Manufacturing and Process Equipment Reference Materials

Description: Process description: Mechanical feedstock processing system designed for size reduction and material reclamation of plastic parts to feed downstream granulators. ...

Description: The machine has been installed in 2004 in order to recycle used timber from the area of Melbourne to wood chips, which can be used in fort he production of chip boards. ...

Description: Property rooms or evidence rooms are secure areas, typically in a police station, used to store seized or stolen property and criminal evidence until the items can be returned to their rightful owners ...

Description: Multiple Grinders Work Best For Penn Pallet Operations: Pennsylvania Company Upgrades Two Vecoplan Grinders at Main Plant ...

Description: The disposal plant of OFFNER wood industry is designed for the separate collection of sawdust and wood chips in between the Johann OFFNER Holzindustrie GmbH Neuhäuslweg A-9400 Wolfsberg profi le ...

Description: Process description: Mechanical feedstock processing system designed for size reduction and material reclamation of PE, PCs, PP and ABS purgings, garbage cans, pallets and totes. ...

Description: Process description: Mechanical feedstock processing system designed for size reduction and material reclamation HDPE Pipe. ...

Description: Process description: Mechanical feedstock processing system designed for size reduction and material reclamation PP fiber, PE film, PP film and PP non-wovens to 3" particle size. ...

Description: The drum chipper is feed by a dosing conveyor with following vibratory conveyor. ...

Description: The disposal plant of the sawmill Sunchang is designed for the separate collection of sawdust and wood chips in between the profile chipping line. Further the residue wood of the sawmill is separately ...

Description: Our Monster rubber parking stops are designed to protect parking structures, vehicles, and pedestrians. They are manufactured from premium, recycled rubber. Rubber parking stop benefits are plentiful, ...

Description: Process description: Mechanical feedstock processing system designed for size reduction and material reclamation miscellaneous plastics. ...

Description: VECOPLAN references in the fi eld of waste timber recycling handle waste timber that is in its natural state for example from green waste tasks as well as wood from demolition tasks are wood separated ...

Description: n 2006 we have been able to finalize the long term negotiations successfully with the company West Coast Paper and we were ordered to supply 2 chipping lines for West Coast Paper in Dandeli. ...

Description: Additive manufacturing (AM) encompasses methods of fabrication that build objects through the successive addition of material, as opposed to subtractive methods such as CNC machining, that remove ...

Description: Microscopes play a key role in documenting regulatory compliance at all stages of the manufacturing process, from initial development to volume production. ...

Description: This paper will review hydrogen supply basics for the semiconductor industry, and introduce an on-site method of hydrogen carrier gas supply for manufacturing semiconductor devices, presently in use ...

Description: Originally built in 1972, Greenville Memorial Hospital, the flagship hospital of the Greenville Health System (GHS), was still operating 322 induction units in 267 patient rooms and support spaces. ...

Description: Many manufacturing processes today rely on hydrogen as an important protective and reducing atmosphere, especially in the production of stainless steel alloys. The method of gas delivery should be ...

Description: PEM electrolysis on-site hydrogen can be helpful to many customers. Particular benefits are evident for users requiring highly pure hydrogen, customers wishing to avoid hydrogen delivery or storage, ...

Description: During an average day, there are many opportunities in which one can admire ceramic artistry. Whether it is a favorite morning coffee mug, impressive place setting at a restaurant during business ...

Description: Explosion protection is an important topic across many areas of industry, from chemical/petrochemicals and mining to the likes of foodstuffs production and even the processing of light metals. ...

Description: What is more important to your company's production: up front cost of the heater or total cost of heating? ...

Description: The seizure of a cartridge heater in a bore can mean many hours of maintenance labor to extract the heater, downtime, and lost productivity. ...

Description: Uniform sheath temperature is critical when working with engineered plastics, most of which require tight temperature windows for processing. ...

Description: There are typically two types of boilers in the industry that utilize a standby-mode strategy -auxiliary boilers and process boilers. Each boiler type has a very specific role but essentially performs ...

Description: Shoe manufacturers can maintain clean IAQ and protect workers with air purifying systems. ...

Description: When attempting to answer questions about what cleaning solutions work best for certain applications and which are most cost effective, it's important to also consider what type of parts washer would ...

Description: With the end of new CFC production on January 1, 1996, concentration is focusing on the phase-out schedule for HCFCs. Below is a table that shows relevant dates for HCFCs. Of particular note for ...

Description: The Engineering teams at Permea China, LTD and Air Products Prism Membranes design and commission an efficient, low-pressure hydrogen separation system used in glycol manufacturing processes. Using ...

Description: The refrigeration system removes heat from the product and the air which lowers the temperature in the chamber. The heat is moved through the refrigeration system and rejected at the condenser. There ...

Description: The amount of efficiency you can pull out of your woodchip fuel is directly related to your treatment of the trees you harvest, and the lumber you put through the chipper. ...

Description: It's only a matter of time before our precious pets are sitting at the head of the dinner table, ready to tuck into the same human food that we enjoy each day. But until then, pet owners will continue ...

Description: You've got skills, and some really great ideas, but your equipment is turning out to be a one-trick pony that only plays well with certain types of material. ...

Description: "Strong Manufacturing" is a leading manufacturer of equipment for mixing and pumping lightweight insulating concrete and floor underlayments. From a mixer compact enough to fit in the bed of a small ...

Description: Most of us are familiar with the standard bottle or glue stick, but the technology in dispensing adhesives and specialty chemicals has grown exponentially. Read this infographic to learn more about ...

Description: As more manufacturers are embracing sustainable manufacturing methods, technical colleges and universities are experiencing an increase in demand for graduates that can implement processes that ...

Description: Human vision and perception are the ultimate determinants of display quality, however human judgment is variable, making it difficult to define and apply quantitatively in research or production ...

Description: Automation is becoming more common throughout the industrial world. Users are trying to make processes more efficient while also trying to keep costs down. Wireless technology has evolved rapidly over ...

Description: The ancient art of metalworking has played an important role in the evolution of mankind - so much so that entire chapters of human history are known as the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Today, metal ...

Description: A very large fabricator of aluminum products was faced with three issues; a growing concern over the health of their employees (days lost due to sickness), potential for OSHA air quality violations ...

Description: A Midwestern Hitch Manufacturer had bought a Laser Table and an OEM Dust Collector. The Dust Collector provided by the Table Mfr clogged the filters within the first week of operation. Frantic, the ...

Description: Isaacson Steel, a large structural steel fabricator located in Berlin, New Hampshire, experienced a fire in an existing cartridge dust collector. Aquest Corp., Micro Air's distributor in the area, ...

Description: Harley-Davidson was looking for a small downdraft table/backdraft hood system for grinding operations in their Pennsylvania manufacturing facility. When they approached Spartan Air Purification, the ...

Description: We initially received a call from one of our OEM's that one of their customers required a large central system for their new building. Since a central system was not a typical system sold through our ...

Description: A large Tier 1 automotive supplier approached the local Micro Air distributor, Slade Associates, about a very large dust and fume control project at one of their stamping facilities in Ohio. The ...

Description: The Army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey was looking for fume/smoke collection equipment for their new welding school on the base and contacted Spartan Air Purification, the local Micro Air distributor. ...

Description: As a major manufacturer of hard candies, NECCO wanted to ensure their manufacturing facility met the new requirement for the OSHA National Combustible Dust Emphasis Program. During their manufacturing ...

Description: NIKE GOLF's Fort Worth TX location, better known as "The Oven" is dedicated to R & D for the development of performance golf clubs, hand-crafted to meet NIKE's individual tour golfer's specs, testing ...

Description: Reed Industrial, the exclusive Micro Air distributor in Louisiana, was asked to provide a dust collection system for a very large steel grit blasting room. The challenge was fitting the dust collector ...

Description: A major recycling operation was generating dust in the process of crushing and recycling electronic components such as computer monitors, TVs and other outdated equipment. The dust being generated had ...

Description: Vacuum diffusion pumps require an effective heating system to drive the pump. Conventional designs often employ a complicated series of components that must be carefully matched up, adding unnecessary ...

Description: Routine boiler maintenance is important to avoid boiler equipment failure. Today's boilers are engineered with controls designed to protect the system and alert an operator to an issue before it ...

Description: Reference information to assist you in the selection of Watt-Flex heaters for new process heating designs. ...

Description: Ultrasonic thickness gages have progressed a long way since their early development in the 1960's. The first thickness gages were large and bulky although they used the same conventional longitudinal ...

Description: Component corrosion performance can be greatly improved by the use of corrosion resistant coatings. ...

Description: A sophisticated hydraulic control system on the customer's volumetric concrete mixer requires equally sophisticated filtration to protect the precision valves. The economy filters used on prototypes ...

Description: When selecting a coating, it is very important that the coating have the correct formulation to provide the needed temperature advantage. ...

Description: The food manufacturing industry requires dependable, efficient industrial heating equipment to create the high-quality products consumers expect. Wattco industrial immersion heaters are a perfect fit ...

Description: Wattco inline heaters are designed to enhance the performance of a regular immersion heater, heating up liquid solutions while maximizing efficiency. These units are ideally suited for heating ...

Description: Circulation heaters, sometimes called In Line Heaters, are compact heating units used in a variety of ways across industry. Common applications for circulation heaters include heating liquids and ...

Description: It's easy to blame winter injuries on cold weather, snow or ice. But blame won't take away the employee's pain, lost work time or workers' compensation costs associated with an incident. ...

Description: Induction heating relies on the existence of eddy currents discovered by Léon Foucault in 1855. Briefly, when a changing magnetic field passes through any conductive object, current flow is induced in ...

Description: Hexapods, six-legged parallel-kinematic machines, are quickly gaining ground in a broad range of industrial automation applications after "learning" how to directly communicate with PLC or CNC ...

Description: If we asked you how long you'd like your aqueous cleaning product to last, you'd probably say something like "forever," and you wouldn't be joking. In a perfect world, our cleaning solutions would ...

Description: Specialists in the investment casting and machining of alloy metals, such as aluminium and titanium, which are primarily used for jet aircraft engines and airframes, have to measure the dimensions of ...

Description: A customer wanted a reliable, accurate and fully automated system to fill his trucks with a mix of Chlorine solution and water. Some challenges were, maintaining the desired ratio in each flow range, ...

Description: Bagginess is not easily measured, but here are some methods to compare low, moderate, and high levels of bagginess. ...

Description: In case proper temperature is not maintained during cold winter weather, the liquid solutions stored within the tank would freeze resulting in wastage of a large amount of these costly liquids. Using ...

Description: The type of heaters used in bitumen heating will depend on how much of viscosity is required and how high the temperature must reach. ...

Description: When it comes to cryogenic chilling, processors may be better starting at the bottom. The bottom of their mixer, that is. Strategically injecting cryogens such as carbon dioxide or liquid nitrogen ...

Description: Sennestahl was concerned about the time and money it was spending on maintenance and on the replacement of ventilator fans, which were being damaged due to vibration. The company was also concerned ...

Description: The use of electric heaters in homes has become common for a while, but it is only now that their use in petrochemical and chemical industries has increased. This is largely due to the enhancement of ...

Description: Flange heaters are made to mount on tanks via an external flange. These flanges can easily be bolted on but in some cases, it's necessary to weld matching components for installation. ...

Description: Before installing an immersion heater for industrial processes, it is crucial to choose the right kind of heater fit for your purposes. ...

Description: Industrial Heaters, or Process Heaters, as they are commonly referred to, are used to make a wide variety of processes more efficient across a large range of industries including the water ...

Description: Flanged Immersion Heaters are one of several known for heating gases and liquids such as water, oil, heat transfer fluid and corrosive solutions. The direct immersion method is both energy efficient ...

Description: Nitrogen gas is often used to blanket food oils and petrochemical storage tanks for safety and product quality reasons. The cold from liquid nitrogen can also be used to control VOC emissions from ...

Description: There are as many types of control panels as there are industries and applications, but they can be separated into five categories. These categories are listed below. ...

Description: WHMIS 1988 - Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs): General ...

Description: Quick, accurate, and cost effective, the Solartron Miniature Flexures are frequently utilized in these types of bearing checks. It is small enough to be mounted to a bore gauge, and its double flexure ...

Description: Additive manufacturing technology is dramatically changing how things are made, and Fortus® 3D Production Systems from Stratasys® are at the forefront of this transformation. Fortus systems ...

Description: There is an often-overlooked additive manufacturing (AM) application with potentially huge financial returns. Savings can be so large that they can justify the purchase of an AM (or 3D printing) ...

Description: Many thousand years ago, ferrous materials were found to be quite rare and only accessible as debris of meteorites. Back then iron and its natural alloys were used in accessories like jewelry or ...

Description: Field metallography is a non-destructive in-situ testing of metallurgical condition of metallic components. The procedure is carried out in the field without the need to remove a component. The ...

Description: Earlier on in The Aqueous Cleaning Blog we took a general look at the different aqueous cleaning chemistries that are out there today, as well as the types of soils they can remove. Now let's take an ...

Description: Microstructural analysis has played, and continues to play, a key role in the development of thermally-sprayed coatings. The advances in equipment and consumable technology for evaluating coatings ...

Description: To many, metal 3-D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), is way out there on the "someday" horizon. In reality, however, it's already in use in multiple industries, providing a highly favorable ...

Description: Many industries such as manufacturing and chemical processing require substances to be at precise temperatures to manufacture products. Often times, industrial heaters are used for their efficacy and ...

Description: There are hundreds of Rousseau products out there so you may be unsure of how much weight your particular product is capable of supporting. So here's a little guide to help you find out the capacity ...

Description: An immersion heater is a device which heats various fluid types like water, oil, salts, solvents, and acids. With it immersed in the fluid that it is warming, all the heat generated is within the ...

Description: Immersion heaters are the best way a food processing business can maintain a high-quality product and comply with governmental safety requirements. Immersion heating is a reliable and efficient ...

Description: Immersion heaters are some of Wattco's most popular products. They are one of the best heating solutions available due to their precision, efficiency, and low maintenance costs. Immersions heaters, ...

Description: Considering these basic rules for designing thermal heat transfers will expand a project's productivity, enhance your process, and diminish energy loss. An electric heater can distribute heat where ...

Description: The application of imaging colorimeters improves OLED and microLED display production by ensuring visual quality of displays-measuring brightness and color uniformity at the pixel and subpixel level ...

Description: Perhaps no single component is as critical to the usability and perceived quality of today's smartphones, tablets, and other electronics as their displays. Flat panel displays (FPDs) serve as the ...

Description: Precision measurement of luminance and chromaticity in information displays, light sources, or other light emitting or reflecting materials requires careful consideration of application requirements ...

Description: A control system is an essential part of every industrial heating system. Whereas some applications may require a control system more than others, it is important to ensure that all process heating ...

Description: DRG Globe Envelope of Canada produced 750,000 Courier pouches, with moderate blue ink coverage, using manual viscosity control and consumed 80kg of ink. In a second job of 760,000 impressions, they ...

Description: Saint Clair Systems works with a 3-pc. can manufacturer to reduce variation in their end liner operation. Controlling the material temperature stabilized the pressure at the nozzle and yielded some ...