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Innovative-IDM president Gene Gray announces the company’s highest performing team members. Today, we learn about the All-Pro Teams and reveal the winners of the CIA Informant Award. The numbers are in for our Repairs Department Super Heroes awards. And we learn the identities of the “Employees of the Year” in Customer Service, Manufacturing, and Repairs....

We were messing around in our Dallas shop yesterday (all of our shops have a wooden pirate ship on the bench) and thought we’d share how to remove the Yaskawa A1000 terminal board. The Memory Terminal Board feature is designed to decrease Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).  This feature allows maintenance personnel to quickly change...

Manufacturing plants are investing resources in robotics. Since installing a proof-of-concept robotics lab at its Texas headquarters, Innovative-IDM has seen a surge of curious engineers and plant managers asking the question: “How can robots handle my application?” Innovative’s robotics lab currently includes multiple robots integrated with conveyors, vision, AC drives, PLCs and pneumatics. It’s a...

Our Innovative-IDM MVP’ers on Friday, November 18, 2016 assisted the Veterans Coalition of North Central Texas (VCNCT) and other volunteers from local businesses in the sorting, counting and bagging of over 550 Thanksgiving meals (over 8,000 individual items) for our military veterans who, without the support of VCNCT, may not have had a Thanksgiving meal...