Avoid downtime with a microgrid; Arburg IMM slims down; Wittmann conveyor controller: Machinery Minutes, Oct. 28

Our Monday podcast gives you a quick rundown on three stories of interest.

Welcome to Machinery Minutes, where at the beginning of each week Senior Reporter Bruce Geiselman shares three things you need to know.

No. 1 – Could a microgrid keep your plastics processing operation humming when your electrical power fails? PMM Editor Ron Shinn thinks it's wise to consider one. Read more.

No. 2 – Arburg introduced a slimmer version of its Allrounder Alldrive 630 A injection molding machine at Fakuma. Read more.

No. 3 -- Wittmann recently presented its E-MAX 2 conveyor controller for smaller- to medium-sized conveying systems. Read more.

About the Author

Bruce Geiselman

Senior Reporter Bruce Geiselman covers plastics processing technologies and end markets including automotive and packaging. He also writes features, including In Other Words and Problem Solved, for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing and The Journal of Blow Molding. He has decades of experience in daily and magazine journalism, including eight years at PMM, and is the recipient of a Jesse H. Neal Award, among other recognitions.

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