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Major Tier 1 Automotive Supplier Automate their Headliner Manufacturing Facility
In order to win their new contract with Ford Motor Company, a major Tier 1 automotive supplier needed to completely automate their headliner manufacturing facility, and do it fast. A multinational firm, Grupo Antolin manufacturers a variety of components for the automobile industry. Antolin's headliner manufacturing facility, located in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is one of the largest suppliers of headliners to automobile manufacturers in the world. When an increase in production demands at the Kentucky facility required a change in their manufacturing system, Grupo Antolin turned to Connect Inc. and Microscan to pick up the pace on the floor. Click here to read full article...

Data Matrix symbols help Biosite cut waste, save time and save lives
Data Matrix symbols help medical manufacturer track parts By Microscan Biosite, manufacturer of medical test panels, encodes ID tracking numbers in a bar code on each panel. It had problems reading a long Code 39 bar code--even with a machine vision system--so it changed to a Data Matrix code, which it reads easily with Microscan Quadrus MINI scanners. Click here to read full article...

Code reading with In-Sight saves Sony money
By Cognex
Sony in Malaysia is using the In-Sight 5110 for code reading on PCBs for their MP3 players. Each PCB passes along a conveyer on 9 production lines and is marked with a Datamatrix code containing product information in 10 characters measuring only 1 mm x 1 mm in size. Read full article...