Hot Off the Press

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Use this Connectivity Guide
to Help with Data Gathering

The MTConnect Institute has released "Getting Started with MTConnect--Connectivity Guide," providing a structured framework to guide companies through the assessment of connectivity issues associated with new and legacy manufacturing equipment. Says David McPhail, president and CEO of Memex Automation and co-chair of the MTConnect Shop Floor Connectivity Committee: “By applying the techniques defined n the guide, essentially every piece of manufacturing equipment can now be integrated into a manufacturing data system.” Download the document at www.mtconnect.org.

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Safety Seminars Heading
for Ontario and Rochester

Ross Controls, Troy, MI, has scheduled its Total Machine Safety seminars for fall 2011. The curriculum, which addresses electrical and fluid-power machine safeguarding, is aimed at maintenance supervisors, safety engineers and managers and engineering managers, to help companies reduce risks in the workplace. Topics covered include safety circuits, lockout/tagout and hazard and risk assessment. Upcoming dates and locations: November 8, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; November 10, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada; and November 11, Rochester, NY. Learn more at www.totalmachinesafety.com.

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Wayne Trail Awash in Customer Recognition

Wayne Trail Technologies, Fort Loramie, OH, has received the Highest Unit Sales Award for a system integrator from Yaskawa Motoman, having sold more Motoman robots than any other integrator throughout North and South America. The recognition comes on the heels of Wayne Trail Technologies earning a 2011 Supplier Excellence Award from Rhinestahl CTS, for the second year in a row. Rhinestahl, Mason, OH, manufactures aircraft-maintenance equipment, and contracts with Wayne Trail’s Build to Print Manufacturing Services Group. More at www.waynetrail.com.

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