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Case study: business owner says “most of what I thought would work was way too slow”
Supply Chain Issues Are Forcing Us To Make New “Friends” By Sandia Harrison, Director of Marketing, FPE Automation A Story About How Supply Chain Headaches Actually Made Things Better It took a few years for word to spread, but after 10 years in business in rural Eureka, Illinois, Advanced AG Concepts was in a good place as a company. A small,
Success story: In actuator applications, it’s usually the questions you don’t ask
Case Study: Conversion from Hydraulic to Electric Actuators By Sandia Harrison, Director of Marketing, FPE Automation It could have one of those typical, everyday phone calls. A tier-1 automotive supplier needed actuators. Many of us know the type of questions that typically follow; what are the specifications? Size, duty cycle, force, price. When everything looks good, get a quote and order
VIDEO: 2023 brings new regulations for pharmaceutical traceability. Here’s what that means
With DSCSA 2023 Requirements Approaching, Now Might Be a Great Time to Take a Look at Zebra Technologies’ Fixed Industrial Scanners and Machine Vision By Sandia Harrison, Director of Marketing, FPE Automation Video: Zebra Technologies The traceability requirements in effect from 2015 to 2023 required pharmaceutical products to be traceable at the lot level. The second phase of requirements will go
Trending in the collaborative robot space: AMRs
The Next Wave of Collaborative Robots From college campuses to hospitals to production floors, autonomous mobile robot carts (AMRs) will create a seismic shift in internal logistics, much the same way collaborative robot arms have changed the way we produce goods. By Sandia Harrison, Director of Marketing, FPE Automation Walk around any manufacturing or logistics space, or attend a trade
ARTICLE: As boomers prepare to retire, addressing a shrinking labor force
Already Tired of Hearing About Labor Shortages? It’s Going to Get Worse The good news? Automation has reached a point where technical feasibility allows it to fill in the gaps. The takeaway? Automation is ready now to step up when there are too few workers to do the job. By Sandia Harrison, Director of Marketing, FPE Automation There is no
Forging and stamping case study: when material handling is critical
FPE Automation’s Cody Schmelzle Helped Streamline Processes at a Utility Power Component Manufacturer. The resulting improvements were so significant that he won a PHD, Inc. Top Performer award for his efforts. If you speak to engineers and operations managers in forging and stamping plants, they’ll nearly always mention reliability. In such harsh manufacturing environments, not any workholding solution will do. In
Tying it all together: The last steps before a new robot cell hits your production floor
Making Automation a Reality To set the scene, I’ll just say that Pack Expo was… packed! Pun intended. The foot traffic at this year’s Pack Expo trade show at McCormick Place in Chicago was unusually heavy. That’s great news for businesses! It’s also nice that people are feeling comfortable enough to venture out in this post-COVID world. It was good
Your CNC Machine: one of the smartest ways to leverage a collaborative robot
Machine Tending with a Collaborative Robot If you ask most people, they would likely define machine tending as loading or unloading parts from a machine like the one in the background here. That’s correct, of course, but it doesn’t end there. Machine tending can also include transferring items to post-processing stations and other material handling tasks. If you still have
FPE Automation is rethinking the way we recycle old equipment, and it shows that one person can have a big impact
Julie Pearson Heads Up the FPE Automation Equipment Recycling Program With technology and automation growing at unprecedented rates, the tendency is to give more thought to implementations than to recycling. While the life span of the products FPE Automation provides is exceptionally long, nothing lasts forever. What happens to obsolete or non-functioning electronic items? At FPE Automation, one very special
FPE Automation breaks records to become Tolomatic distributor of the year
FPE Automation is Awarded Tolomatic Distributor of the Year Adam Toles, Tolomatic’s Managing Director, presented Joey Bardos, President, FPE Automation, with the Tolomatic Distributor of the Year award in Chicago on October 4, 2022. Andy Zaske, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Tolomatic, accompanied Toles to Chicago to present the award. “We had a great day celebrating with FPE
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