Machine Builder Industry Newsletter – April 2023

Case Study: Cross Partners with MAPtech to Build a Better Machine

Cross has worked with MAPtech for 15 years helping them make a better modified atmosphere packaging machine for their customers. Click below to see how Cross helped MAPtech reduce risk and raise the quality of their machine.

What's New at Cross

Add value for your customers with automated loading and unloading

As an equipment manufacturer, you are focused on creating the best possible machine for your customer. A great way to add value could be incorporating a cobot to load or unload your machine.

Automating manual tasks like loading and unloading can help your customers to improve the efficiency of their process while also helping with the current labor shortages being experienced across many industries. 

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Cross is  an authorized distributor for Doosan Robotics and we would love to have a conversation with you about how integrating a cobot into your machine could help add value for your customers. Contact us today to learn more!

Reduce Your Risk And Increase Efficiency With Customized Solutions

The engineers at Cross Company’s Automation Group work with customers and manufacturers every day to specify the perfect single product for an application. But what happens if there isn’t a perfect product to do what you need it to do? What happens if it’s three or four products? A customized solution may be the best option.

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When you’re designing a machine or a process, you know that it needs to perform a particular function. But what if accomplishing that task requires two, three, four or even more parts? Cross Company can help by working with you to specify the needed parts, even across multiple vendors, and assembling it for you. When your custom solution arrives, it feels like just one part and is easily dropped into your process or machine.

Did you know?

Our Automation Team are precision motion control experts. We recently helped a customer by sizing a servo and gearbox system that allowed a machine builder to rotate a six ft diameter 250 pound table 40 degrees in 0.66 seconds while achieving a repeatability of 0.0005 degrees!

Do you have a challenging application that requires precision motion control? If so, we’d love to help! Contact us today.

Cross Provides Tangible Value for You

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Improve Efficiency

Oftentimes subassemblies can help you to significantly improve the efficiency of your assembly process. In addition, your team doesn’t spend time specifying individual components, instead you can focus on what you do best and leave that to our automation experts.

Click below to read about how Cross helped a manufacturer of conveyor equipment improve their efficiency with a custom subassembly.

Raise Quality

A strong calibration program is key to building a quality machine. Ensuring that you are manufacturing consistent components for your equipment is critical. Whether you are measuring using hand tools, optical comparators, CMMs, or even video measurement equipment calibration is critical.

Cross Precision measurement has a industry leading scope of accreditation. Chances are, if you need it calibrated we can help. Click below to see the wide array of calibration services we offer.

Reduce Risk

Do you need to pick up a difficult item such as a bag of liquid with our risking damage to the package or product?

Finding the right vacuum cups for pneumatic picking can be complicated. Click below to see how vacuum cups from Coval can provide a perfect solution for those difficult applications.

See how our team can help improve quality, increase efficiency, and reduce risk

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s exclusive distributors of the OGP line of precision measurement equipment, we can help you specify, install, program and train on their products so you can be as efficient as possible with your dimensional measurements without compromising on accuracy.
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In the meantime, enjoy these fun facts…

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.