Douglas Machine Inc'

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Douglas Machine Inc.

• Founded in 1964
• Two manufacturing locations in Minnesota
• 250,000 sq ft of manufacturing space
• 550 employees
• ESOP company - 100 employee owned
• Shipping 250 packaging machines per year
• 2800 servo axis annual usage
• Recipient of Miller Brewing Companys 2001
  Partners in Excellence Award

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Shorter machine development cycle.
Standardized program structure.
Increase in machine features.
Ease of machine upgrade.
Increased breadth of machine offerings.
Protection of Intellectual Property.
Benefits to Machine Builders
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Software Engineering Concept
OMAC State Model
OEM Intellectual Property
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Modular Programming Savings
An 80 reduction in machine development time.
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Comparison to Conventional Programming
An 50 reduction in machine development time.
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Cost to Machine Builders

• More time spent defining, developing a program
  structure and function blocks.
• Increased documentation needs for reusable code.
• Version control and version roll out.
• Training and changing current paradigms.

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Machine Builders Engineering Tools

• Reusable code modules.
• Use of software library.
• Machine software modules built on tested function
  blocks.
• Machine software modules that plug-in to the
  OMAC state model.