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Innovative-IDM president Gene Gray announces the company’s highest performing team members. Today, we learn about the All-Pro Teams and reveal the winners of the CIA Informant Award. The numbers are in for our Repairs Department Super Heroes awards. And we learn the identities of the “Employees of the Year” in Customer Service, Manufacturing, and Repairs....

We were messing around in our Dallas shop yesterday (all of our shops have a wooden pirate ship on the bench) and thought we’d share how to remove the Yaskawa A1000 terminal board. The Memory Terminal Board feature is designed to decrease Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).  This feature allows maintenance personnel to quickly change...

Manufacturing plants are investing resources in robotics. Since installing a proof-of-concept robotics lab at its Texas headquarters, Innovative-IDM has seen a surge of curious engineers and plant managers asking the question: “How can robots handle my application?” Innovative’s robotics lab currently includes multiple robots integrated with conveyors, vision, AC drives, PLCs and pneumatics. It’s a...

The customer needed a way to guard a machine yet still have access and visibility for that machine. This six-piece, color coded hard guard made from Parker IPS aluminum extrusion does the job. It keeps unwanted arms and hands from pinch points yet offers access areas so operators can still made adjustments to the machine....

How many opportunities do you have to automate a manual process in your manufacturing facility? Look around, you might be surprised. One of my customers had a manufacturing process that required – get this – a worker to bypass a few hydraulic cylinder and valves, then manually push and pry the machine, then climb up on...