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When a layman hears the term smart factory, they may picture a shiny new manufacturing building with end-to-end, “latest and greatest” connected technology.

Baseball is a sport wrapped in tradition, one of which is an umpire making the calls that weigh heavily on the outcome of the game. Now, that decades old tradition is being rocketed into the future with machine vision.

An enormous amount of thought and engineering goes into the process of end-of-line palletizing. In fact, ensuring products arrive at their given destination in top condition is one of the most critical parts of any manufacturing process.

The mission is almost complete. From the front end to the back end, the product has made it to the last step of the manufacturing process and is ready to make its debut to consumers. Quite a feat, if you ask anyone with experience in the manufacturing industry! The term for the final step, ‘end-of-line’ packaging doesn’t seem to do justice to its importance. Your factory uses precision controls and automation equipment to produce your product, but what about the “last 100 feet”?

Whether your New Year’s resolution involves training for and completing a 5k or building that backyard garden shed, it takes dedication and perseverance to see it through. Setting realistic New Year’s resolutions in the professional arena is similar. The key for both is to set specific and measurable goals.

Chemcut Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies wet processing equipment for chemical milling, sign and nameplate, printed circuit board, metal finishing, and waste water treatment industries. Chemcut delivers high-quality, reliable manufacturing solutions to meet their customer’s unique needs, with a mission of creating and producing innovative designs, expert manufacturing, thorough “real-life” testing, and industry-renowned customer service.

Most recently, the goal was to increase efficiency on their packaging lines at their plant located in Casa Grande, Arizona. To do so, Ryan Adame, an Engineer Manager for Daisy Brand’s Arizona location sought out Delta Technology.

If you would like to read about the experience Procter & Gamble had with Delta Technology and read what they had said about us, click below to read the full story.

The partnership with Delta has helped Deca Technologies increase their ability to provide game changing solutions to lead the industry in performance, cost, and technology.

It started with consumer products including smart TVs, phones, thermostats, even refrigerators. Coined the Internet of Things (IoT), this interconnection through the internet of computing devices…

Robots used to be expensive and complicated machines, intimidating to work with and requiring highly skilled technicians. They’ve come a long way in the past 20 years. Now we have the collaborative robot, who’s just another member of the team, not quite to the point of joining the work softball league but an asset just the same.