Background In the 1980’s a manufacturing cooperative was formed to provide numerous plants of a well-known beverage company with hundreds of millions of bottles each year. As part of its blow molding machine mix, the cooperative purchased (17) Sidel blow molders capable of a daily output of 800,000 to 1,000,000 bottles per day. These machines...Continue Reading

An automated manufacturing system is the total integration of software and machinery used to create a system that performs manufacturing processes autonomously through computer programming. Without automated manufacturing systems, factory output would be vastly reduced, production would be very time consuming, working conditions would be less safe and quality control would be extremely difficult. Employees...Continue Reading