Good food, great company, and even better conversations! ControlTouch hosted a company BBQ, bringing the team together for a well-earned break. But this wasn’t just any BBQ—our leadership team took charge of the cooking, from grilling up burgers to preparing delicious side dishes! Between the great food and shared laughs, it was a perfect reminder […]
Case Study | Seattle-Tacoma International Airport improves baggage handling system’s availability and reliability to keep travelers moving and on-time.
New York City recently celebrated the opening of the new Moynihan Train Hall, a 255,000 square foot train hall that transformed the more than 100-year old James A. Farley Building into a 21st-century transit hub. Named after former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and featuring over an acre of soaring skylights, this world-class transportation hub […]
Do Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems make sense for your operation? In many material-handling operations, RFID has proven to have advantages over other tracking technologies. It is known for having a higher accuracy in read rate percentages, fewer errors and more durable tags. A RFID system has the potential to pay for itself over time due to the potential increases in efficiency and decreases in errors.
3d Renderings Help Create Visual Management What is Visual Management? The definition from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) of visual management is the placement in plain view of all tools, parts, production activities, and indicators of production system performance, so the status of the system can be understood at a glance by everyone involved. Visual […]
Case Study on Ted Stevens International Airport Last month due to the impact of the coronavirus, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) in Anchorage, Alaska, briefly became the busiest airport in the world. ANC tweeted, “On Saturday, April 25, ANC was the world’s busiest airport for aircraft operations. This points to how significantly the global […]
How we use Emulate3D to reduce risk, time, and costs. In the material handling and baggage handling world, engineers work together at the project site to install, program, test, and debug the system for weeks or even months. This process is called commissioning. Commissioning is the process of assuring that all systems and components of […]