Safe and Efficient Box Opening
A dangerous process most have ignored for years.
What happens when workers are handed razor sharp knives to cut open hundreds of pallets of boxes? Eventually someone gets cut, sometimes badly. Repetitive motion such as lifting and cutting boxes causes disabling injuries. Box opening remains one of the most common and dangerous [...]
1. Order Picking Process
Problem:
Many companies still rely on printing paper tickets to pick orders. Even at low volumes, this process ignores the number of steps taken to find the pick locations from one order to the next. Order accuracy also becomes an issue at the time of picking and through the packing process; requiring a [...]
Prosper, TX, December 27, 2010, Cornerstone Automation Systems, Inc. was recently capitalized as Cornerstone Automation Systems, LLC.
The new team consists of investors from CIC II, LP and Michael Doke as equity partners, Thomas Karol, Gus Freshwater, and Kevin Beattie are operating partners for Cornerstone. Michael Cannonie has sold his interest to [...]
Cornerstone designed the 4th generation standard PC based controller to replace the 1100AC2. The new CASI Core has some great features including solid state drive and Windows 7 OS. The optional CASI Core S model runs SQL Server and NEMA 4X washdown controller models are available.
See the new automation controller
The CASI Core controller is light [...]
It seems there is a machine or software solution out there for just about anything imaginable. In the material handling world this also rings true to the degree there is someone willing to buy such a solution or pay to have it custom built. One area that is often ignored even by some of the [...]
Most companies do not consider the extra costs of installing a conveyor system aside from the material and engineering they purchase from the seller or integrator. The fact is, traditional 480 volt conveyors require large electrical panels as well as onsite PLC programming.
In today’s world, 24 volt conveyors offer a lot of advantages. First off, [...]
CASI has opened this category to discuss all things material handling related not covered in other categories.
Topics could include
Systems in general
Automation versus manual tasks
Equipment questions
Layout and design / Planning