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Your Facility is Leaking - Get the Picture
Author : Gregory R. Stockton Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services, Inc. Plant Maintenance Resource Center Home Aerial thermal mapping of your facility or complex every few years will reveal leaks in all types of systems, like steam and condensate return lines, hot water lines, chilled water
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ARMEX Blast Media and the Accustrip System ...Just the Ticket for Locomotive Depainting
Every locomotive on this railroad is completely stripped and repainted every ten years. At the company's three painting facilities, crews spend every working hour of every day stripping and repainting a steady stream of locomotives. When the facility needed to increase productivity from six
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Aeroman Gains U.S. Customers
of the first seven of 100 Embraer 190s it has on order. For Aeroman, gaining work from two successful U.S. A320 operators was the result of a concerted effort to attract business from North America to fill underused capacity at its four-bay facility in San Salvador. At one time, work on TACA aircraft
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Phosphoric Acid Anodizing
Phosphoric acid anodizing produces a relatively thin, porous oxide that is used for bonding, painting, plating, and printing applications. This report briefly describes process parameters and facility requirements for phosphoric acid anodizing, the properties of the resultant anodic coating
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Shop Achieves All-Time Productivity High
Established by Greg and Jan Robbins in 1989, Robbins Manufacturing, Inc. has grown into a state-of-the-art fabrication company. The Wisconsin company is currently expanding its 127,000 square-foot facility by an additional 70,000 square feet, its fourth expansion project in only ten years
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Biogen's LSM Plant; On Line, On Time, On Budget
, instrumentation and automation, and architectural specialties or treatments such as paneling, windows, drywall, doors, floors, rugs, treatments, and painting. Anticipating numerous changes to LSM's design, and in keeping with its vision of LSM as a flexible facility, Biogen came to value contractor flexibility
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Optimising the Efficiency of Automated Lines in Nissan's UK Plant
it was first opened in. 1984. Today it uses both Fanuc and Nachi robots on its Primera, Almera and. Micra lines, for welding, handling, and painting operations. Such investment in. automation has been an important part of the Sunderland plant becoming most. productive car manufacturing facility
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Airbus Researchers Are Bullish On Composite Application
be achieved using advanced composites manufacturing techniques, indicates a research effort from EADS' Space Transportation division and the company's Corporate Research Facility. In terms of the A380, CFRP are being used for primary structures, such as the horizontal tail plane (HTP), vertical tail plane