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When a facility acquired three stainless steel mixing vessels with motors and control panels installed in them, the maintenance supervisor was confronted with the age-old question again. The question in consideration was whether these new pieces of equipment needed to undergo PAT testing prior to their utilization in the workplace, or whether the CE marking […]

In a fully automated production line within a beverage factory, something went awry when the machine happened to fill every 12th bottle with 2 millilitres of beverage less than the specified amount. The line’s inspection equipment failed to notice the deviation since it fell within the tolerance limit of the camera that was being utilized. […]

In 2022, a medium-sized auto parts supplier in the Midlands launched an automated assembly unit, justified by an ironclad business case indicating a simple payback period of 22 months based on labor savings and throughput increase. Three months after launch, the unit was collecting dust. The existing IT infrastructure of the firm could not communicate […]

A food processing establishment located in Midlands halted its operations for the yearly maintenance period wherein the engineering department had a work list of 340 items for completion before the resuming of operations. On day 10, out of the 14, the inspections unveiled that an essential steam valve in the pasteuriser had developed internal corrosion […]

During the visit of a mid-sized electrical manufacturer from Gujarat to Automate 2026 in Detroit, he strolled through the exhibits looking for the same robotics, vision systems, and integrator stations that he had come across in his previous visit in 2024. However, he was surprised to see that there has been a shift in the […]

When a spice trader in Kerala decided to invest in a small packing machine instead of manually filling the spices in pouches, he had a very basic question, “What’s the cost?” The answer he received had a wide difference of prices ranging from ₹65,000 to ₹4.5 lakhs — a difference that seemed meaningless unless he […]