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Eclipse Webinar Training Schedule
 
      Next Eclipse Webinar, free to all users with a current Maintenance Agreement:
      February 17- Coil Tracking and Verification Downtime tracking (1-2pm Central Time)

Want to get even more out of Eclipse, AMS' industry leading integrated manufacturing software? Eclipse is a very powerful set of management tools designed with three decades of experience in mind. This training is an opportunity to focus on Eclipse basics such as settings, adding product codes, material codes, setting up machines, controller setup and tool libraries, creating part definitions and orders and "scheduling basics". 
 
Leading this training will be Jaycen Rigger, AMS Technical Support Manager. Jaycen is the manager of AMS' training and development program and has managed more than 300-machine integrations during his tenure with AMS.
 
Please email Jaycen today for registration or questions; jrigger@amscontrols.com.
 
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AMS to Participate in 2009 FMA World Class Rollforming Workshops

April 21 - 22:  AMS will be participating in the 2009 FMA World Class Rollforming workshops in Louisville, Kentucky.  AMS' presentation, by Jaycen Rigger, will detail the Four Basic Machine Applications: An Outline of Open Loop, Closed Loop, Flying and Stopping Lines

  • Understand the generic terms used to describe roll forming machine applications.
  • Get a general understanding of the four basic machine applications.
  • Compare the four basic machine types in terms of speed, accuracy, and cost.

For more information on this informative program please see brochure.

 

News From AMS Controls GmbH:
 Kaufmann-Ulm

March 20 - 21: AMS Controls presents the Pathfinder Graphics Control System for sheet metal folders at the annual showing at Kaufmann Ulm Spenglereibedarf GmbH in Ulm, Germany. More than 2,000 direct customers of Kaufmann Ulm will have the opportunity to see the latest state of the art Graphics Controller, which can be retrofitted to almost any of their folding machines, giving them many more years of additional operation.

For more information please contact thofer@amscontrols.com at AMS Controls in Europe.

 

In The News:  "Continuous Improvement for Roll Forming"

 

Tube & Pipe Journal Cover...is an article featured in the January/February 2009 issue of "The Tube & Pipe Journal."  This article, the first of a two part feature, is written by AMS Controls, Inc. President, Andy Allman.  Learn more about the concept of continuous improvement by reading this article:  "...by embracing the concept of continuous improvement, you can dramatically enhance the productivity, quality, and reliability of your existing equipment."