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MOTION TECH TRENDS
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| CLIENT: | A well known underwater equipment manufacturer. |
| SITUATION: | Production testing and valve adjustment done manually. |
| PROBLEM: | High labor cost, reduced reliability. |
| SOLUTION: | Applied PC based controller to automate valve adjustment and leak test. |
| RESULT: | Test staff reduced by 75% as production quadrupled. |
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| CLIENT: | A printer manufacturer. |
| SITUATION: | High end printing with continuous paper motion. |
| PROBLEM: | Controls were interacting with other parts of electronics causing equipment failure. |
| SOLUTION: | Revised control strategy after just one day of analysis. System stabilized. |
| RESULT: | Control system cost cut in half. Production back to normal
with on time shipping. |
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| CLIENT: | A U. S. Motor Manufacturer. |
| SITUATION: | Client manufactures integral horsepower AC motors focused in a single market. Needing to expand their target markets, they decided to sell into the industrial market with a new series of under 1 HP motors. |
| PROBLEM: | Client recognized the internal lack of individual motors for the industrial market. Motor environment was considerably more hostile than their traditional markets. |
| SOLUTION: | MTT developed a family of smaller AC Induction motors for the general industrial markets. Products needed to be splash proof and operate in temperatures up to 155 degrees C. |
| RESULT: | A complete package with prototypes and documentation was delivered
to the client. |
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| CLIENT: | A large OEM paper motion equipment producer. |
| SITUATION: | Multiple axis paper motion control required. |
| PROBLEM: | Excessive electronics control cost, motion control package too large & consumed too much power. |
| SOLUTION: | Designed digital controls (patent pending on power amp design). |
| RESULT: | Package reduced in size by 6:1. Cost reduced 2.5:1. |
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| CLIENT: | A manufacturer of automated press feed machines. |
| SITUATION: | Using large sized step motors in wide load variation application. |
| PROBLEM: | Extremely high field failure rate in amplifier unit. High cost of amplifier and control. |
| SOLUTION: | MTT professionals reviewed circuit blueprints. Identified under specified components, inefficient use of components and poor circuit board applications. Client implemented changes. |
| RESULT: | Reduced field failures by 7:1. Cost by 40%. |