Customer Stories

Kalaya, the baby elephant who lives in Knies Children’s Zoo in the Swiss town of Rapperswil, is thriving. Every day her growth is measured, both in meters and centimeters

The prospect of replacing a vehicle scale before its time can leave a business owner shuddering. In addition to the high cost of buying a new scale, the disruption caused by downtime is a major concern. For many businesses with troublesome scales, there is a simpler solution: a load-cell upgrade.

Downtime during the peak season can eat up an agricultural operation’s profits. To improve productivity, a cotton processor needed a solution for the maintenance problems that were plaguing its vehicle scale. Replacing old load cells with advanced technology gave new life to the company’s aging scale

A Scottish whiskey producer requires filling quantities of no more than +3 milliliters per bottle. Now the whisky maker optimizes its filling processes and restricts inspections to five bottles per hour without experiencing a drop in quality.

Imagine walking the length of the United States. A group of about 12 employees at SMC’s Indiana site did just that. They walked more than 3,500 miles each year throughout the manufacturing facility during its cycle counting process.

Sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest difference. This is especially true in the manufacturing of precision plastic parts. If the parts are made or shipped incorrectly, it could lead to failure of that final product and the company could lose its reputation as a trusted supplier.

The quality of textiles is highly dependent on the quality of the raw materials used to manufacture them. To improve the order-picking process, one yarn manufacturer implemented a classifying application to sort finished yarn rolls and load customer-specified groupings via barcodes onto the scale for increased throughput and order fulfillment accuracy.