April 2018 Archives - Manufacturing In Focus Magazine

California Company Shines in a Growing Market

Data Aire of Orange, California is an expert in precision air control and energy management solutions. The growing firm designs systems that regulate temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide (CO₂) in indoor spaces for a very diverse client base.

Data Aire

Moving Toward a Better World

A modern business with a rich history, Kollmorgen is a leading global provider of precision motion systems and components for OEMs that has been active in the industry for over a hundred years.

Kollmorgen

Guarding Against Microbes

Before you can protect against microbes, it is important to know exactly what a microbe is and what harm it can do. Microbes are single-celled organisms that can only be viewed through a microscope and come in three main forms: fungi, bacteria and viruses.

What You Can’t See Can Hurt You

Forging Lifelong Friendships through Craft Beer and Spirits

Specific Mechanical Systems is world-renowned for the design and fabrication of brewing and distilling equipment systems for brewing beer, luxury and craft spirits. Its high-end stainless steel products and copper equipment are mainly focused on the food and beverage market. General Manager Reo Phillips shared some insights about the company’s history and its future.

Specific Mechanical Systems

Providing the Printing Industry with Unmatched Products and After-Sales Support

Since 1928, Rossini has supplied the printing sector with a complete range of rubber rollers, printing sleeves and equipment and has been a major, well-respected player in its industry due to its impressive after sales support, which, 90 years later, still remains unmatched.

Rossini

The Conversion Specialists

For the past 25 years, Catbridge Machinery has brought precision engineering and expert machine building to a new level. Using an innovative, customer-centric approach to design and engineering, Catbridge has emerged as the leader in state-of-the-art web converting solutions.

Catbridge Machinery

Materials Made to Last

MLP Steel has been one of America’s foremost manufacturers of steel and specialty metal wire products over the past fifty years. Its products are used in sectors including roads and infrastructure, transportation, automotive, mining, precast, ornamental and industrial construction.

MLP Steel

Smart Solutions

Smart Solutions LasX IndustriesBy Ryan Cartner View in E-MagazineView in Brochure LasX Industries designs and manufactures innovative laser processing systems for cutting, etching, scoring, perforating and etching a wide variety of materials used in manufacturing. ~ The company was founded in 1998 and developed a novel laser processing system using a patented control algorithm to control laser power and a scanning system that precisely steers the laser beam over the process material. The basic steering system uses two galvanometer actuators to rotate reflective mirrors that change the location of the laser beam focused on the process material. Traditionally, laser cutting […]

LasX Industries

Responding to Customers’ Needs

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Clean Seal, Inc. of South Bend, Indiana, serves original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and fabricators in the automotive, marine, military, recreational vehicle and transportation industries. In response to customers’ needs, the company continues to expand its line of products and maintains a huge inventory of parts that can be shipped within 24 hours.

Clean Seal

Injection Molder Dominates Industrial Battery Case Space

Richardson Molding, LLC is a very old company with a very modern outlook. The Indiana-based firm specializes in custom plastic injection molding and dominates the industrial battery jar and cover market. The company’s longevity can be attributed to old-fashioned principles of treating workers well combined with a keen appreciation for new technology and industry trends.

Richardson Molding

Safer Work Environments

Heads up! The future is robotic, especially when it comes to Industry 4.0. Not the chatty Star Wars type robot or the antagonistic HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but smart machines doing repetitive, precision or dangerous work – operated remotely by human voice command, touchscreen or joystick. The next generation of skilled workers, in fact, may be technicians who program and manage robotic equipment to undertake difficult or routine tasks, transforming manufacturing and other sectors.