Tire & Wheel Assembly ?Application Tire and wheel assembly Challenge At 6 p.m., ASCO received an urgent phone call from a global automotive manufacturer´s Midwest plant. A machine that installs tires on wheels had shut down due to a problem with an electronic input module. The module receives input from sensors that indicate the positioning of the machine´s pneumatic cylinders. It then sends a signal to the programmable logic controller (PLC) to initiate the next sequence in the wheel and tire assembly process. When the input module malfunctioned, the machine stopped and the production line halted. The assembly plant did not have a spare part in its stores or MRO inventory and turned to ASCO for help. Results ASCO customer support immediately called the stocking Numatics distribut

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