How Can We Improve Energy Efficiency in Industry? If you are involved in the manufacturing, food and beverage, or energy industry, then you’re well aware of what a significant cost energy represents in the industrial environment. Across Aotearoa and ...
What is A Human Machine Interface (HMI)? When you think about modern production lines, the first things that come to mind might be robotics, automation, or high-speed interconnected design, all of which feature heavily. However, there’s one ...
How does CNC Design see 5G benefitting New Zealand industry? As the volume of data from connected equipment increases, efficient data transfer to higher-order systems becomes that much more critical. Data is being analysed and used in subsequent operations, and...
How does CNC Design see Gudel benefitting New Zealand industry? The Güdel Group, established in 1954 and based in Langenthal, Switzerland, is a manufacturer of high-precision machine components and provider of sophisticated automation solutions. Its spectrum of pr...
What is the Difference Between HMI and GUI? Anyone who interacts at a professional level with modern technology may have heard two of the most well-known terms that describe these interactions: HMI and GUI. While both of these acronyms describe...
What Are the Four Types of Automation? Becoming a leader in the manufacturing industry means doing everything you can to maximise productivity on the line, while reserving human effort for complex tasks. Increasingly, companies are doing t...
What is Automation in the Manufacturing Industry? As an industry professional breaking into the field, you might be wondering what manufacturing industry automation is really about. It’s bigger than machines. In fact, most companies are rethinking ho...
Innovations for automated assembly lines Client: Production Machinery Limited Industry: Household appliance manufacturing Project: Designing automation technology for manufacturing appliances Manufacturing world-leading appliance lines for F... #IndustryManufacturing #Siemens CaseStudy SiemensNewZealand SiemensNewZealandCaseStudy
Automation Engineering Forensics Brings Machine Back to Life A Human Machine Interface (HMI) failure on a cross-flow wine filtering machine, who’s OEM had closed down, causes owner headaches. The original machine dealer referred the machine owner onto CNC Desig... #Siemens CaseStudy SiemensNewZealand SiemensNewZealandCaseStudy
Turnkey retrofit for a vacuum thermoforming machine Retrofit for a 1980s Illig vacuum thermoforming machine Client: Kohler New Zealand Limited Industry: Bathroom fixtures Project: Upgrading an aging German Illig vacuum forming machine to support improv... #IndustryManufacturing #Siemens CaseStudy SiemensNewZealand SiemensNewZealandCaseStudy
Drives on the shelf? Reform them! Have you planned ahead and invested in spare servo or VSD drives on your shelf, to get yourself up and running ASAP in case of breakdown? If yes, that’s brilliant self insurance against extended machi...
Looking after Siemens automation equipment for Independent Liquor’s factory automation Looking after Siemens automation equipment for Independent Liquor’s factory automation Client: Independent Liquor, a member of the Asahi Beverages Group Industry: Food and beverage Project: On-demand ... #IndustryFood #Siemens CaseStudy SiemensNewZealand SiemensNewZealandCaseStudy