{"id":11916,"date":"2023-05-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.misumiusa.com\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:50:05","slug":"abco-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/abco-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"How ABCO Automation Inc. Uses MISUMI\u2019s Configurable Solution to Engineer High-Performing Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In recent years, sustaining growth and profitability in the custom machine building market has been challenging. Machine builders have had to learn to be receptive to innovation to stay competitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABCO Automation Inc., specializing in automation systems, integrated robotic systems, and machine builds, has consistently decreased costs and increased profits by looking for new opportunities to improve machine build processes \u2014 including partnering with MISUMI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to learn how MISUMI\u2019s configurable model helped support ABCO while engineering high-performing machines for a wide range of customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facing competitive challenges to meet diverse customer needs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ABCO Automation, Inc., located in Greensboro, North Carolina, builds machines for a vast number of industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABCO is known for having an extremely diverse customer base. By servicing customers from a variety of industries, ABCO is less susceptible to economic fluctuations that may impact any single industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there are still challenges. With a diverse customer portfolio comes lots of competition, which puts a lot of cost, time, and performance pressures on ABCO\u2019s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competition and sustainable growth in such a market requires ABCO to develop long term, mutually beneficial relationships with customers. To this end, ABCO is committed to providing customers with a single source for innovative solutions, automation services, and manufacturing support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The search for a cost-effective component solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To sustain customer satisfaction, ABCO is always searching for new sourcing methods for custom components\u2014 including a more cost-effective source for machined linear shafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The procurement process for useable machined shafts entailed first purchasing blank linear shafts from a distributor and then machining the shafts using the internal machine shop resources at ABCO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process was costly for ABCO. Fortunately, the company reached out to MISUMI and discovered configurable linear shafts<\/a> with the ability to specify length, diameter, shaft end style, material and surface treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total, each packaging machine contained approximately 10,000 components. Of these, approximately 3,000 were MISUMI components. Common components used included linear shafts<\/a>, flanged linear bushings<\/a>, strut clamps<\/a>, locating pins<\/a>, locating bushings<\/a>, belts,<\/a> bearings<\/a>, plates<\/a>, bolts<\/a> and rollers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flanged Linear Bushings<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Configured for long-lasting results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By using configurable<\/em> components instead of custom<\/em> components, ABCO was able to significantly reduce the total component count of the machine. This accelerated the machine design and build process because the machine components fit together so well, and it also led to a shortening of the machine testing phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the machine was easier to duplicate, which led to long-term benefits such as lower maintenance and less machine downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cost-savings was also a long-lasting result. ABCO was able to come in under budget for the design and build of multiple packaging machines, thanks to MISUMI configurable solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABCO believes that using MISUMI as a supplier of configurable and standard components has greatly benefited the business as it directly benefits ABCO customers as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about how MISUMI\u2019s configurable solution works, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn how ABCO Automation Inc. used MISUMI’s configurable component solution for 3,000 parts across multiple machine builds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":13997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[1357,6,1136],"tags":[1359,531,941,835,1358,342,71],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13998,"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions\/13998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}