IBT Provides Palletizer
Wednesday 16-12-2009, By: Administrator
Synopsis: A global manufacturing company and IBT recently designed, built and installed a robotic gantry system for palletizing boxes onto pallets at the company's Nebraska plant. The company worked in conjunction...
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Argument for Engineering
Friday 13-02-2009, By: Administrator
It's early 2009 and the world economy has seen better times. Despair is not rampant - but it isn't hard to find. Economic conditions don't adjust overnight, so managers have...
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Path to Engineering Career
Tuesday 10-06-2008, By: Administrator
IBT Engineering staffers have been at IBT for as little as six months or as long as 35 years. They have studied math and physics, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, manufacturing...
Read moreThe Lighter Side of Engineers
Friday 08-02-2008, By: Administrator
There are a lot of jokes dealing with engineers, probably because many of us deal with engineers on a regular basis. In some of the jokes, engineers are the butts...
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Solving Complex Puzzles
Monday 06-08-2007, By: Administrator
IBT's Engineering Services Group is in the value-added business. As team member Jim Boatright puts it, "We sell time, knowledge, expertise. We put together system solutions that are in response...
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An Engineer's Mind
Monday 06-08-2007, By: Administrator
Engineering, as we do it at IBT, is a challenging and rewarding job. We are never sure what each day, each project, each new piece of input will do. We...
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Moving Wheels
Monday 02-04-2007, By: Administrator
A plant that manufactures wheels for passenger vehicles has installed an elaborate conveying system to move work in process through its plant. IBT Engineering Services and IBT Material Handling Group...
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Making It Happen
Friday 01-12-2006, By: Administrator
As an outside sales rep for IBT in Greater Kansas City, Chris Sharp has had great success at selling engineering projects. In 2006, he closed sales for nine of the...
Read moreConveying Fiberglass
Thursday 01-06-2006, By: Administrator
At a large fiberglass plant in a southern state, they have a machine that squishes enough fiberglass insulation to fill at least a whole wall of your house down to...
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Dairy Device
Saturday 01-04-2006, By: Administrator
IBT Builds Robotic Palletizer System for Dairy Products Working in a cool (35° F/2° C) environment, stacking dairy products on pallets is a job, to be sure, but...
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Real Customer Service
Wednesday 01-02-2006, By: Administrator
I noticed that the weather was a little odd on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. I was at Home Depot that afternoon and the ominous sky made me wonder whether...
Read moreTen Tips to Doing Right the First Time
Saturday 01-10-2005, By: Administrator
Managing the process of any complex job can be a bear. Failing to manage it, however, can make a nightmare seem like a welcome respite. The key is to start...
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From Opportunity to Operation: Creating …
Saturday 01-10-2005, By: Administrator
"One of the interesting things about working in the IBT Engineering Department," Bruce Loyd and his key lieutenants Jim Boatright and Alan Beech report, "is that you never know what...
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IBT Engineering Services
Sunday 01-05-2005, By: Administrator
IBT was among the first industrial distributors in the nation to provide a full range of engineering services when they established a specialized engineering division for industrial automation, the IBT...
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Meet Bruce Loyd - New Engineering Manage…
Sunday 01-05-2005, By: Administrator
In January of this year, Bruce Loyd came aboard at IBT as the new Manager of Engineering. In this capacity, he leads a staff of seven. The Department is primarily...
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Building the World's Most Expensive Soda…
Sunday 02-01-2005, By: Administrator
You get thirsty. You put your hand in your pocket to get your money. You put your money into the machine and push a button. Ka-chunk - here's your cold...
Read moreFeed Mills That Run Themselves
Friday 01-10-2004, By: Administrator
Running a feed mill can be a pretty complicated process. There is grain to receive and store. Ingredients to be processed, mixed, weighed, and transported through the plant. There are...
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Successful IBT Automation Projects
Friday 01-10-2004, By: Administrator
Pillsbury - IBT has provided the conveyor systems for three (3) new production lines at the Pillsbury plant in Joplin, MO. The lines were part of two expansion projects taken...
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Knowledge on Tap
Sunday 01-08-2004, By: Administrator
Professionalism is made up of education, experience and approach. In many fields, some disciplined ways for evaluating situations enable the professional practitioner to bring effective solutions to unfamiliar problems. Because...
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IBT's Proven Expertise
Sunday 01-08-2004, By: Administrator
There are many organizations to turn to if you are looking for material handling equipment and systems. Companies large and small throughout the midwest act as manufacturers representatives, distributors, consolidators,...
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