Wireless Technology Provides Networking Solution For Manufacturer
With complex relocations came the need for this manufacturer of power-transmission components for mining and offshore drilling to upgrade the PC hardware and LAN (Local Area Network) connections associated with their CNC machines. The machines were placed in an area that did not have easy access to the LAN connections.

Company Views A Paperless Future
In spite of high precision machinery employed in this plant, engineers were forced to carry program updates on floppy disks to each individual operator. This meant inefficiencies, duplicated effort and production lags, especially when they added 15 new machines to its plant floor in a 2-year period.

Less Paper, More Information
Getting rid of the thousands of paper tapes was this shop's first objective--an objective that would best be accomplished through some sort of distributed numerical control (DNC) system. The system they selected took them from 'punched' to 'paperless.'