On Nov. 29, 2016, 26-year-old Jonathan Gilmore was guiding electrical wiring cable into a re-spool machine. Gilmore, a Gulf Cable LLC employee, became caught in the equipment, crushing him to death.

We’ve seen a fair number of automated wire cutting builds before, and with good reason: cutting lots of wires by hand is repetitive and carries the risk of injury. What’s common to all these automated ...

Sixto Erik Moralez is a Regional Motion Engineer with the Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America. Motion-control technology helped automate spoolchanging operations on machines that coil tubing, ...

A spool-to-spool guidewire-grinding system integrates multiple processing steps. Procedures for grinding medical guidewires commonly begin with cutting wires to length. A machine operator then ...