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Consumer Products Industry Newsletter – January 2023

Cross Testing Group Adds New Capabilities

As a consumer products manufacturer, you want to make sure that your product will hold up in the real-world. Whether you are concerned about damage occurring during the shipping process or you want to prevent future warranty claims, product testing is critical.

Cross Company’s Testing Division already offers a wide variety of environmental and vibration testing services to help consumer product manufacturers. However, we recently added a number of new capabilities. New services include: RF testing, CT Scanning, IP code testing, and more!

 

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What's New at Cross

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We can calibrate your portable CMMs!

If you are manufacturing large items like major home appliances you likely have a need for dimensional measurement on a large scale. We’ve found that many of our customers utilize portable CMM arms for dimensional measurement and inspection, but struggle to find reputable calibration providers.

Cross Company’s Precision Measurement Group is excited to share that we can now calibrate your portable CMM arms. Contact us today to request a quote!

Innovating the Industrial World

Finding reliable workers to handle the dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks in your plant can be difficult. Whether you need someone to pick and place items from one conveyor to another or need help palletizing at the end of your line, cobots might be a great solution. However, there are a number of complexities to implementing cobots in your manufacturing environment.

Check out this episode of Cross’s podcast, Innovating the Industrial World. Our host and CEO John King sits down with Manan Banerjee and Mike Holland from our Automation Group to discuss the reasons companies big and small are using collaborative robots to automate manual processes. Learn about the ins and outs from engineers themselves to decide if a cobot is right for you.

Did you know?

Cross Automation’s engineers are industry leaders in end of arm tooling selection and design. Consumer products manufacturers often struggle to find end of arm tooling, particularly in high-mix environments and when their product is oddly shaped or fragile. Whether you need help finding the right off-the-shelf solution or you need a completely custom end effector designed, our team of automation engineers have years of experience and are here to help. Contact us today to discuss your end effector needs.

Cross Provides Tangible Value for You

Reduce Risk

If you are manufacturing personal care products like tooth paste or lotions and potions. You likely have a number of scales and load cells that are critical to your facilities operation.

Reduce your risk of downtime by trusting Cross with your scale repair needs. Cross Precision Measurement is available for 24/7 emergency scale service.

Raise Quality

Your customers trust you to provide them with consistent and reliable products. Manufacturing environments aren’t perfect, so often when there’s an issue in your process, you end up finding out too late and having to scrap or even recall sub par product.

SPC (statistical process control) gives you real-time measurement data so you know your product is consistent. This data allows you to tweak your process without wasting product or raw materials. Contact us for a free 30 day trial.

Improve Efficiency

You work in a fast paced manufacturing environment and don’t have time to chase down equipment when supply chain issues get in the way.

Cross Precision Measurement works with a number scale manufacturers. Let us find a scale solution that is for your application. We also boast very competitive turnaround times so we can get you what you need quickly.

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Did you know… Cross Company is an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). Our ESOP started in 1979 and as of 2006, we are 100% employee-owned! Learn more about our ESOP and how that benefits both team members and our customers.
Did you know... the precision measurement group at Cross was founded in 1939 by our current CEO's grandfather, Jim King. That's a whole lot of calibration!
Did you know... A fingerprint weighs about 50 micrograms. We know, we weighed it! The residue left from a finger can actually make a difference in weight results which is why we wear gloves when we calibrate weights. For reference, a sheet of paper is about 4.5 grams, that’s 4.5 million micrograms.
Did you know… Cross Company has grown significantly since our start in 1954. Over the years we've acquired 26 companies! Today, our five groups have expertise in everything from industrial automation to precision measurement, and industry knowledge going all the way back to 1939.