Application Spotlight: Clear Advantages for Window Machine Maker

Manufacturing custom windows for architects is both an exacting business and an extremely cost-sensitive undertaking. By automating their fenestration equipment, DeMichele Group meets their customers' price and precision goals in a way that makes designing each new machine quicker and easier. See how strategic alliances with key suppliers yield a system with superior productivity in the most compact space possible.

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00:00:13 [Music] [Music] it does fabrication is cutting accurately lays all the holes out this is three to four clc machines in one we needed slides motors things like that that can operate in a compact space but yet still do the

00:01:15 job and be reliable every minute the machine is down the customer is losing money and the owners get very upset they can't wait for a part to come from germany they can't wait for a piece of equipment to show up two months later the job is done

00:01:33 the software has to be user friendly easy to use yet still get the job done and that was that we definitely had some challenges there any person that's working in the shop currently that is not afraid of a computer can operate this machine [Music] yaskawa was very compact very powerful

00:02:09 very precise they showed us video of these motors working in the car industry where it's oily dirty and that sold me it is a very reliable product when we get it in here we have very very few problems with yaskawa at all we needed to build a bridge between our

00:02:28 software and this new motion control package and with msi tech the solution partner of yaskawa offered us this service to ride those on boards so we can address the motion control with our pc language and move the whole machine the nice thing about it was we at msi

00:02:49 have enough experience blending pc technology with industrial control technology that it was um fairly easy to com to make the communication bridge between the two arc architectures so we were able to get to market quickly the trajectory that it allowed us to go in would have been impossible without yaskawa

00:03:13 we have 400 machines scattered all over north america it would have been impossible to service that or to maintain a reputation of reliability and service responsiveness without it we would have never been able to do it plain and simple why because this is a smaller industry and competitors

00:03:33 they talk you live by who you are our name is who we are and people know who we are and if we had to put out a bad product it would have put us out of business because all it takes is three or four guys talking bad about you and you you know you're not successful the proof is in the pudding and we have actually been successful in

00:03:51 it without that we wouldn't be able to do it you