Today, you’re expected to do more with less. To help meet your key performance indicators and profitability goals, a proven game plan is key. As a manufacturer, you require flexible, scalable asset management solutions for the entire plant floor. CBT and Rockwell Automation use a four-step process to create a customized asset management strategy that will help you avoid downtime, ease staffing burdens, and get back online quickly with minimal impact on production.

CBT partner Martin Sprocket & Gear manufactures its sprockets in a thorough, 10-step process. Check it out:

Hubbell Wiring Device-Kellems first introduced its innovative Twist-Lock devices more than 100 years ago, and they have been leading the industry ever since. Twist-Lock devices are must-have in an industrial environment, protecting users and machinery simultaneously. Hubbell offers a wide array of Twist-Lock devices suitable for almost any manufacturing setting, providing high-quality devices and top-notch performance. 

Limit switches serve many purposes in manufacturing. The NEMA 4 & 5 from Nook Industries offer two and four circuit solutions for varying applications, including machinery, packaging, door operation, hoists, and valves. 

Hardy HI 6500 Series Weight Processors are used  as front ends to control systems or standalone for all types of general weighing applications. Operating blind or with a display, they measure, condition and communicate weight without any need to control.  Hardy Weight Processors come with the full set of Rockwell Automation integration tools such as EDS-AOPs and HMI Faceplates that make PLC integration easy.

The only cable carrier to offer IP54 protection rating, Tsubaki’s chip-tight tube series offers protection in the harshest environments. The TKA Series Cable Carrier reliably protects cables against dirt, chips, and circulating spray water while also preventing ingress of coolants and lubricants. With the enclosed stroke system and pin-hole joint, even large amounts of atomized oil and flying particles no longer pose a problem during cleaning.

Dear Valued Customers, We are pleased to announce that CBT Co. (formerly Cincinnati Belting & Transmission) has acquired the assets of FDL Automation & Supply in Sidney, Ohio. As of today, April 1, 2016 FDL Automation & Supply will conduct business under the name CBT Company. We are excited about the opportunities this presents for both organizations, our employees, associates, and most importantly, our customers. The mutual goal of both organizations during this transition is to ensure you are continually served with quality products and services.  We will continue to combine our operations in a very considered, careful manner to keep our efforts as seamless as possible to you. FDL Automation is a locally owned electrical distributor serving west central Ohio.  

Every year, tens of thousands of men and women across the United States are severely injured on the job, sometimes with permanent consequences to themselves and their families. On January 1, 2015, OSHA implemented a new program requiring employers to report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization, or loss of eye within 24 hours.