Safety Solutions for Machine Builders
Safety is one area where it never pays to cut corners. Thanks to advances in automation technology, more machine builders are discovering how to design systems that improve productivity without compromising safety. For your customers, this means not only delivering flexible, high-performance machines at a competitive price, but also equipping them with all of the safety control features they will need.
We know how to help you implement safety solutions to meet your goals by using our wide range of innovative safety products. Our standard products have embedded safety features like safe off, safe speed and safe networks, so safety can be built into your machines at less cost and effort than traditional solutions.
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View our Safety Simulation: Safe Zone Control, before and after videos, to see how you can increase productivity with GuardShield™ Components.
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A well-designed, well-implemented safety system can help increase productivity and profits, while meeting key regulatory requirements for providing a safer place to work. Just as important, companies are focusing more on their safety records and processes, which are becoming as critical to manufacturers as their output reports and cost-reduction efforts. This trend is shifting the way equipment is designed. That is, instead of adding safety components to an existing control system, machine builders more proactively consider safety control options early in the design process.
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OEM Solutions - Building on Your Success
As a manufacturer of industrial automation equipment, you understand that one solution does not fit all. You are building machines with different levels of automation, and looking for flexibility. You are also looking for ways to improve your time to market and reduce your Total Cost to Design, Develop and DeliverSM machines, while focusing on innovation and machine throughput and performance. In addition, you are looking for cooperative partnerships with suppliers and customers to improve business performance.
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Korea's World Industries Corp Improves Time to Market by 37%
Korea’s World Industries Ace Corp. (Wia) is a large machinery manufacturer making stamping presses, steel making machinery, machine tools and automobile parts.Wia had the opportunity to serve a manufacturer in Mexico that wanted two fully automated large skin panel presses to make automobile sections such as engine hoods, roofs, and body sides. The customer required standardized products and a packaged solution. Rockwell Automation solution is key to the success of this project.
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