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Turkey has a status in international manufacturing that few can rival: it is positioned in Europe and Asia simultaneously, has customs agreements with the European Union, and operates its industrial sector exporting a variety of goods including automotive and white goods, and even low-voltage electronic devices, on three continents. That means Turkey’s manufacturers experience pressure […]

A German manufacturer of contactors faced the challenge of increasing its production from 600 to 2,000 units per hour without additional floor space and found the solution in investing in the high-speed automation line. This production line includes assembly, calibration, testing, and marking in a continuous synchronized process with cycle times measured in seconds. It […]

When a company that manufactures medical devices in Massachusetts required a validated and properly documented assembly cell to create its latest surgical device, it didn’t turn to a supplier of robots. Instead, the company contacted a systems integrator — an organization that specializes in bringing together technologies such as robots, conveyor systems, vision systems and […]

A miniature circuit breaker OEM factory in Haryana, India, was running 8 to 10 hour shifts and still topping out at 2,000 poles per day. Its biggest customer, Siemens India, needed monthly volumes the manual line simply could not deliver, no matter how much overtime was scheduled. Faced with the choice between losing the contract […]

A European electrical wholesaler’s procurement manager went to a new potential supplier’s circuit breaker factory. Instead of asking for company brochures, he asked to see the production floor. In less than ten minutes, he could see that hand calibration of thermal trip devices was handled by workers and that a whole row of thermal trip […]

A mid-sized electrical manufacturer in Thailand had its manual MCB calibration line replaced with automated testing and assembly equipment in 2023 solely due to the 1.2% defect rate of the manually calibrated circuit breakers, which prompted a warning by one significant European client. After two years of operating the automated line, defect rates dropped to […]