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How a Coil is Made, Part 1: Design
Description: This is the first segment in a three-part series that will explain exactly how Marlo heating and cooling coils go from just a concept to a functioning, vital component of a commercial or industrial ...
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4 Ways to Eliminate Tails from your Depositing Process
From: TNA Solutions Pty. Ltd.Description: In candy production, tails cause product loss and unscheduled downtime, which we estimate at 88 to 123 hours a month on average dependent on production run time. In this blog we analyse the main ...
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Keeping up with Confectionery Demand: Four Ways to Boost the Flexibility of your Processing Line
From: TNA Solutions Pty. Ltd.Description: The global confectionery industry is seeing stable growth in volumes and values after recovery in 2021. Beyond 2022, the market is forecast to grow by 6% year-on-year to 2026 in value terms. The ...
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Securing a Safer Food Future: 3 Ways Food Manufacturers can Contribute to Food Safety
From: TNA Solutions Pty. Ltd.Description: Ensuring food safety in today’s ever-changing climate is an enduring challenge for food producers the world over. Increasingly long and complex supply chains, a growing world population and the ...
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Armchair Project - from Plastic to Aluminum
Description: Raise3D's Versatility in Art Application ...
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Case Study: Functional Prototyping of the Cooling Duct of a Motorcycle Braking System
Description: 3D printing is a perfect option for bringing these parts to fruition, as 3D printers can easily produce the complex, curved geometry needed, quickly and if necessary, repeatedly. ...
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David Zwirner Gallery HK Installed Multiple 3D Printers to Facilitate Art Exhibition
Description: The gallery picked the Raise 3D Pro3 Plus as the solution to print the art pieces for this project ...
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Kanagawa Rehabilitation Center: 3D Printing Medical Aids
Description: Kanagawa Rehabilitation Center uses the Pro2 dual extruder 3D printers from Raise3D to be capable of independently producing rehabilitation tools, serving as a pioneer in the use of professional 3D ...
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PLC in Staple Machine Control
Description: In the staple machine control project, PLC (programmable logic controller) can play the following main purposes: (1) PLC can be used to control various movements of the staple machine, such as paper ...
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PLC Natural Gas Dosing Equipment
Description: Safety: Natural gas dosing equipment involves gas transportation and processing, and safety is the primary consideration. Ensure that the PLC system has the necessary safety protection functions, such ...
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Raise3D Hyper FFF™ Printers Revolutionize Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development for Arctic Global Warming Research
Description: As AUV research development can cost millions, the team turned to Raise3D printing technology as a cost-effective solution so as to make research more accessible. ...
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Raise3D Products Grant Accessibility to Children with Special Needs
Description: 3D-printed Parts Empower Children in Need of Personalized Aids ...
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Raise3D's Pro2 Series Printers Assist the Tailor-made Breast Prostheses
Description: By leveraging 3D scanning and printing advancements, NEWTEAM MEDICAL has revolutionized the prosthetics manufacturing process, making it more efficient, cost-effective, and time-saving. They utilize ...
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Scorpion Security Enhances Assembly Efficiency with 3D Printed Jigs and Fixtures with Raise3D Hyper FFF™ Solution
Description: Raise3D Printers allow Scorpion Security Products to Streamline Prototyping Process ...
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Unlock the Next Level of Surface Shaping with Smart Piezo Actuator and Drive Technologies
Description: Engineers Jonas Reiser and Mathias Winter give insights into the development process of PI's surface shaping solutions for the future. ...
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What are Laser Welding Fumes?
Description: Using the right filter for laser welding fumes. ...
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Optimizing Temperature Control Challenges in the Food and Beverage Industry
From: Thermon, IncDescription: While many processing industries have temperature requirements, food and beverage manufacturers often deal with tight temperature ranges to ensure that the safety of the products is not compromised. ...
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PLC in Solar Energy System
Description: PLC can be used to monitor and manage the power output and load demand of the solar system. By connecting sensors and measuring devices, PLC can monitor the power generation of solar panels, battery ...
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Motion Accuracy of Stepping Servo
Description: The motion accuracy of stepping servo motors is related to the following factors: (1) Step angle: The step angle of the stepper motor determines the amount of rotation for each step. Usually, the step ...
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Applications of Voltage Output IO
Description: Voltage output IO can be used to control actuators, such as relays, solenoid valves, motor drivers, etc. ...
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A Reliable Heating Source for Better Patient Outcomes
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: With a rapidly growing global medical device market, the demand for custom heaters—often in miniaturized form—is increasing as well. Within the $495 billion medical device market[i], ...
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Blood & Fluid Warming Heaters in Medical Device Equipment
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Heaters are an essential component for a wide variety of medical device applications. Surface, intravenous, and patient warming systems and devices provide critical temperature control of blood and ...
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Automatic Screwdrivng System ROI for Light-Weight Aluminum Automotive Body & White Construction
Description: Global supply chain issues and the Great Resignation of 2022 has had a significant impact on the automotive industry - especially when it comes to lightweight automotive body construction. The ...
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Eliminate Rework with the Right Automated Screwdriving Solution
Description: Product manufacturers face many challenges every day. Equipment failure, product damage, scrap, and unplanned downtime all adversely impact production and inevitably, your bottom line. ...
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How Automation Within Screwdriving Applications can Make or Break your Target Cycle Time
Description: When comparing manual processes to automated screwdriving applications, cycle time targets are easier to hit when using robotics ...
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Meeting Production Rate Demands for Challenging Electronic Fastening Applications with Automated Screwdriving
Description: INCREASING CYCLE TIMES FOR CHALLENGING ELECTRONIC FASTENING APPLICATIONS ...
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Alumina Ceramic Pellet Stove Igniter 120V 230V
Description: A pellet stove igniter is a very important component in pellet stoves, which are widely used for heating pellet burners, pellet stove, pellet boiler, gas heating systems and so on. Generally, pellet ...
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The Crucial Role of Fume Extraction in Industry - a look at 3D Printing as an example
Description: Fume extraction systems play a pivotal role in ensuring a safe and healthy working environment in 3D printing and other industrial processes. ...
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Understanding the Importance of Ventilation While Soldering Indoors
Description: Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a novice just entering the captivating world of soldering, safety should always be your prime concern. Today, we're honing in on a crucial safety aspect often ...
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FZI relies on ifm's O3R for ESA Space Challenge
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Autonomous robots for the Moon ...
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Industrial Robots Streamline Automotive Formed Dunnage Fulfillment Process
From: SICKDescription: Dunnage, most commonly used in packaging, is used across the manufacturing sector. In automotive formed dunnage applications, industrial robots increase speed and accuracy for numerous tasks like ...
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Robot Screwdriver and Clip Inserter Machine Provides Next-Level Quality Control
Description: Along with a mid-model design change, this automotive interior trim maker saw their production target triple. Already struggling with some quality concerns, they met with Visumatic to review the ...
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What is an Electric Heat Trace System?
From: Thermon, IncDescription: Electric heat trace, or surface heating, is the application of heat to an external surface that compensates for heat lost due to changes in temperature in ambient surroundings. In cold or freezing ...
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Reagent Lyophilized Bead Forming/Dispensing System Upgrade Version
Description: With the rapid development and wide spread of reagent lyophilized beads, IVD companies have higher requirements for the efficiency, production consistency, and safety of Lyophilized bead ...
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Choosing Coil Materials
Description: Many factors go into determining to best possible materials for each component of a coil, depending, of course, on the application. Most commercial heating and cooling coils are constructed with ...
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Case Study: Ensuring Clean Power Generation for Sweden
From: Technetics GroupDescription: Connected to the Sweden power grid in 1980, Oskarshamn 3 (OKG3) is a boiling water reactor (BWR) located 30 kilometers north of the city of Oskarshamn. Annually providing approximately 10% of the ...
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Case Study: New Electronic Bore Gauge Automates Bore Data Acquisition on the Shop Floor for Aerospace Components Manufacturer
From: Sunnen Products CompanyDescription: Aerospace pioneer Kamatics Corporation has engineered solutions for aerospace applications since 1966. Today, the company continues innovating with a new digital bore gage developed in collaboration ...
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HDPE Vents Boost Renewable Energy Capture in Ohio Landfill
Description: In November 2022, fusion technicians were working to complete the latest vent release pipes at a landfill near Lowellville, Ohio, about 80 miles (130 km) from Cleveland. Using a DynaMc® 28 Hand ...
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Lean Production - Requirements for using Karakuri/LCA
From: item America, LLCDescription: Constantly shrinking batch sizes and ever shorter product lifecycles mean greater attention is now being paid to the time and money that can be saved using the alternative automation method of ...
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SHD Skiving Roller Burnishing Machine at Prince Manufacturing
From: Sunnen Products CompanyDescription: Prince Mfg. Corp., North Sioux City, S.D., makes a variety of components essential to hydraulic systems: pumps, valves, and cylinders-especially cylinders. Prince's welded hydraulic cylinders are ...
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What are the Basic Types of Centrifugal Fans and their Advantages?
From: IB InternationalDescription: There are six basic types of centrifugal fans. Each of these fan types has advantages and disadvantages. Care needs to be taken when selecting the fan design for their ability to perform reliably in ...
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How do you Read a Fan Curve?
From: IB InternationalDescription: The performance of a fan can best be presented graphically. The accepted chart uses volumes as X axis and pressures, horsepower inputs, and efficiencies as the Y axis. The forms of the pressure and ...
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Selecting the Right Fan and the Importance of Fan Laws
From: IB InternationalDescription: The Fan Laws are one key, foundational element. Fan Laws demonstrate the relationship between the speed of rotation, the size of the fan, and the air density in the system. They calculate how changes ...
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Are Stepper Servos and Motors the Same
Description: Stepper servos and stepper motors are both the same device, but they work and are controlled differently. A stepper motor is a common motor. Its working principle is to make the motor rotor rotate ...
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Introduction of Contract Manufacturer Assembly Machine-Robotic Screwdriving Machine
Description: Automatic tighten screw equipment is also known as automatic screw locking machine, automatic screw feeding machine, automatic screw locking machine, automatic screw locking machine, industrial ...
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Introduction to Thermal Management: Keeping Devices Cool
From: BoydDescription: Product designers and manufacturers need to maintain optimized heat source temperatures to ensure these devices operate efficiently and remain reliable over time. One way to optimize device ...
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Meanings of the PLC Indicators
Description: (1) RUN indicator light: Indicates that the PLC is running. If the RUN indicator is off, it means that the PLC has not started normally or has a fault. (2) ERR indicator light: Indicates that an error ...
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Thermal Management in Artificial Intelligence
From: BoydDescription: As technology continues to evolve, more companies leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve existing offerings and generate new solutions to accelerate value creation for their customers ...
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The Benefit of Precise and Accurate Temperature Control with Direct Steam Injection Heaters
From: Pick Heaters Inc.Description: Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heaters are systems that inject steam directly into a liquid or slurry to heat it up to a desired temperature. They are widely used in various industries, such as food ...
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Hexapod 6-Axis Robots in Laser Microsurgery Research
Description: Hexapod 6-axis parallel kinematics positioners are more compact and flexible compared to traditional stacks of single axis stages. Their ability to change the pivot point with a single software ...
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Hexapod Robot Applications in Automotive Assembly
Description: A Hexapod Robot is a 6-axis, parallel-kinematics machine often used for automated precision positioning and alignment of parts and components ranging from miniature optics to large panels. As the ...
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6 Ways GTF Helps the Planet
From: GTF TechnologiesDescription: Over 1/3 of all food, and about ½ of all fruits and vegetables, produced are thrown out. Food waste is the single largest contributor to landfills. Breaking it down further, nearly 90% of ...
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What is a Digital Quantity?
Description: Engineers who often use PLC are familiar with digital and analog IO, so what is digital? According to Wikipedia, digital quantities are a kind of physical quantities, and their changes are ...
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Answer to Unplanned Downtime: A heating expert in your back pocket
From: ChromaloxDescription: Downtime is to be expected in the normal course of factory operations as part of a successful strategy for maintenance and repair. But among the most costly and disruptive challenges faced by industry ...
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Improving Safety and Navigation of Laser-Guided Vehicles in Production Logistics
From: SICKDescription: The heart of the manufacturing district in northeastern Italy is home to a model company, OCME. It is among the largest packaging manufacturers globally and it uses laser-guided vehicles (LGVs) ...
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Make your Safety Standards Sparkle with KIRA B 50, Autonomous Cleaning Robot
From: SICKDescription: The market for autonomous cleaning robots is growing rapidly. Experts estimate that by 2025, there will be five times as many robots in use as there are today. No wonder, given the market for skilled ...
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Flow Meter Comparison
From: Macnaught USA, Inc.Description: In the world of industrial instrumentation, there are many technologies available for measuring flow of mission-critical process fluids. Deciding which one to select can be difficult. It is an ...
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Simulation for Tube Bending, Tube Lasering
From: Sharpe ProductsDescription: One part of estimating the costs involved for a custom tube bending or tube lasering project involves simulating the machining process to determine cost, timing and resources needed to correctly meet ...
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3 Tips to Reducing Automated Screwdriving Cycle Times
Description: Screwdriving automation plays a critical role across all industries, from automotive to consumer goods, medical equipment, and safety gear. To meet the demands of strict cycle times, facilities must ...
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Controlling Screwdriving Systems Risk Factors to Ensure Minimal Downtime
Description: SIGNIFICANT RISK FACTORS CAUSING DOWNTIME OF YOUR SCREWDRIVING SYSTEMS ...
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How to Guarantee Automated Screwdriving Process Reliability in a Medical Device Assembly
Description: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS FOR RELIABLE AUTOMATED SCREWDRIVING ...
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What Factors to Consider when Evaluating Automated Screwdriving Solutions
Description: ERGONOMIC STRESS ON OPERATORS ...
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What are the Main Components of a Stepper Motor?
Description: From a macro perspective, a complete stepper motor includes the motor body, motor driver and connecting cables. ...
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Hydrogen Compression with Screw Compressors
From: Aerzen USA Corp.Description: If hydrogen is produced by atmospheric electrolysis, it must be compressed to a certain pressure for the subsequent processes. Screw compressors in the low-pressure range have economic advantages, ...
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Why AERZEN Relies on Air Foil Bearings instead of Magnetic Bearings for its Turbos
From: Aerzen USA Corp.Description: For the sophisticated bearings inside turbo blowers, AERZEN uses neither oil nor other lubricants, but air. Steffen Helmert, Product Manager Turbo Blowers, explains the reasons for this and why AERZEN ...
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Samba in the Aeration Tank
From: Aerzen USA Corp.Description: Bangu wastewater treatment plant (Brazil): maximum efficiency thanks to Nereda® process and AERZEN Delta Hybrid ...
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100% Availability, 0% Problems
From: Aerzen USA Corp.Description: Availability and reliability have top priority at A+S BioTec GmbH. For this reason, the Saarland-based family business has exclusively used blowers and compressors from AERZEN for the pneumatic ...
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Extending Nuclear Plant Life Requires Aging and Obsolete Systems to Operate as New
From: Ultra EnergyDescription: Maintaining power supply while maximizing returns from past investments ...
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How does Ultra Energy Help Nuclear Developers Achieve their Commercial Goals?
From: Ultra EnergyDescription: Nuclear must develop to compete effectively ...
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How to Choose the Right Direct Steam Injection Heater for Your Needs
From: Pick Heaters Inc.Description: Pick Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heaters can be used to heat any water-miscible liquid or slurry instantaneously where sufficient steam pressure is available. Pick Heaters offers a DSI solution for a ...
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Measurement Error Due to a Bent Ball Bar
Description: Max measurement error due to a bent ball bar measured at different rotational (about the balls’ common axis) positions ...
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Next Generation Reactor System Design Decisions will Make or Break Investor Confidence
From: Ultra EnergyDescription: Partnering with a system developer that already has next generation experience will help you avoid early errors that can challenge your business plan. ...
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Technical Paper: How Gage Blocks are Wrung Together
Description: Everyone handling Precision Gage Blocks is proud of his or her ability to wring them together quickly and easily. Sometimes, due to haste, the blocks are not properly cleaned or are not placed in ...
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What is an Estimate of Measurement Uncertainty?
Description: An estimate of measurement uncertainty is a value that expresses the uncertainty or reliability of a given measurement value. When the conditions affecting a measurement result in a less certain ...
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Turbine Flowmeter Water Treatment Case Study
From: Macnaught USA, Inc.Description: A Water Treatment services contractor was in need of a replacement for a meter from another OEM which continually displayed inaccurate flow readings. The meter was installed in the postchlorination ...
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Brake Servo Motor
Description: Compared with the ordinary motor, the servo motor has an encoder structure, which will move synchronously with the motor rotor, continuously collect the torque, speed and position information of the ...
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Turbine Inlet Coils, Part 2: Why Inlet Cooling?
Description: It is common knowledge that the widespread use of air conditioning during high temperatures can put major stresses on the electrical grid. But those hot summer days can also cause another power ...
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Maintenance of Automatic Locking Screw Machine
Description: Automatic lock screw machine is not a big drawback from design and principle itself, but many times we will overlook one problem: screw quality. Domestic manufacturers of screw screw inferior relative ...
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The Benefits of Using DayCor® During Commissioning
From: OFIL SystemsDescription: The awareness of engineers to the effects of electric corona PD & arcing on assets’ reliability led to the proliferation in the use of DayCor® daytime corona cameras. As non-destructive ...
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How to Help Prevent Heat Stress in Industrial Work Environments
From: MSA SafetyDescription: At outdoor jobs with high sun exposure such as construction, working at height, and oil and gas, dangerous conditions due to heat stress are prominent – especially during the spring and summer ...
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Excessive Vibration of Servo Motor
Description: The servo motor has an encoder structure, which can realize the industrial control execution structure of motion feedback. It is generally connected to the PLC through the bus to realize precise ...
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It's been a cold winter. Have you checked your coils for freeze damage?
Description: No matter how well built a coil may be, when water freezes inside the copper tubes, the ice can expand until the tubes burst. ...
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Case Study: Screwdriving Robot Delivers Speed and Streamlined Integration
Description: This Viper MBC screwdriving system integrated a FANUC SCARA robot arriving complete to the machine builder. They were able to mount the robot and program screwdriving coordinates in one day. ...
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Have You Found an Igniter You Like?
Description: INNOVACERA'S advanced igniters are simply the best for lighting wood pellet and biomass burners. They use only a fraction of the energy required by hot air fans and ignition blowers and will light all ...
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The Benefits of Protective Atmosphere in Welding
From: Environics, Inc.Description: This article will provide an overview of welding and explain the importance of protective atmospheres. ...
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The Need For HEPA Filtration During Mushroom Cultivation
Description: For thousands of years, foraging mushrooms in nature has been a human pursuit. Modern scientists, called mycologists, study molds, yeasts, and other fungi to determine which ones are edible, toxic, or ...
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Understanding VOC Gas and Its Impact on the Environment
From: Environics, Inc.Description: This article dives into the origins and effects of VOC gas on the environment and on human health. ...
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What does IP grade mean?
Description: When we purchase PLC and other equipment, we often see the item of IP level, such as IP20, IP65 and so on. The full name of IP level is IP protection level, which is the dustproof and moisture proof ...
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Component of PLC
Description: Among them, the power supply is responsible for providing power support to the equipment, and the more common specification is 9-30VDC. The input IO port is responsible for collecting digital or ...
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7 Ways to Reduce Production Downtime
From: Busch Vacuum SolutionsDescription: It looks like you are using an old version of the Microsoft Edge browser. To get the best experience with the Busch website, please update your browser. Production downtime is one of the biggest risks ...
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A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing
Description: 3D printing is an additive manufacturing process that uses thin layers of filament (in most cases, plastic) to create a physical object from a three-dimensional model. A digital file creates the model ...
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Automotive Manufacturing: High-Accuracy and Repeatability Using Large Volume Raise3D Printers
Description: By integrating Raise3D additive manufacturing, DRAKES has elevated its manufacturing process to directly print final pieces in a faster and more accurate process than traditional fabrication. ...
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How is 3D Printing Used in the Medical Industry?
Description: Professionals in the medical field are working directly with people. Their work affects families. As such, the medical field updates their methods and tactics to make procedures safer, diagnosis more ...
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How to Use 3D Printing for Prototyping
Description: Prototyping is always a mandatory process for product development. It plays a role to ensure the design outcome performing right in every aspect and feasible for mass-production ...
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Process heating electrification: Total cost benefits beyond reduced carbon emissions
From: ChromaloxDescription: In 2023, there is significant concern over the environmental impact of carbon emissions, with industry representing one of the chief worldwide CO2 emitters. This has led to a concerted push for ...
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Agriculture Chemical Flow Meter
From: Macnaught USA, Inc.Description: A leading manufacturer of Agriculture Chem Stations was looking for improved flowmeter accuracy as their long standing nutating disc-type meter was having issues accurately measuring differing fluids. ...
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Is PLC a strong current device or a weak current device?
Description: The so-called strong electricity refers to the electricity that is mainly used for energy transmission, such as electric fans will turn when they are supported by electricity, lights will turn on when ...
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3 Mixer and Blender Parts to Keep on Hand to Avoid Downtime
From: Marion Process SolutionsDescription: When it comes to processing equipment like mixers and blenders, it's often not a question of if, but when a crucial component will start to wear out. ...
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4 Screener and Sifter Parts that will Save You in an Emergency
From: Kason CorporationDescription: Just like death and taxes, one thing is certain about screeners and sifters: Some of their internal components won't last forever. ...
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5 Questions to Ask Before Ordering Processing Equipment Parts
From: Kason CorporationDescription: A checklist can ensure you're getting exactly what your equipment needs and help you save money in the process. ...