2024
UPCOMING EVENTS
2024
UPCOMING EVENTS
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INFORMATION & SUCCESSES
What’s New in Press-Line Part Transfer?
One common-sense area where data collection provides actionable intelligence is preventive maintenance of capital equipment, including press lines and their major components. More specifically, unexpected component failure on a press-transfer system turns an entire press line into [...]
Innovative Press-Linking Automation for Tandem Lines Reduces Costs and Space
Linear Automation and its strategic German partner Strothmann Machines & Handling GmbH have introduced the FeederPlus 6neo to the North American Market. The single-arm feeder links two presses together in a press line, removing a formed [...]
Blank Feeding – Why and When?
I wanted to better understand why and when some metal stamping facilities may opt to feed their presses with blanks (whether cut inline or offline) rather than coil, so I posed the question to Paul Stirrett, [...]
Linear Transfer Allies with Strothmann Automation
Linear Transfer Automation has forged a strategic alliance with Germany-based Strothmann Automation. The exclusive technology agreement covers the North American market for Strothmann’s compact-crossbar and high-speed tandem press line automation products. Linear Transfer will provide sales [...]
Automation Resuscitates Legacy Press Line
The project came to fruition in May 2020. That spring, the press was rejuvenated when Linear Transfer Automation retrofitted it with a new three-axis servo-transfer system; a high-speed pick-and-place blank feeder with two stack carts and [...]
Linear Automation has Expanded
Since 1994, Linear has been the product leader in servo transfer systems, blank feeders, blank stacking solutions, and press-to-press tandem line automation. As Linear grows, we are continually adding products, capabilities, and services to our portfolio. Today, [...]
Servomechanical Presses Drive Auto-Part Productivity Gains
Pleased with its initial foray into servomechanical press technology, in 2021 Omex purchased another 630-ton DSF-M2, identical to the first save for a longer 168-in. bed. Omex teamed this press with a transfer from Linear Automation. [...]
Key Players in Barrie’s Manufacturing Industry
Barrie’s low costs of doing business help automation and precision manufacturers stay competitive internationally. Barrie is home to Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive parts manufacturers. The city is one of southern Ontario’s automotive parts clusters, [...]
Saturn Tool & Die – “If you build it they will come”
Linear Transfer Automation Inc. was recently featured in an article in the Stamping Journal. This article does a great job of reinforcing the notion that a new Transfer System can drive new business to any stamping venture. [...]
Servo Transfers Add Speed at Ford Flat Rock
Linear Transfer Automation, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, replaced all five, beginning in 2010, with the latest ETF entering production this past July. “The new ETFs are offering a 35-percent improvement over the mechanical transfer systems, ” says [...]
Linear Transfer Automation Inc. & Rittal: Blazing a Trail Through the Automation Industry
Linear has been an integral part of the metal stamping and automation industry, over the years we have helped plants develop technologically advanced systems to help reduce material waste, lower maintenance costs, and improve production speeds. [...]
