Case Studies
Power monitoring sweetens the pot at Hershey
Like any industrial enterprise, The Hershey Company manufacturing plant in Stuarts Draft, Va., needs electrical power to create its treats. But unlike most enterprises, plant management has taken a proactive approach to power usage...

Time is gas: Ethanol plant builder uses integrated switchboards to reduce construction time and costs
As gas prices soar, so does the need for ethanol. ICM Inc., of Colwich, Kansas designs, builds and supports ethanol plants...

ATS helps increase overall machine availability to 99.7
percent For J&L Fiber Services
J&L Fiber Services, Waukesha, Wisconsin, provides pulp, paper, and board process optimization solutions. Its core products include refiner fillings and screen cylinders for pulp, paper, MDF
and other board applications. However, it was experiencing high production costs due to lost productivity caused by excessive machine downtime...

Safety
If a CNC machine falls in the forest...
and there’s no one to hear it, will your wife yell at you anyway?

Survey Results
Ready or not!
Here it comes. Some of us have learned the lessons of recent natural disasters. Others haven’t – yet. Woe unto you...

Uptime
Lift truck maintenance
A well maintained lift truck fleet can improve the productivity of your material handling operations...

Repairing aluminum
Weld your way to successful aluminum repairs...

Reservoir “clogs”
Cleaning its oil reservoirs gave this company cleaner oil, dramatically longer filter life and more than $28,000 in savings...

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Power monitoring at Hershey
Advanced tools and software make Hershey’s power flow as smooth as syrup...

Running robots
AGVs help this automaker run like a well oiled machine...

Shanghai’s a gas!
Switching to a U.S.-based company’s compressor oil doubled production at this gas plant...