnut samples are now available, or when a store is giving away free doughnuts to health care workers, you can’t have a machine go down, disrupting what you promise.”

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Enhanced Robotic Welding Solutions American Shipbuilder Halter Marine Orders Numerous Inrotech Welding Robots

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“We are honored to be part of this strategic cooperation with Halter Marine,” said Thomas Bøgner, Sales Director of Inrotech.

“To enhance robotic welding solutions with Halter Marine is an important step for both parties, and we are absolutely committed to nothing else than successful operation.

The robots will be integrated and implemented in the Halter marine’s production in order to reduce manhours, increase welding quality and improve productivity. Inrotech’s welding robots usually substitutes 4-5 welders per shift per robot.

Unique Mobile Welding Robots Inrotech is a Danish company which is born out of the shipbuilding industry and today shipbuilding is still the main market. Instead of huge gantries with large and heavy semi-stationary robots, which were operating in dedicated production areas where the large components were transported in order to be welded, Inrotech chose the other way around: Making small, mobile robot solutions, which can be moved to or even into- the existing production layout.

Without compromising welding efficiency, this solution offered several advantages to the traditional gantry-based solutions: lower cost, less transport of large structures and flexibility to move to different working areas.

sub-assemblies and T-profiles in the shipbuilding industry.

Both robot solutions above are driven by the ‘SensLogic Technology’, representing today a unique technology platform with an unmatched simplicity and user friendliness. Besides being simple to use, you don’t have to transfer any CAD drawings or do any pre-programming, it can also to a large degree obtain tolerances as the reference is the object itself, and not a CAD drawing.

After having placed the panels in the working area; all that has to be done is to push the green start button!

The third product is the Inrotech-Crawler, which is designed for heavy industry for welding of high quality multipass welding’s on site in any position needed. The robot itself is a UR3, which is the smallest of Universal’s robot series.

The robot automatically identifies the welding groove by means of a line scanner and automatically calculates the number of passes, location of each pass, welding speed and weaving pattern; no matter position or plate thickness. Thereby variations in the groove geometry is compensated automatically. The unique technology behind is Inrotech’s own ‘WeldLogic Technology’. It can be used for the welding of almost any weld groove design and in any positionas long as there is physical access for the robot.

Other Markets “I am pleased that we, as an international frontrunner in advanced welding robots, have entered the American market. Among other things, we ensure an improved competitiveness for Halter Marine, just as we ensure a clearly improved working environment for several welding workers”, says Thomas Bøgner.

"We will now be able to present locally how our robot solutions eliminate heavy and difficult manual welding tasks and thus open up to other potential customers in USA.”

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In addition to shipyards, Inrotech’s intelligent and mobile robotic welding systems is the obvious choice for in the offshore industry, green energy sector and manufacturers of heavy-duty steel structures.

Inrotech has delivered highly feasible welding robots of wind-towers, steel structures such as bridges and other applications worldwide but also for Hydro plants, welding up to 70mm plate thickness with variations in the groove geometry up to 50%.

The company's success is based on a unique technology combination of mobile welding automation and a unique software: No programming, simple to use, mobile and flexible and high-quality welding. With the growing demand for quality welding, requirements for improvement of working environment, lack of skilled welders etc., Inrotech see a huge potential market for their robot welding solutions.

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ABOUT INROTECH: Inrotech was founded in 2010 by Flemming Jorgensen.

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The SUHNER ROBOTools for Fully Automated Manufacturing Robot-based drilling, grinding, polishing, filing, cutting and de-burring without time delays thanks to new end-of-arm tooling solutions.

For stationary machining applications, SUHNER products already represent the first choice. However, in cases where the cutting tool must be moved towards the work piece, insufficient or not, many practical solutions are readily available. This gap is now being closed by the SUHNER robot machine tool program. One option is to bring the work piece towards a standard stationary SUHNER machining unit. Today, SUHNER offers the possibility to adapt and guide the tool by the robot.

As a specialist in automation processes, machining units, handheld power tools and abrasives, SUHNER has expanded its wide product range with special tools that can

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Servo Motor Driven Angle Grinders Today, most robot guided grinding and polishing machine tools are operated by air. Often, considering a 24-hour operating environment, these machines reach their limits. Frequent ser-vice interruptions, plus extremely high air consumption add to energy cost that also will affect profitability.

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All of these critical requirements can be met with the newly designed servo driven tools from SUHNER either in standard or orbital design version.

Lightweight and powerful servo motors are used to obtain high speeds up to 9,500rpm made for continuous operation.

All grinding tools are made with an M14 spindle to enable the use of standard, commercially available grinding discs.

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Built for use on all types of CNC machines, the Dual Force Machine Vises from Palmgren are ideally suited when high precision part clamping is important. The family of vises is ideal for applications requiring multiple vises to be mounted parallel to each other.

Versatile, the vises can be mounted on their base or bottom or vertically positioned on their end. The vises are equipped with Palmgren’s Dual Force so as to deliver workholding efficiencies by providing the strength and rigidity to hold parts securely and accurately. The 100-year-old Palmgren is a C.H. Hanson brand.

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Sinumerik Motion Control (MC) — The New Open, Industrial PC-Based CNC For Fabrication And MetalProcessing Machines

Mazak designed its new INTEGREX i-H Series machines with the flexibility necessary to process a practically endless variety of part types without additional capital expenses. The new machines allow shops to add a multitude of automation options, some of which are retrofittable in the field, as production levels dictate long after the initial purchase of the machine, ensuring easy access to continuous improvement. Specific INTEGREX i-200H ST machine changes that ease the integration of automation are the inclusion of front and rear tool setup, a flat-front design to accommodate robots, tool magazine placement at the machine’s rear side and an easily retrofittable automatic machine door.

Siemens is offering the new Sinumerik MC controller, a universal, open, industrial PC-based CNC system. Its optimized motion control, high-performance automation and integrated Windows® 10 operating system make it an ideal control for fabrication and specialty machines, including woodworking, stonecutting, laser and even conventional basic grinding machines.

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Carell Corporation — www.carellcorp.com ...................................................................................... 15

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