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High Performance Materials Make Their Mark In Manufacturing
Description: Throughout the industrial manufacturing world, there is an increasing trend toward the use of high performance materials. Designers are moving away from using brass and standard elastomeric seals and ...
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US Energy Monitoring Packag H
From: Festo CorporationDescription: Compressed air is one of the most expensive sources of energy on the plant floor of a modern manufacturing facility. Surprisingly, this is generally not a well-known or accepted fact among ...
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Air Services reduce operational costs of pneumatic systems
From: Festo CorporationDescription: More throughput while using less energy. This is the goal of every manufacturer, but in order to optimize usage, machine builders and manufacturers alike need accurate information on the energy they ...
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Energy Conservation in Biotech/ Pharmaceutical Production
From: Festo CorporationDescription: Pharma and biopharma manufacturers have many requirements for compressed air, but very few have a good handle on how much compressed air they're using and how easily they might save air, and money, ...
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Food Quality Through High Compressed Air Quality
From: Festo CorporationDescription: Festo application engineers and technical support personnel are continuously documenting new ways to maximize the value of our products, and we frequently publish helpful technical tips. This section ...
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Innovative air cushion solution improves productivity and machine reliability and saves money
From: Festo CorporationDescription: New air cushioning solution for pneumatic actuators automatically adjusts the amount of air cushioning depending on the impact energy (speed, load), thus increasing overall productivity and reducing ...
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Save Maintenance and Component Expenses by Eliminating Moisture in Electrical Cabinets
Description: On many food processing and wet processing applications, the presence of moisture in electrical cabinets, motor housings and related equipment can lead to a variety of costly problems including ...
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Design Engineer's Guide
From: Milwaukee CylinderDescription: Design Engineer's Guide - Cylinder Basics ...
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Ten Energy Saving Tips
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: Follow these ten steps to energy savings in compressed air systems. ...
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A Compact Solution For Automatic Capping
From: Scott Rotary SealsDescription: Solution for a customer with specialized automated packaging equipment designed for plastic lid capping on consumer products to properly accommodate the equipment and reduce maintenance. ...
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Fluid Power Safety for Machine Guarding
From: Ross ControlsDescription: Safety has changad at a raped pace during the last few years. Designers and Safely managers struggle to beep tç with recent changes as wel as with xedictthg and planning tar what is coming lithe near ...
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Comprehensive Compressed Air Audits The 5-Step Process
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: It is critical to focus on improving the specific KPI of kW/100 cfm. Compressed air users can ensure return on investments (based upon energy savings) on air system audits by working with firms who ...
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Compressed Air System Leaks: The Cost, Common Culprits, Detection and Repair
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: Like a furnace that heats a home that's well insulated, a compressed air system with a minimum amount of leaks is more energy efficient and more effective. Leak reduction is one of the most ...
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Case Study - Blasting and Surface Preparation
From: Van Air Systems, Inc.Description: At the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel, under strict environmental regulations, Van Air air-cooled after-coolers, single tower deliquescent Freedom Dryers, and particulate and coalescing filters ...
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Enerpac's ultimate lift gantries gantries curtail risk with cost-efficient technology
From: ENERPACDescription: Sometimes the enormous power and precision of synchronous hydraulic technology is the best option; sometimes standard indoor and outdoor cranes can do the job cost-efficiently; and sometimes lifting ...
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Replacing Old Refrigerated Dryers - Reducing Maintenance, Reducing Pressure Drop
From: Van Air Systems, Inc.Description: How to fix problems related to wet compressed air machine areas. ...
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"Gone with the wind"? - That must never happen to a wind turbine!
From: Deublin Co.Description: Compared to many other products such as PCs, mobile phones, or even cars and furnishings, wind turbines have an entirely different time horizon. Currently available turbines should be operable for at ...
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Complex and multi-layered - moulds for automotive engineering require precision - and rotating unions
From: Deublin Co.Description: While initial concerns were to manufacture components out of lighter "plastic" (let's just use this derogatory term for crude oil-based synthetic materials for the moment) to replace metal parts and ...
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Higher energy density in lithium-ion batteries - rotating unions play a major role
From: Deublin Co.Description: When it comes to ultramodern calenders for producing lithium-ion batteries, the choice of machine manufacturer is an important one. The quality of every single component goes towards maximizing the ...
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The Olympic engineering principle for machine tools: faster, finer and deeper, with internal cooling and fitting rotating unions
From: Deublin Co.Description: While the "faster" in our headline needs no explanation, since we already know that machine tool speeds have continually increased in the last decades simply to manufacture more products per unit ...
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Case Study: power plant solves a feeding problem by installing ceramic-lined rotary feeders
From: FLSmidthDescription: The limestone abraded and damaged the internal components of the old rotary airlocks and fugitive dust escaped into the plant. After comparing feeders by two different suppliers, we purchased ...
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Basics of Rotary Screw Compressor Lubricants
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: Lubricant is a critical component in rotary screw compressors. Understanding the characteristics of lubricant types helps ensure their proper application and increases customer satisfaction by ...
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Combination Refrigerated/Desiccant Compressed Air Dryers
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: A combination refrigerated/desiccant compressed air dryer is a system that first incorporates a refrigerated dryer to condense and remove the majority of water vapor being carried by an untreated ...
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Effective Portable Compressor Maintenance
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: T he 400,000 gpd wastewater lagoon in Parsons, W.Va., had dissolved oxygen, BOD5, TSS, ammonia, and significant algae problems, resulting in more than 40 state Department of Environmental Protection ...
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Is variable speed drive the panacea we're looking for?
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: Five types of internal control modes can be considered as suitable for compressors: Dual, Quadro, Vario, and Proportional Control, using inlet valve regulation, and Variable Speed Control of the drive ...
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Piesau Glassworks Opts for Efficient Air Technology. Traditional glassworks successful on the open market
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: The manufacture and processing of glass has a long tradition in the Thuringian Forest and a glass works has existed in Piesau since 1622. The combination of long tradition and substantial knowledge, ...
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Zurich to Thalwil, An Example of Modern Tunneling Technique
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: Swiss Railways have started laying a parallel double-track line between Zurich and Thalwil to relieve the heavy traffic load on the lakeside section of this route. The new line, due to be opened for ...
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Hose Friction Loss
Description: This document contains a table to help calculate pressure drop caused by friction in high pressure lines. ...
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Management Responsibility: Ignorance of the law is no defence !
From: Protect-AirDescription: Increased awareness of the need to ensure the health and safety of the users of pneumatic equipment has led to unprecedented levels of industry regulation. For example, the Corporate Manslaughter Act ...
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Tough Challenges on Managers! Management Responsibility in a new Dimension
From: Protect-AirDescription: Increased awareness of the need to ensure the health and safety of the users of pneumatic equipment has led to unprecedented levels of industry regulation. For example, the Corporate Manslaughter Act ...
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Rotary Systems Cleans Up
From: Rotary Systems, Inc.Description: When a large, international semiconductor company was developing a process to clean their silicon wafers they contacted Rotary Systems for help. Needing to pass a proprietary cleaning solution and ...
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Safety Pays
From: Rotary Systems, Inc.Description: A major oilfield services company and its customers were losing time and money due to unexpected safety shut downs. These shut downs resulted from repeated failures of the rotary unions the company ...
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Compressed Air Versus Blowers -The Real Truth
Description: Blow-off of water, dust, coolant, etc. is achieved using either, or both compressed air and blower operated systems. ...
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Labs
From: Stäubli CorporationDescription: Continuous inspection by collecting information at various production stages. Production will be adjusted accordingly. Measurements made are the following: flows, temperatures, pressures, pressures ...
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Military
From: Stäubli CorporationDescription: Current couplings in use leak and a danger of cross connection is existing. Panel mount also required by the customer. ...
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Nuclear
From: Stäubli CorporationDescription: STC has worked with MANUFACTURER FS on this project for almost 4 years beginning in 2005. The scope of this particular project is the remote electrical connection for electrical pump motors in the ...
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Racing
From: Stäubli CorporationDescription: Compressed air connection system, for connecting to the air jack cylinder. This then raises the car when in race mode and maintenance mode. Existing solution for the connector from James Lister needs ...
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Thermal Management
From: Stäubli CorporationDescription: Connect main Vehicle A/C system to auxiliary A/C unit aboard military vehicle for onboard electronic cooling. ...
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Not Just a Lot of Hot Air! (.pdf)
From: BOGE America, Inc.Description: Gavin Monn, President of BOGE America, Inc. discusses how compressed air users can optimize their compressed air related energy usage through heat recovery. ...
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Case Study: Pneumatic Braking Systems in Transportation (.pdf)
From: Ross ControlsDescription: A major train sorting yard in the Midwest was experiencing critical downtime due to complex repair of existing train braking system. The Problem Repair on the old valve system meant the maintenance ...
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Pnuematic Valves in Vacuum Packaging - Application Notes (.pdf)
From: Ross ControlsDescription: In this application, most OEMs will actuate a single 3-way to pull a vacuum on the product and then de-actuate to vent the vacuum. Although this may be a practical method for systems using valves ...
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Invest in Your Compressed Air System to Save Money (.pdf)
From: BOGE America, Inc.Description: Gavin Monn, President of BOGE America identifies the key areas within a compressed air system where investment can, in most cases, pay for itself through sustainable reductions in energy costs. ...
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Clean Air is money in the Bank
Description: Clean, dry air is critical to the success and efficiency of pneumatic systems, but contamination and condensation are unavoidable when generating compressed air. One source of contaminants is the air ...
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How to Deal With Pre-Charge Loss in Bladder Accumulators Due to Gas Permeation (.pdf)
Description: The Issue: The trade-off to using low temperature bladder compounds in mobile hydraulic applications is higher gas permeation rates through the bladder at working temperature. ...
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Advanced Rod Lock Cylinder Technology Enhances Plan tSafety Quotient (.pdf)
Description: Industrial accidents occur all too often in a variety of workplace environments. Machine operators and construction workers regularly face potential accidents from moving machine parts, hazardous ...
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Are You Taking Full Advantage of Pneumatic Valve Technology? (.pdf)
Description: Pneumatic valves have come a long way since the development of the compressor over a century ago. Starting with large manual and mechanical valves, they migrated to individually wired electric ...
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Case Study Belgium: Netting Success for Seafood Processing Machinery (.pdf)
Description: A leading manufacturer of seafood processing machinery was searching for a fast switching compact valve with a long service life. A key requirement was that the valve islands should be modular, ...
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Safety Guide for Selecting and Using Quick Action Couplings and Related Accessories (.pdf)
Description: This safety guide provides instructions for selecting and using (including installing connecting, disconnecting, and maintaining) quick action couplings and related accessories (including caps, plugs, ...
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Technical Center: Practical Air Guide
Description: Pressure is the balance of power on a defined surface area. Pascal (Pa) represents the pressure unit of the International System of Units (SI), but in industrial practice, pressure is represented in ...
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Parker Vane and Gold Cup Pumps "Walk" 25 Million Pound Land Oil Rigs into Position (.pdf)
Description: Columbia Industries LLC (Hillsboro, Oregon) was instrumental in pioneering the oil drilling rig transport industry in 1974 by putting heavy land rig modules on large axle systems. In 1982, the company ...
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Success Story: Parker Improves Customer Productivity with Cross-Division Solution (.pdf)
Description: CHALLENGE: Wallmasters was experiencing pump shaft failure after only three months of service, due to excessive wear on the splines that drive the pump. Tiffin Loader contacted Parker mobile territory ...
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Tube Expansion Issues and Methods (.pdf)
Description: Tight, durable seating of tubes in tubesheets is one of the critical functions in manufacturing heat exchangers for high pressure steam generators, boilers for conventional power generation, food and ...
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Efficient Compressed Air Production (.pdf)
From: BOGE America, Inc.Description: Compressed air is often referred to as the fourth utility. We all know the generation of compressed air consumes energy but at the same time the compressor and downstream components are often ...
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Hybrid Refrigerated/Desiccant Compressed Air Dryers
From: Kaeser Compressors, Inc.Description: Desiccant dryers are commonly used to bring the pressure dewpoint well below freezing (commonly -40°F) in order to prevent moisture from precipitating in the compressed air system and production ...
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Isys Micro Saves Dairy Cabinet Space (.pdf)
Description: Customer needed to mount pneumatic solenoid valves into a small cabinet used to control dairy process valves... ...
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Nitrogen Generation for HRSG Layup Application- "Salt Valley" (.pdf)
From: Proton OnsiteDescription: The cycling nature of this facility posed an array of problems related to corrosion, operating and layup chemistry, and layup procedures. Oxygen pitting and general corrosion that occurred in plant ...
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Safety Requirements in Electrohydraulics Systems (.pdf)
Description: Machines & systems manufacturers are subject to the strict European Safety Regulations requiring analysis of all risks refers to the application to evaluate its compliance with current prescriptions. ...
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Hydraulic Clamping Fundamentals (.pdf)
From: Vektek, Inc.Description: Hydraulic actuators provide a consistent, repeatable force in a relatively small weight and size envelope. This means that in today's manufacturing environment, the work piece can be secured, in less ...
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System Planning
From: Vektek, Inc.Description: Successful powered workholding does not just happen. Like any other manufacturing process, it must be carefully planned. But that does not mean that you need to be a hydraulics engineer to implement a ...
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Photovoltaic Process Specification Helps Cut Solar Cell Production Costs
From: Swagelok CompanyDescription: The promise of solar power becoming a leading source of renewable energy is hampered by the high cost of solar cell production. To prosper, this market must become competitive with the cost of more ...
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Case Study: Membrane Filter Boosts CMM Productivity and Accuracy
Description: Oil in the air supply to a CMM was causing inaccurate measurements and resulting in scrapped parts. A check valve that passed CMM inspection, for example, later failed functional testing and had to be ...
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Reference: Automated Fluid Flow Calculator
From: Gates CorporationDescription: Calculate basic fluid flow problems involving hose. The equations used for this program are based on assumptions and average conditions. This should be used only as a guide. ...
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Capacity & Consumption
Description: When it comes to selecting an electronic to pneumatic (E/P) transducer, the type of input and the pressure range of the output are the most common selection criteria considered. There are a couple of ...
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Understanding Current Sinking, Current Sourcing, and Ground Loops
Description: You've just purchased some current to pneumatic transducers and are ready to try them. Each transducer has been carefully installed according to the manufacturer's recommendations and wired to its own ...
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Case Study: Membrane Dryer Applications (.pdf)
Description: In most manufacturing environments, the use of compressed air is an integral part of the production process. Compressed air is used for a variety of applications including air tools, production ...
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Achieving Smoother Operation in Dynamic Accumulator Charging Circuits (.pdf)
From: HydraForce, Inc.Description: This Application Note will help you understand how to better acheive Achieving Smoother Operation in Dynamic Accumulator Charging Circuits by using our Unloading Pilot Valve UP10-40 in conjunction ...
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Temperature and Oil Viscosity Considerations in Catridge Valve Circuits (.pdf)
From: HydraForce, Inc.Description: This technical reference briefly discusses temperature and how it effects a Cartridge Valves performance. ...
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Hydraulic System Inital Start-Up and Maintenance (.pdf)
Description: Trouble-free operation of any machine or installation depends upon the manufacturer's Operating and Servicing Instructions being complied with. Hydraulic installations can be of the most varied design ...
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As Oil Prices Rise, are Profits Leaking from your Hydraulic System?
Description: Here's a challenge for plant managers: Have your purchasing department total how much you've spent on hydraulic fluid in the last six months to a year. No matter what the total, odds are good it's ...
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Keep Your Compressed Air High and Dry
Description: Most maintenance and production engineers would say that oil is the major contaminant in their compressed air system. Wrong. Nearly all of the total liquid contamination found in a compressed air ...
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Troubleshooting Fluid Power Systems: A Blend of Art and Science
Description: One of the worst sounds in an industrial setting is a fluid power system with serious problems. Even worse is the eerie silence when everything shuts down due to a failure. When a fluid power system ...
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Frequency Control Air Compressor Solution (.pdf)
Description: Air compressor group is essential equipment required by many enterprises. Control the on-off action of air compressor (such as regular maintenance, emergency stop) according to the air conditions of ...
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Why Use a Premium Quality Pneumatic Operator?
From: Branham, W.C. Inc.Description: All Overhead Door Operators are not created equal but they all have their place and a wide variety. As a manufacturer of pneumatic door operators we aim at markets that use our types of pneumatic ...
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Hydraulics & Pneumatics - Add Functionality to Hydostatic
Description: Hydraulic system designers are continually looking for ways to obtain broader ranges of speed and torque from a hydrostatic drive with a given pump, motors, and prime mover. The existing successful ...
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Choosing the Right Cylinder
From: Zo-Air Co., Inc.Description: Considerations for Choosing the Right Cylinder: What push or pull tonnage is required per cylinder in your application? (Rule of thumb; Always choose a cylinder with a tonnage rating of 20% or more ...
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Typical Hydraulic Circuits
From: Zo-Air Co., Inc.Description: 1 Single-acting cylinder or cylinders in the circuit, controlled by a pump mounted valve. 2 Double-acting cylinder or cylinders in the circuit, controlled by a pump mounted valve. 3 Single-acting ...
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Eliminating Wasted Production Effort, Vacuum Conveying System
From: VAC-U-MAXDescription: Material transfer is an integral part of any operation. When increased production demands and new product lines challenge a processing line, those charged with optimizing production must evaluate an ...
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Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes
From: Cheap Tubes, Inc.Description: The solution is composed of MWNTs, PVP(or other surfactants like SDS, SDBS, Triton X100), and water, in the proportions of 10 parts CNTs: ~1-2 parts PVP: 2,000 parts water or other solvents. The ...
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Air Dryer Adds Hundreds of Dollars of Production/Week on High-Precision Slitting Machines
Description: At Metlon Corp., a new air dryer paid for itself after only a few months by completely solving a rust problem and giving the company hundred dollars worth of additional production time each week on ...
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Dryer Eliminates Rework in Finish Operations
Description: Installation of a compressed air dryer has helped eliminate rejects and rework caused by water contamination in compressed air lines used to drive electrostatic coating sprayers at the GBC Office ...
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Low Maintenance Nitrogen Generator Helps Winery Protect Flavor
Description: The use of a nitrogen generator that requires virtually no maintenance is helping Arkansas' largest winery protect the flavor of its diverse product line. The winery purges the air from every bottle ...
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Compressed Air History
From: eCompressedairDescription: Compressed air has evolved from its natural origins into a highly technical source of energy. Understanding where compressed air comes from can shed light on its current uses and possibly open doors ...
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Inflatable Bladder Solves Clamp Assembly Challenge
Description: Add unbalanced mass to the surface of any rotating machine element and you present a challenge to the element's bearing system. That was the situation facing Agfa Corp. designers working on external ...
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Car Shredder Retrofit
Description: A scrap processing company's whole car shredder was experiencing continuous overload, causing downtime and damage to the 1000 Hp drive motor. They had been quoted a solution costing over $125,000 and ...
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Caster Segment Clamping Cylinder Upgrade
Description: An electric arc furnace steel processor was experiencing hydraulic cylinder failure on the segment clamp circuit. New cylinders were failing in 3-8 weeks. ...
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Designed Marine Hydrostatic Prop Drive
Description: Existing mechanical prop drive systems have limitations which include: Mechanical drive systems are inherently inefficient, Engine placement is fixed, High knots require high engine RPM, Low speed ...
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Dummy Bar Disconnect Cylinder Upgrade
Description: A steel processor was experiencing hydraulic cylinder failure on the caster dummy bar disconnect cylinder. Failures were so common and repair times so lengthy that three spares were required for one ...
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Emergency Troubleshooting and Retrofit of Obsolete 60" Roll Lathe
Description: A Midwestern steel industry manufacturer's roll lathe stopped working. The lathe was critical to the operation of the hot mill and further downtime was not acceptable. The situation was further ...
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Improved Cylinder Duty Cycle
Description: A coke plant was spending in excess of $500,000 / year in hydraulic cylinder repair and had been previously trying to reduce repair cost by pursuing vendors with a low cost repair philosophy. The ...
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Improved System Performance and Dependability
Description: A critical piece of production equipment (so critical that on board inline spares were included) had undergone a remanufacture and redesign. System malfunction and dependability problems had gone ...
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Main Caster Hydraulic System Retrofit
Description: An electric arc furnace steel processor wanted to Reduce the time of the charging / tapping cycle, Provide for emergency power during an outage, Increase the system pressure capabilities, Improve ...
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Retrofit Locomotive Engine
Description: A Midwestern manufacturer was using a locomotive to transfer a highly conductive material in an environment where ambient temperatures commonly reached 130+ F. The average duty cycle of the generator ...
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Scrap Shear Retrofit
Description: A scrap processing company's scrap shear was experiencing much down time and components were continually failing. The shear manufacturer was no longer in business and no prints were available. ...
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Security Gate System Retrofit
Description: A newly installed (by manufacturer) hydraulic security gate system (7 gate locations) was experiencing repeated failures (2-3 day duty cycle), creating terrible traffic backups. The manufacturer's and ...
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Precise Pneumatics Aid Automated Assembly
From: Mikron AutomationDescription: How do you make millions of tiny cell phone speakers, microphones and recievers? Very carefully, and very quickly. So, either you'll needed a multitude of hands, or a few really good machines. ...
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Cylinder Speed Chart
From: ENERPACDescription: This chart will help you calculate the time required for an Enerpac cylinder to lift a load when powered by a 10,000 psi Enerpac hydraulic pump. ...
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Hydraulic System Lifts Intermediate Temporary Piers
From: ENERPACDescription: When the Millau Viaduct was being designed, Eiffel, a subsidiary of the Eiffage Group and dedicated to steel construction, estimated that seven intermediate temporary piers were required between the ...
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School of Workholding
From: ENERPACDescription: Enerpac University is a program designed to educate manufacturers on the benefits of hydraulic workholding and to provide valuable application assistance and training. The overall program, developed ...
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Swing Clamp Selection Tool
From: ENERPACDescription: This chart will help you calculate the time required for an Enerpac cylinder to lift a load when powered by a 10,000 psi Enerpac hydraulic pump. The Cylinder Speed Chart can also be used to determine ...
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Pneumatic module lets bus kneel
Description: Buses and RVs often feature a kneeling option that lowers the vehicle and eases the task of climbing on and off. But this typically forces the manufacturer to assemble an array of pneumatic valves, ...
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