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Scrap is waste. For many years, precision manufacturers have been searching for proven methods and technology to reduce scrap. Advanced Green Components (AGC) is a quality manufacturer of forgings and machined rings used in the manufacture of bearings. Keith Kegley, AGC's Senior Production Analyst, realized that due to the shear volume of produc- tion in his facility, one small operator error could result in thousands of parts of scrap in just a few hours before it was ever detected.
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What is Plastic Processing? Simply, it is the processing or converting of raw plastic material into a finished or work-in-process part. Plastic material is produced by chemical plants in pellet or resin form. Most plastic processing involves converting plastic pellet by injection molding or extrusion. Blending resins to form plastic materials like PVC is also common to produce pipe and other components. Whatever the plastic conversion process, bin level indicators serve a vital role that keeps ...
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Think about it. How did marine propulsion evolve? Thousands of years ago, the most efficient way for humans to move a vessel through the water was simply to push it or pull it. Next came the oar. Although the oar provided better control, the propulsion depended solely on the strength of the operator with some help, of course, from Mother Nature. Not until the late 1800's was the first motor boat made. All of these methods of propulsion shared one common thread. Preventive maintenance fuels peak ...
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Process visibility: Scaling real-time OEE from devices to the process level
By David Harris, Vice-President of Red Lion
While most modern equipment on the factory floor offers some degree of performance and productivity monitoring, tying equipment and devices together for meaningful and immediate expressions of productivity often remains a hurdle. However, overcoming this challenge pays big dividends. In a landmark presentation of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Rohm and Haas ...
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Panel meter development has remained relatively static the last few years, often consisting of no more than your average spin-off product releases. With the overall market focusing on new products with more advanced capabilities, many companies are hesitant to invest money into products, such as panel meters, that don't fit into areas of extreme growth or necessarily promise large returns. So where does this leave panel meters? In order to make panel meters a viable option for today's ...
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Text-based robot programming for machine tending applications requires engineers to have a high level of robotics expertise. Alternative graphical-based programs require less skill but fall short in providing a clear graphical overview of the machine tending cell and robot movement logic. ABB is developing a solution to the problem with a fast and user-friendly graphical-based model for intuitive robot programming.
Machine tending cells are becoming increasingly complex. A typical work cell ...
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37 Rutgers Street Belleville, NJ 07109 Tel: 973-759-4600 Fax: 973-759-6449 E-mail: info@vac-u-max.com www.vac-u-max.com
Customer Name: Master Machine Location: Hutchinson, KS Sale Year: 2002 Job#: 4229223 Description: Travelling Vacuum System for Metal Chips and Coolant
- 7.5 HP High-Flow Positive Displacement Vacuum Pump - Z65410/01 Intercept Assembly - 40 Ft. Monorail Frame with Hose Festoon System - Hoses and Cleaning Ttools
37 Rutgers Street Belleville, NJ 07109 Tel: 973-759-4600 Fax: ...
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A guideline for those involved in the selection, specification, and purchase of mixers
Mixing is possibly the oldest and most widely used of all technical processes. It is carried out in virtually every in handling or processing powders with other ingredients and there are very few products used in everyday life that have a mixing process as part of their manufacture. Mixing can therefore be considered as one of the essen technological processes. To avoid problems of poorly or unmixed ...
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A guideline for the selection, specification, and purchase of Gardner mixing and processing equipment.
Mixing is possibly the oldest and most widely used technical process present in virtually every industry processing powders. There are very few products used in everyday life that do not have a mixing process as part of the manufacturing system. Mixing is considered one of the essential processes in manufacturing and there are many factors to consider before the purchase of a new ...
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Contamination is one of the most common causes for the failure of journal bearings. Metal bearings combat this problem with the use of grease zirks and maintenance schedules that are imposed on the end users. Grease is needed on a regular basis throughout the life of the machine to purge contaminates. This is a result of the inability of the bearing surface to ingest the particulate. Self-lubricated bearing manufactures typically design bearing liners that are soft enough to ingest ...
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Up to 50% of damage to rotating machinery is directly related to misalignment!
Well aligned machines reduce operating costs!
The biggest contribution one can make to lower the operating costs of rotating systems is to align them correctly in the first place.
When misaligned, the loading of shafts dramatically increases due to the reaction forces created within the coupling. This effect leads to:
Premature bearing, seal, shaft and coupling failures
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If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it. Overall Equipment Effectiveness, or “OEE,” is a well known concept in maintenance and is a way of measuring the effectiveness of a machine. It is the backbone of many techniques employed in asset management programs.
This white paper begins with an explanation of the difference between efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. OEE is also defined, as are ways of calculating OEE. An example of OEE is presented, as well as an alternate ...
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oncerns about dermatology in a machine shop? This sounds more like discussing ballet on the baseball field. Dermatitis is not a general complaint among grinder operators, but finding a solution to the problem was almost as tricky as finding a prima ballerina who can pitch for the majors. The safety director can't just call up the machine shop down the street and ask how they solved the problem. That
rich grinder water causing the dermatitis outbreak. To curb bacteria growth, United Foundries ...
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The concept of Lean Manufacturing has been growing in popularity in the manufacturing world for the past several years.
Driven by several factors, including a slowing U.S. economy, rising costs of input materials, an increase in rationalization of production facilities, and the influx of inexpensive products from overseas, manufacturers are embracing the principles of Lean Thinking to solidify their competitiveness and improve market share.
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After the construction and operation of circular screen separators are
discussed, the article describes modifications that have greatly
increased capacity.
Circular vibratory separators have been classifying plastic pellets for well over 25 years. During this time, production rates
have increased many-fold which has forced designers of this equipment to search for fundamental changes in the
machine configuration in order to keep up with the ever increasing production rates.
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E.I. DuPont de Nemours Crop Protection Products' Mobile plant in Axis, Ala., a leader in the agricul- tural fine chemcials market, recently recognized a reliability engineering team led by Chris Marshall, who used a vacuum dryer to reduce downtime by ten-fold. Marshall is the technical engineer for the unit of the plant where the dryer is in service. The particular process that created the opportunity for him and his team was one in which an inert solid carrier is coated with a crop protection ...
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An automotive supplier discovers that oil skim-
ming of lubricating oil from coolant water
Metaldyne Corporation’s Driveline and Transmission Group (Royal Oak, MI) operates Hatebur AMP 30, AMP 50, and AMP 70 fully automated, horizontal hot-forming machines to produce driveline and transmission components. These machines produce near-net components from bar stock to precision forgings, at the rate of 120 parts per minute. Hot-rolled bars enter at one end of the machine, which heats, feeds, ...
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Model 6V–Less Maintenance Than Belt Skimmers
Problem: A fabricated steel manufacturer was using belt skimmers at the discharge mouth of two retention ponds of waste oil and water. Debris such as sticks and rubbish also ended up in the outdoor ponds and would get caught in a screen covering the intake of the belt skimmer. If workers didn't clean the screen daily, a dam of debris would form and prevent oil from entering the belt skimmer. Also, the belts would need to be changed every two months, ...
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Chemical Industry Plant Has Cleaner Discharge and Resells Oil
Problem: A polyvinyl chloride resins plant discharges oil into its wastewater. The oil, which is used in the polymerization process, frequently exceeds state limits in the wastewater, which could mean a $53,000-per-day fine. To avoid this, the plant has been metering its discharge from a sump into the public water system in smaller amounts — a costly and inefficient answer. Additionally, the company wants to resell the separated ...
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COLORADO HERBAL EXTRACT MANUFACTURER SAVES $500/DAY AFTER INSTALLING NEW SEALS
When your blender seals cause between $500-600 worth of product per day to end up in the mop bucket, either the seals have to go or the blender does. The Maintenance Supervisor at a Colorado processor of herbal extracts says that the MECO seals they put on their ribbon blender, "saved the machine." Due to the increased demand for herbal food supplements, the company's sales jumped from $4 million to $20 million in ...
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As the main consumer of electricity in a wastewater treatment plant, the aeration system weights most heavily on the costs of operation. Climatic changes, the 2007/08 rise in the costs of energy, and the public support for green initiatives have raised the level of awareness for our use of energy, and this has spread far beyond the circles of the environmentally concerned: energy efficiency has become one of the decisive factors in the selection of process equipment. Rightly so, because the ...
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Manufacturing companies of all sizes depend on indirect materials to keep their plants running smoothly and meet production goals. By properly managing indirect material you are increasing the effectiveness of those processes. Always having those materials needed to complete the task or being able to locate them quickly are crucial to obtaining smooth processes and the goal of becoming lean. Having those items on-hand without carrying too much inventory is a lean principle we always attempt to ...
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Kek Cantilever Sifter Reduces Screen Checks from Hours to Minutes
Do you manufacture powder paints? Do you want to make your process more efficient and cost effective? Read on…..
From quality check sieving to paint recovery, centrifugal sifters are an essential piece of process equipment in the Powder Paint Industry and are suitable for several applications but can they really save you money? Here Kemutec discuss the versatility of the Cantilevered Centrifugal Sifter and how it can solve ...
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Feeding solution drives production for automotive parts manufacturer
For automotive parts manufacturer Wescast Industries, manufacturing a consistently produced casting is critical to the quality of their exhaust manifolds. Located in Ontario, Wescast designs, casts, machines, and assembles, high-quality engineered iron products for automotive original equipment manufacturers and Tier 1 customers for the car and light truck markets in North ...
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Abstract Advances in non‐contact measurement technology, processes and techniques have created momentum in the application of digital shape sampling and processing, or DSSP, for driving a competitive advantage for manufacturing in a variety of industries from automotive and aerospace to consumer products. DSSP has been defined as the convergence of 3D scanning and digital processing of coordinate points by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in an SME Bluebook authored by Peter Marks of ...
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Hoover Dam Operators Monitor Processes Using Dynamic Mapboard with Red Lion PAX Meters
Approximately a million paid visitors—and many a passerby—visit the Hoover Dam each year to take photos or tour the area to learn more about the dam's operation and appreciate its incredible engineering. Its primary purpose, however, is to provide flood control on the lower Colorado River as well as deliver water and power to residents and businesses in the region.
“The reservoir impounded by the dam, Lake ...
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Realities of mixing & dispersion operations in the coatings industry
Work in a typical lab is aimed at achieving a long list of goals. But every aspect of business in the lab is also driven by a collection of chronic shortages. Space for equipment in the lab is always tight, and virtually every lab manager will tell you that his lab is under-funded.
During the last few years, new directions in paints, inks and coatings development have added to the challenge of managing Research & ...
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http://www.all-con.com/materials/amcor_c ase_history.html
Reprinted From Powder and Bulk Engineering, April 2004
A company installs a new bulk railcar unloading system to improve its pelleted PET unloading operation. Amcor PET Packaging, a global packaging company headquartered in Manchester, Mich., operates 48 manufacturing sites in 18 countries worldwide. At its plant in Mississauga, Ontario, the company manufactures polyethylene terephthalate (PET) preforms from pelleted PET resin that ...
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As the need to remotely control processes increases, so does the need for a convenient management solution. Web-enabling remote processes simplifies management and reduces downtime, lowering maintenance and operation costs.
Remotely operated applications such as wastewater treatment, wind energy generation and pumping stations must be regularly monitored and controlled to ensure optimal performance. Wastewater facilities must consistently meet government regulations for efficiency and are ...
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As our valued customer, you should be taking advantage of the best and latest tech- nologies we have to offer. Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX* 4.5 is our most powerful iFIX application ever, with a wealth of new features and integration opportunities that can take your production operations to the next level of quality and efficiency.
If you’re a member of our GlobalCare Complete Support program, an upgrade is simply a phone call away. If not, then GE Fanuc offers many programs that can allow you to ...
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Solves EnvironmeBt I oncerns r I VI Equipment, aintenance nd a hdown cil,ilies
eckwith Machinery That's where the Oil Skimmers Company of Murraysville, Inc.'s waste oil recovery system Pennsylvania, is one of the came in. The Oil Skimmer is largest Caterpillar dealers designed to remove petroleum - in America, with 11 sales, based oils, animal and vegetable service and manufacturing fats, greases and oil wastes floating facilities in Pennsylvania and on water. It comes in two models. West ...
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Kemutec Supply Kek Cone Mills to AstraZeneca
Kemutec is delighted to have supplied Kek cone type size reduction mill systems to AstraZeneca for several of their recently built tablet production facilities in the UK, Mainland Europe and further afield.
Tablet manufacture is based around the wet granulation process performed in mixer granulators. The wet granulated material is conventionally dried in fluid bed dryers. Linking the granulator to the dryer allows direct transfer from one machine ...
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To protect your business and to ensure that your users have ready access to your Perforce servers, you must plan a strategy for high availability and for recovery from a hardware failure or natural disaster that disables your Perforce installation. To determine and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions, you must first define your business objectives, then purchase and deploy the hardware that is required to achieve those objectives. This document outlines some options for ...
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Driving a turbo-powered sports car is an exciting experience. Step on the gas pedal zero to sixty in a few seconds. Maneuvering through traffic.... downshift, accelerate past others, upshift....gone. Curves coming up?....downshift...corner..... accelerate. You notice the responsiveness of this finely engineered product. You expect this; this precision machine was designed for this, and it is performing to spec. Wouldn't it be great if you could do this with your business? That is...quickly ...
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Two GARDNER Mixers and a KEK Centrifugal Sifter supplied to Quest International's Bromborough Port, Wirral site, by Kemutec, are giving sterling performances 12 months on. Quest, an ICI Group company, is one of Europe's leading suppliers of food flavourings. They have won contracts from some of the biggest and best names in the business through the excellence of their products, the reliability of their service and their fastidious attention to hygiene. The Bromborough Port site employs around ...
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MECO Custom Shaft Seals Solve Mixer Leakage Problem
W.F. Taylor Co. Inc. (“Taylor Adhesives”) of Dalton, Georgia manufactures state-of-the- art, environmentally friendly adhesives for flooring installation. Taylor sells its products throughout the United States and also exports to the Pacific Rim area, Canada, UK and Australia.
When Taylor launched its patented Meta-Tec Wood Flooring Adhesive product in 2003, they bought a used, 411 cubic foot mixer, which had previously been used to mix dry ...
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Reusable Containers Industry (55 gallon Drums) Oil Skimmers, Inc resolve waste oil problems
Companies that provide reusable containers for shipping of materials and finished goods use a combination of processes to clean and restore the containers between uses.This makes for a wastewater stream full of many types of oils from both the residual contents of the containers and the restoring processes themselves. Of course, these oils must be removed from the water before it can be reused or ...
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Vapour containment can be one of the most troublesome challenges in operating and maintaining process machinery. Aromatic hydrocarbons are a process ingredient for a vast array of materials, and evaporative loss of these volatile chemicals can be costly in many ways.
The simplest case is that evaporative loss is a direct expense: solvent lost to the atmosphere must be replaced – often at about the same price per litre as unleaded fuel at the pump. Beyond the direct replacement cost, though, ...
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Manufacturing facilities rely on processes to keep machines running and inventory optimized. These processes in some cases are well defined, but sometimes technology shortcomings do not allow for the correct gathering of information regarding these processes. In other cases, they are well defined but its difficult to control inventory at the plant floor level. Sometimes the defining of plant floor inventory processes have fallen by the wayside because of other important issues. One thing is ...
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Agent based simulation has it's roots in theoretical mathematics since the 1940s. The concept has it's basis in the idea of large systems of interacting machine automata which can replicate, learn and reproduce. The early adoption of the technique in the simulation field has been evolutionary and has developed and matured significantly in recent years. Several influential studies in the field have occurred since the 1970s, leading to adoption into the field of general simulation as what we now ...
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HIGH RESOLUTION, ACCURACY AND REPEATABILITY
Hydraulic valves, pumps and actuators face the most stringent testing of any industrial product. Liquid flow measurement is used as a fine tuning process to monitor the machining and assembly of the hydraulic component to achieve the desired flow characteristics. Subsequently, flow measurement is used again during 100% certification of performance over the part’s full range of inputs. Each hydraulic component must pass across a test stand of some ...
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Many of today's products contain or are in the form of emulsions. It is but natural that, as a mixing company, we devote a special report on preparing stable, high-quality emulsions.
An emulsion, made up of an aqueous and an oil phase, is a common type of delivery system used for personal care products, enabling a wide variety of ingredients to be quickly and conveniently put on hair and skin. In the pharmaceutical industry, they are used to make medicines more palatable, to control dosage of ...
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Reed Food Technology in Pearl, Miss., is a processor of bulk food ingredients for the food service industry. Their products include batters, breadings, dry spice and seasoning mixes, instant marinades, sauces and gravies. These are sold to hotels, cruise ships and other large food service estab- lishments. Their original products were wet dressings and sauces, and they would outsource the dry sea- sonings they needed. The boss realized he ...
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Reprinted from American Laboratory September 2007
Comprehensive Laboratory Informatics: A Multilayer Approach
Commercial LIMS have been avail- able for more than 20 years and have become key elements in the labora- tory informatics framework. During these years there have been many changes within the LIMS industry, many of them driven by rapidly devel- oping technologies. At the same time, evolving business requirements and pressures have been crucial factors in making LIMS the sophisticated ...
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A glass panel manufacturer acquires a portable industrial vacuum to eliminate airborne dust.
Techneglas, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, manufactures glass panels for television screens at its plant in Pittston, Pa. In the past, operators would manually sweep up dust and broken glass that accumulated beneath the company’s large annealing ovens (or lehrs). However, this created airborne dust that caused panel defects. To solve this problem, the company worked with an industrial vacuum supplier ...
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Oil Skimmers Solutions Guide: Oil Services Industry Gulf Coast Company Finds a Simple, Inexpensive Way to Meet Discharge Rules
Retif Oil & Fuel Inc. is one of the top petroleum specialty products distributors in the nation, offering customers a full range of services from commercial and retail deliveries to on- and off-site refueling services. The company has served the greater New Orleans area through three facilities since 1965 and has a commitment to serve an expanded market throughout the ...
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Get Your Assembly Equipment For Free: How To Propose a Winning Capital
The heat is on!! The direction is set for us in the U.S. Global competition is driving U.S. manufacturing to fiercely compete. Gone are the days when we can sit back and “crank out” thousands or millions of products per month just to make the budget hours. Lead times have shrunk. In most industries today, customers are demanding 1-2 day deliver- ies for standard products, just-in-time replenishment, top quality, and ...
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Energy Efficiency Initiatives Greatly Reduce Variable Production Costs Global energy strategies present some of the most challenging issues facing businesses and governments worldwide. The fate of energy sustainability has many different outcomes depending upon who is telling the story. However, two tenets are core in every storyline; energy efficiency and emissions management. The good news is that both energy efficiency and emissions management go hand in hand. In most cases, energy ...
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How Food Producers can Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency in their Wastewater Treatment System
A white paper for the packaged-food industry.
Foremost in many companies’ capital-investment strategies these days is achieving fast return on investment (ROI). This especially is true in packaged foods, an industry adjusting to higher commodity prices and increased price sensitivity. At the same time, consumers are pressuring packaged-foods manufacturers to make their processes more ...
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Vacuum Conveying System Integral To 2000% Growth Strategy of Food Additives Supplier Automated material handling, including vacuum conveyor system, is the key to Piasa reaching twenty-fold growth, equaling the production capacity of all major competitors combined.
When you consider that Piasa uses over a thousand different ingredients to produce food additives such as spices, seasonings and flavors – many of which are custom recipes – the importance of dramatically improving production becomes ...
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A comparison of the these two primary types of control systems.
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Mixing of powder into liquid is very easy: You simply pour it onto the surface of the liquid and then you mix it in. It is quite clear that this creates a lot of dust – powder falls beneath the vessel but knifes and other equipment may fall into the vessel instead. It is obvious that powder sticks to the walls of the vessel and other devices inside and it is supposed to be normal, that lumps and agglomerates are built up when the powder comes in contact with the liquid. It takes a long time and ...
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Achieving Value in Packaging Line Operations
Wonderware Industry Application for Packaging
Yves Dufort, Industry Manager and Business Director, Food & Beverage, CPG
Operations Value Through Continuous Process Improvement
Continuous improvement is a journey, not an event. The following process generally describes how companies relentlessly seek continuous improvement initiatives. It revolves around the customer and its prime business drivers. At any given time and depending on several ...
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Particles that carry electrostatic charge are difficult to process in commercial vibratory screen separators. Static can cause
screen blinding and significantly reduce the efficiency of your vibratory screen separator. While there are no hard and fast
rules for overcoming static problems, this article discusses several approaches you can try.
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nMetric is a real-time, real-world manufacturing performance optimization software system for discrete, complex or “chaotic” manufacturing environments. The nMetric system breaks down customer orders into their routing components and creates an intelligent object-based Smart Job™ for each step, which identifies the attributes of the resources it needs and routes itself to its most efficient completion using a stochastic, backward-chaining process. The system framework keeps track of each ...
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Activated Carbon is a very fine highly porous pure carbon powder which is used for the adsorption and the removal of unwanted organic substances and unpleasant smells and malodour out of liquids. Main fields of application are the treatment and purification of drinking water, waste water and leachate water from landfills. On the other hand, Activated Carbon is also being used in the production
of filter materials (e.g. out of PUR-foam), to separate Caffeine and for the clarification of sugar ...
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Volumetric Feeders Provide the Accuracy a Fluidized Bed Coating Line Depends On
Anchor Fence, located in Baltimore, is a producer of industrial chain link fence. To manufacture its product, the company uses a proprietary fluidized bed coating process that permanently bonds PVC vinyl powder to galvanized steel fence wire. After the wire is coated, Anchor weaves it into the wire fabric that is used in its various fence designs.
The process, developed by Anchor in the 1960s, requires that the ...
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The company also supplies clients worldwide with instant coffee, traditional ground and roasted coffee, as well as coffee in bulk. Brands include Presto, Musun, and Café Toro. Café Soluble also processes private-label instant cof- fee for supermarkets in the UK and else- where, and it makes instant cereal drinks under the Presto brand. The company employs 400 people and has annual revenue of about US$34 million.
Café Soluble built its reputation for quality by blending, roasting, and ...
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A case history looking at how Acrison feeders saved a petfood company tonnes of non-reworkable product
For any edible product, consistent colouring is an absolute imperative – and this is as true for pet foods as it is for our own food. It was the challenge of ensuring accurate colour with minimal product wastage that led MRC, the UK's leading process engineering company in the animal feed industry, to approach dry solids handling specialists, Acrison International.
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Recent studies covering plants in the U.S., UK and Germany show that controlling static electricity build-up is the key to preventing combustible cloud explosions.
In the U.S. alone during the period 1980 to 2005 The Chemical Safety Board reported 281 explosions caused by ignitable combustible dust atmospheres. They resulted in 199 fatalities and 718 injuries (1). Similar data was compiled in the UK, where the Health and Safety Executive reported 303 explosions over a nine year period. And ...
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How To Build A Business Case For Shopfloor-Online ________________________________________ ___________________________
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How To Build A Business Case For Shopfloor-Online ________________________________________ ___________________________
How to Build a Business Case For Shopfloor-Online
Sometimes it is easy to see where a software solution would make a valuable contribution to your ...
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How Shopfloor-Online Supports Quality ________________________________________ ___________________________
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How Shopfloor-Online Supports Quality ________________________________________ ___________________________
Ask any company how important quality is and they'll all give you the same answer – very! Having said that, some companies face more of a challenge managing quality than others. Examples are: • Where the quality ...
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A privately held snack-food manufacturer in the Midwest expected to increase production of potato chips by 20%, to about 72 million pounds a year. While more potato chips would mean more profits, it also would mean more oil-laden wastewater from washing the potatoes and the fryers used to cook them.
PROBLEM: When operators clean the fryers used to make the chips, oil mixes with the wash water. This wastewater is discharged into the municipal water-treatment system. The potato-chip plant is in ...
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Acrison feeders tackle tough compounding challenge.
Acrison International has recently commissioned a new BDF weigh feeder at Jackdaw, the leading nylon compounder in the UK, bringing the total of Acrison feeders within this harsh environment to 16.
The bin discharge feeder (BDF) has two parallel conditioning augers mounted within a non converging feed chamber, and a centrally located metering auger. There are 9 standard designs of conditioning auger to promote product flow, and more than 100 ...
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Compromise may be the way of life in politics but when it comes to improving the return on investment there appears to
be a growing trend away from off-the-shelf equipment with its lower upfront costs. Manufacturing and production
engineers responsible for the efficient production of quality products are demanding equipment designed with their
specific needs in mind. They'll pay the extra dollars to avoid downtime, production bottle necks, high maintenance and
low yield. This has long been ...
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The Route To A Factory Information System ________________________________________ ___________________________
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The Route To A Factory Information System ________________________________________ ___________________________
The route to a factory information system ..and what it's worth! This paper outlines the case for Shopfloor-Online: Lighthouse's integrated factory information system working across production, job ...
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E-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:press@powerpr.com" press@powerpr.com
Avoiding Delamination and Waste in Flexible Packaging
‘Intelligent’ blending and dispensing of adhesives is critical to proper lamination, yet is often lacking
In the vast world of flexible packaging, it is critically important to control the adhesives used to bond laminates such as films and foils, which requires meticulous accuracy of blending, dispensing and applying adhesives to substrate materials. Yet, the adhesive controls ...
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Material Handling Equipment & Integrated Systems
A leading specialty food products manufacturer required a means to elevate and discharge various blends of sugars, starches, salts and flours into mixers for new packaging lines. The manufacturer investigated numerous conveying options, but found them all difficult to clean between batches. The equipment needed to be fully automated, fit within a limited space, and have product contact surfaces that were easy to clean between batches.
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Mucuon Iris Diaphragm Valve - Not Just for Controlling Powders
Over the years, the Mucon Iris Diaphragm Valve (IDV) from Kemutec has proved itself one of the most versatile flow control valves for dry bulk solids. When fitted with an electrometric diaphragm, the valve is capable of closing around lumps of product, or even foreign bodies trapped during closure, while still providing an effective seal to smaller particles and dust. It is the unique feature that has enabled the IDV to be used for ...
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Miller Welding & Iron Works, Washington, Ill., a custom job shop fabricator and finisher, likes living large. The company manufactures parts for off-road equipment, mining machinery, oil fields and offshore oil rigs, broadcast antennas, and farm equipment. “We're pretty diversified in whom we do work for,” Sam Miller, company vice president, said. The parts it manufactures and finishes weigh as much as 4,000 pounds. As if that's not heavy enough though, the shop will be coating parts that ...
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VAC-U-MAX, an industrial vacuum expert, teams up with players in a range of industries to battle flammable, explosive, respiratory, ergonomic, and noise dangers, which are not only OSHA-regulated but also more insidious than many companies realize.
US businesses spend an estimated $170 billion a year on costs associated with work injuries and illnesses - expenditures which come straight out of company profits in the form of increased absenteeism, workers' compensation claims, and retraining ...
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Industry Issue Today there are numerous consumer products on the market that take advantage of the benefits submicron emulsions or dispersions have to offer. Reduced droplet sizes can have various desirable affects on the characteristics of an emulsion. Fluidity or the optical properties of a mixture may be altered, while improving stability and reducing the need for thickening agents to avoid the sedimentation of ingredients. Another benefit to a topical emulsion such as in a cream or lotion ...
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How nMetric Meets the 10 Classic Challenges of Manufacturing
Manufacturers of practically every stripe face the same basic challenges in running a production operation:
1. Demand Visibility 2. Bottleneck Identification 3. Optimize/Level Throughput 4. Minimize Inventory 5. Operation Execution Data Collection (Traceability) 6. Operational Data Analysis 7. Supplier Management 8. Timely Investments 9. Organizational Alignment 10. Customer Satisfaction
Every technology and process initiative of ...
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Rosedale’s Proprietary Material Anchors New Filter Bag Line:
One of the more frustrating situations in the filtration industry is the inconsistency of raw materials from one supplier to another. Even in the basic bag filter supply line material variances are prevalent. Rosedale’s recent task of producing a premium line of filter bags unearthed these challenges and the decision from the top was to start from scratch.
The company’s plant engineers developed a unique felt manufacturing system ...
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This document tells you how to plan to migrate from ClearCase to Perforce and discusses strategies for importing file history. Basic familiarity with ClearCase architecture, concepts, and terminology is helpful but not necessary when reading this document. Any necessary Perforce concepts and terminology will be explained. In particular, a lightweight migration strategy known as the baseline and branch import strategy (BBI) will be explored. The BBI strategy provides an alternative to detailed ...
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Advanced Industrial Vacuum Cleaning Systems Integrated into Production and Processing Systems Are Paying Dividends by Increasing Productivity, Improving Safety and Protecting Worker Health
Today's industrial vacuum cleaning systems – capable of picking up material as heavy as bowling balls or as fine as mist - are now far more sophisti- cated than their brethren, the common shop vacuum. These powerful and sophisticated vacuum cleaning systems, often custom designed for specific applica- tions ...
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Selecting the right type of liquid/solid separating equipment is not a simple task as the range of equipment is very large. For these reasons it is useful for an engineer confronted with a separation problem to conduct the basic evaluations of the possible or probable solutions and above all establish which routes not to follow. This article will help to conduct basic testwork and then to select the most optimum separation equipment.
B asic Principles of Liquid the chances that this is going ...
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The basic design of the sanitary butterfly valve used in the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries has remained essentially unchanged for a number of years. There are a number of detail differences between the products proposed by different manufacturers,
and a series of considerations which determine the suitability of such a valve.
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Specifying steps necessary to determine the correct chiller for your application
The following steps will enable you to completely specify a recirculation chiller. Following these steps and determining this information will help you select the correct chiller needed for your application. If some information is not available, or you are unsure of any information, the manufacturer should be contacted for assistance. Tek-Temp Instruments have used these steps for many years and we will be happy ...
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Materials of Construction Thermoplastic Piping Systems for Pharmaceutical Water Applications
(originally published in Dec 2001 “Ultrapure Water Journal”)
T he use of thermoplastic plastics in pharmaceuti- cal and biotech water and process systems is gaining greater acceptance. Water systems are often more efficiently operated when thermoplastics such as Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) and Polypropy- lene (PP) are employed as compared to ones con- structed of stainless steel. It is important to ...
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Excellent Equipment Is Being Designed In Spite of the Lack of a Single General Theory HAROLD E. GALANTY Franklin Miller Inc.
Literature on size reduction is plentiful and several useful "laws" are available, but a` single generally acceptable theory has not been formulated. The frame-work is complex and promises to be more complex in the future.
We are told that size reduction equipment is grossly inefficient, theoretically, and that less than 2% of the energy supplied appears as increased ...
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The Challenge of Removing Surface (Free-Floating) Oil
Imagine tackling your greatest production challenge quickly, easily and inexpensively. Now imagine tackling your greatest production challenge quickly, easily and inexpensively – and even generating a profit while doing so. For businesses and industries that deal with oil separation and removal, the solution does not need to be expensive or inefficient. In fact, the answer may be simpler than you think. When Oil is a Problem Industries as ...
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Volumetric and loss-in-weight feeders accurately feed a custom compounder's ingredients to its extrusion lines.
O 'Neil Color & Compounding Corp., a subsidiary of Primex Plastics Corp., produces custom colorant and additive master batches and thermoplastic compounds for customers that make injection- molded, blow-molded, extruded, and other finished plastic products.In1992, the company purchased a compound- ing plant in Jasper, Tenn., that had several existing extrusion lines for making ...
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Feeders satisfy plant's hunger for expansion
Speed and quality were important factors in a project that almost doubled GE Plastics' annual production rates.
As the world's number one producer of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastics, General Electric Plastics is by no means a small manufacturing facility. The Ottawa, Ill., plant supplies the plastics needs for a wide variety of General Electric products. But its plastics don't fulfill just GE's needs. The plant also produces plastics ...
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Keeping Your Cool: Grooved Technology as a Means to More Efficient Data Center Construction and Operation
www.victaulic.com VICTAULIC IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF VICTAULIC COMPANY. © 2009 VICTAULIC COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. WP-05 Rev. A
For many years, air cooled systems provided sufficient cooling capacity for data centers; however, increased computing density produces more heat and, therefore, requires a more efficient cooling method. In larger data centers, the most cost effective ...
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Volumetric and loss-in-weight feeders accurately feed a custom compounder's ingredients to its extrusion lines.
O 'Neil Color & Compounding Corp., a subsidiary of Primex Plastics Corp., produces custom colorant and additive master batches and thermoplastic compounds for customers that make injection- molded, blow-molded, extruded, and other finished plastic products.In1992, the company purchased a compounding plant in Jasper, Tenn., that had several existing extrusion lines for making ...
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Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) Definition Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) is an outgrowth of Materials Requirements Plan- ning (MRP) initiated in the 1970's as a new computer-based approach to planning and scheduling of material requirements and inventory, featuring the time-phased order point. MRP evolved to MRP II (Materials Resources Planning) the "closed loop" process, to Business Requirements Planning (BRP) and eventually to ERP. As MRPII came into vogue in the late 1970's and ...
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Asset Visibility: Seeing the Opportunity in Asset Management
Based on the Manufacturing Insights Global Performance Index, no corporate performance measure correlates more closely to increases in market capitalization than return on assets (ROA). This tried-and-true measure evaluates executive management on making profitable use of the capital employed by the firm and rewards high performers with greater earnings multiples.
Harnessing robust global growth and industry consolidation via both ...
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Adhesives that handle high temperatures and corrosion can be attractive alternatives to traditional fasteners.
When you look out your airplane window in a few years, you may not see the familiar rows of rivets. Believe it or not, adhesive bonding has advanced to the point where it can compete with high-performance traditional fastening technologies. Adhesives can lighten structures and extend service life in aerospace, marine, electronic, and automotive applications.
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Selecting a diverter valve for your pneumatic conveying system can be difficult, especially when you consider the many diverter valves that are available. However,making the correct selection is important because a properly selected diverter valve can keep your operation running smoothly, reduce maintenance costs, and improve your conveying system's efficiency. This article outlines factors you should consider and provides descriptions of commonly used diverter valves, how they work, how ...
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If you're looking out your process control room window right now and can't see the workers or equipment behind the dust cloud, read this article. It explains how to control dust by dedusting friable materials in a continuous blender.
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The sterling performance of their original Kek sugar grinding mill led Horizon Biscuits back to Kemutec for its replacement. The new model 3H Kek Universal Mill has been in operation for 2 years now and Site Engineering Manager, Howard Baker, reports that it has given total satisfaction. In fact, the mill is the heart of a complete milling package supplied by Kemutec — incorporating a sack tip hopper, conveyors, collection hoppers, metering feeders, keg filling station and associated air ...
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SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) - 65 year technology continues to find new applications in critical and innovative applications
HYPERLINK http://www.Macrosensors.com www.Macrosensors.com
Life for the Linear Variable Differential Transformer or LVDT began during WWII in limited use by the military for laboratory measurements. In 1946, the LVDT was commercially introduced to the world as a viable linear displacement measurement technology through a scientific ...
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Many of today's products contain or are in the form of emulsions. It is but natural that, as a mixing company, we devote a special report on preparing stable, high-quality emulsions.
An emulsion, made up of an aqueous and an oil phase, is a common type of delivery system used for personal care products, enabling a wide variety of ingredients to be quickly and conveniently put on hair and skin. In the pharmaceutical industry, they are used to make medicines more palatable, to control dosage ...
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Dissolution testing is used in solid dosage form manufacturing to determine the rate of dissolution of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) into solvents that simulate the digestive tract fluids. There are several dissolution testing apparatuses described in the US Pharmacopeia. The general design has six to nine temperature-controlled 900mL vessels that contain the buffered solvent and a stirring device. A Tablet is dropped in at the time zero and the concentration of the API in the ...
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Chemical services of any kind may require special alloys for corrosion resistance, freedom from metal ion contamination, or both. Bioprocessing applications can have even more stringent requirements, due to the high degree of cleanliness required to convey sterile and non-sterile products or solutions. Tubing and/or piping systems, must, therefore meet these requirements in their fabrication, particularly when it applies to their product or solution contact surfaces. Stainless steels are ...
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Enterprise carbon accounting (ECA) is an essential requirement for companies and will likely become necessary due to government legislation. No longer is it permissible for a company to look within its borders, but it must look at its overall environmental responsibilities and accurately gauge and measure carbon production and emission caused by its very existence. Financial data must be directly linked through lifecycle assessments enabling action to be taken to help reduce greenhouse gas ...
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Continentals “Free-Fall Processing®” method of applying liquids to solids allows for uniform distribution of liquid additives as the surface area is exposed in Free-Fall. The relationship of the droplet size to the particle size is critical to create the desired finished product; whether it is De-dusting Carbon Black, Impregnating Agricultural Chemicals, or Encapsulating Enriched Rice.
Although each of these processes involves a liquid being sprayed onto a dry powder or granular, that is ...
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Emerging considerations affect fluid transfer design used in modern pharmaceutical or biotechnology processes (termed biopharm herein). These are:
Batch or continuous high performance processes
Assurance of full product/environment containment
Separation of process and mechanical equipment/environments
Cleaning validation (certified cleanability or use of disposable technologies)
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Novell® Access Manager is a comprehensive access management solution that provides secure access to Web and enterprise applications. Access Manager also provides seamless single sign-on across technical and organizational boundaries, and uses industry standards including SAML (Secure Assertions Markup Language) and Liberty Alliance protocols.
This white paper details the performance, reliability, and scalability of the product so that you can deploy the correct configuration in your ...
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What is most surprising is that while the benefits of electronic device history records (eDHR) align exactly with goals eagerly sought by manufacturing executives, few of these executives are aware of all that they can gain by the switch from a manual system. As a result, only about seven percent of the industry’s manufacturers have moved to a true eDHR and are reaping the benefits.
By switching from a manual to a paperless, electronic system for creating and maintaining device history ...
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