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Shrink fitting a gear securely on a shaft (automotive) [MEC]
Description: The customer was using a torch, which can lead to inconsistent part quality. Induction's precise heating means the client can count on consistent results in their process ...
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CVC Shake-Out Table
Description: Low Profile Shake-Out Table (SGT-O) saves AC Foundry $5000/year in replacement parts and days/month of downtime, providing continuous duty service in breaking 1000 mold boxes per day. ...
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Single Impact keeps Sticky Chemicals off Bin walls
Description: 1400 Single Impact (SI) Air Piston does the job where continuous vibration didn't work for a major manufacturer of inorganic chemicals. ...
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Annealing the end of steel wire on a woven wire mesh [IH]
Description: Induction heating provides faster production process, high efficiency, low energy costs compared to gas furnace, fast, controllable process and hands-free heating that involves no operator skill for ...
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Annealing the end of steel wire on a woven wire mesh [MEC]
Description: Induction heating provides faster production process, high efficiency, low energy costs compared to gas furnace, fast, controllable process and hands-free heating that involves no operator skill for ...
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Debonding inserts for manifold [IH]
Description: A four-turn two-position helical coil is used to debond the inserts from the plastic. The coil is placed against the manifold and power is applied to the two inserts for 15 seconds to soften the ...
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Debonding inserts for manifold [MEC]
Description: A four-turn two-position helical coil is used to debond the inserts from the plastic. The coil is placed against the manifold and power is applied to the two inserts for 15 seconds to soften the ...
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Direct vs. Indirect Sonication Methods
From: Qsonica, LLCDescription: DIRECT Sonication (inserting a probe directly into a sample vessel) is the most common way to process a sample. Energy is transmitted from the probe directly into the sample with high intensity and ...
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Find more space in your control panel
Description: Learn how to apply multiple branches and multi-wire terminals with circuit breakers in industrial control panels in accordance with Underwriters Laboratories (UL ) standard 508A and the National ...
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Heating a steel ball on a pin for an insertion application [MEC]
Description: To heat a steel ball on a pin to 212 ºF (100 ºC) for insertion into a nylon joint cup assembly to create automatic suspension ball studs... ...
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Is Conventional Water Treatment Still Relevant?
Description: Recently the water treatment community has been caught up in the race to apply increasingly sophisticated water treatment technology for the production of drinking water. Some of these technologies ...
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what is grit blasting
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Abrasive grit blasting, or sand blast cleaning, is a surface treatment process widely used in a variety of different industries with many diverse purposes. Abrasive blasting is the process by which an ...
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what is waterjet cleaning
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Water jet stripping or cleaning, or water blast cleaning, is a widely used process for the removal of material, coating, or contamination from the surface of a work piece. Progressive Surface has ...
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White Paper: A Practical Guide to Sampling and Testing Filter Media
Description: This paper presents a practical guide to obtaining a representative sample of filter media at the point of manufacture and on the job site as well as providing insight into selecting a media testing ...
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White Paper: The Effect of Low Uniformity Coefficient Anthracite on Dual Media Filtration
Description: The Philadelphia Suburban Water Company replaced the support gravel and media in four of the dual media filters at the Pickering West Water Treatment Plant in Phoenixville, PA. The support gravel and ...
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Whitepaper: Suggested Method for Sampling a Filter
Description: Suggested Method for Sampling a Filter ...
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A Case Study in Creativity
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: The following case study explains how natural gas pipeline powder coater EB Pipe Coating (Panama City, Fla.) used four Vortex A/C electrical enclosure coolers to solve space and configuration issues ...
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Roboworld: Protecting Robots in Extreme Environments
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: In 1994, after a career of more than 20 years as an engineer designing products for major corporations in the field of robotics and automation, Charlie Tur identified a pressing yet unmet need among ...
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Vortec Chills Out Control Panels in Food Manufacturing Plants
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: Food manufacturing equipment must withstand frequent washdowns in order to maintain quality standards. Electrical panels on this equipment therefore must maintain NEMA 4X ratings. High temperature ...
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ACID SEPARATION FOR IMPURITY CONTROL AND ACID RECYCLE USING SHORT BED ION EXCHANGE
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Acid separation using short bed ion exchange is a now well established technology in copper refinery tankhouses. Refinery bleed streams from liberator cells are treated by short bed systems to produce ...
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Anneal oval cutout on stainless steel tube prior to extrusion [IH]
Description: The coil is placed over the oval cutout and power is supplied for 15 seconds to anneal a .25 (6.35mm) diameter around the cutout. ...
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Anneal oval cutout on Stainless steel tube prior to extrusion [MEC]
Description: The coil is placed over the oval cutout and power is supplied for 15 seconds to anneal a .25 (6.35mm) diameter around the cutout. ...
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Brazing tubes and fittings for an air conditioning unit for the off-road market [IH]
Description: With the 10kW Ambrell EASYHEAT power supply, the part can be heated to temperature in 35 seconds. With a four-position coil, the per-part process time is just nine seconds. ...
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"Right-Sizing" Components & Systems
Description: Designers sometimes oversize components in order to build in a margin of safety. However, this safety factor can add quite a bit to the cost of operating your system. What may be less obvious, ...
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A Primer on Pressure Drop
Description: All of Lytron's thermal systems are designed for maximum performance at a specific flow rate. Less flow will cause the system to under perform. Flow rate is dependent upon the system's pressure drop ...
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Aircraft Liquid Cooling
Description: Aircraft engineers today are charged with creating a More Electric Aircraft (MEA) with greater processing capabilities, while also minimizing the aircraft's weight and power consumption. With MEA, ...
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Aluminum Corrosion Resistance for Cold Plates and Plate-Fin Heat Exchangers
Description: Aluminum cold plates and plate-fin heat exchangers are commonly used for liquid cooling in military and aerospace applications because of their light weight and high performance. There are many ...
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Assessing the Quality of a Tubed Cold Plate
Description: As many applications move from air cooling to liquid cooling, tubed cold plates are often the technology of choice. Their growing presence begs the question "What are the significant criteria for ...
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Avoiding Galvanic Corrosion
Description: When selecting components for your cooling loop, you must consider their material compatibility as well as their individual performance. Although an aluminum cold plate paired with a copper-tubed heat ...
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Back to ListCustom Cooling System Economics
Description: Cooling systems, including compressor-based chillers, liquid-to-liquid cooling systems, and ambient cooling systems, can be purchased as standard products "off-the-shelf", modified from existing ...
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Choosing a Quick Disconnect Coupler
Description: TEMPERATURE - Know your minimum and maximum temperature range. Standard temperature tolerances range from -40º F to 200º F depending on coupler material. PRESSURE - What is the maximum pressure your ...
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Choosing the Right Fluid Connector for Your Liquid Cooling Application - Part 1: Fittings
Description: Fluid line connectors are critical in liquid cooling applications. Selection, installation, and maintenance of a systemâ s fluid connections are all important in preventing leaks and maintaining ...
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Choosing the Right Fluid Connector for Your Liquid Cooling Application - Part 2: Couplings
Description: Fluid line connectors are critical in liquid cooling applications. Selection, installation, and maintenance of a systemâ s fluid connections are all important in preventing leaks and maintaining ...
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Coatings for Custom Heat Exchangers and Cold Plates
Description: Custom heat exchangers and cold plates are often coated for corrosion protection or for cosmetic purposes. Chemical conversion coating, anodization, e-coating, and painting are four coating options ...
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Cold Plate Manufacturing Cost Drivers
Description: Cold plate prices can vary quite a bit; understanding why can help you cut costs and still obtain the performance you need to properly cool your application. The two biggest cost drivers in cold plate ...
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Deionized Water
Description: Tap water meets the needs of most liquid-cooling applications. However, deionized water has chemical and electrical properties that make it the optimal choice for cooling when the liquid circuit ...
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Designing a Liquid Cooling Loop for High-Performance Systems
Description: Embedded systems are becoming more and more complex, processing and analyzing a growing number of sensors and signals. The result of this increased computing is often higher and more concentrated ...
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Designing Custom Cold Plates
Description: Liquid-cooled cold plates offer superior cooling for high power electronic devices, and can be purchased as standard products or can be custom designed. A custom cold plate is needed when there is a ...
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Erosion-Corrosion in Cooling Systems
Description: Heat exchangers and cold plates are used in cooling applications to remove and transfer heat from one place to another using a heat transfer fluid such as water, ethylene glycol and water solution, ...
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Fins for Cooling Success
Description: As high-power electronics continue to push power density limits, component design engineers are facing greater challenges and trade-offs in their choice for cooling solutions. One way to meet these ...
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Fitting and Hose Clamp Selection for Cold Plates and Heat Exchangers
Description: The selection of the proper fittings and hose clamps for cold plates and heat exchangers is critical to a reliable liquid cooling system. It can prevent unnecessary downtime and equipment damage. ...
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Fundamentals of Heat Transfer
Description: The following is a brief overview of some fundamental heat transfer concepts. To learn more, the reader is encouraged to review the source publications and Web sites. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics ...
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How to Measure your Heat Load
Description: The first step in selecting the proper product for your cooling system application is to determine the heat load, or the amount of heat generated by your system. This article explains how to establish ...
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Kays and London's Colburn and Friction Factors
Description: Since it was first published in 1955, the book Compact Heat Exchangers, by Kays and London, has been considered one of the best references for heat exchanger and cold plate design. Kays and Londonâ s ...
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Laser Marking: Scratching the Surface
From: RMI Laser, LLCDescription: In the past, CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers dominated the marking, cutting and welding of industrial tooling and manufactured goods. These laser types were the first to be brought to the marketplace and they ...
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Liquid Cooling a Laser for System Optimization
Description: The performance of high-powered lasers depends on effective cooling. High-powered lasers generate a significant amount of heat that must be removed from the laser system to avoid overheating critical ...
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Preventing Corrosion in Cooling Systems
Description: Water and water/glycol solutions are common heat transfer fluids used in cooling systems and recirculating chillers. Although the fluids are the lifeblood for your heat transfer applications, they can ...
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Reducing Contact Thermal Resistance
Description: The trend in the electronics packaging industry is towards smaller, more powerful devices. With these small, high power components, however, there are also higher heat fluxes. As a result, engineers ...
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Selecting A Cold Plate Technology
Description: To select the best cold plate for your application, you need to know the cooling fluid flow rate, the fluid inlet temperature, the heat load of the devices attached to the cold plate, and the maximum ...
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Sizing a Heat Exchanger for Cold Plate Applications
Description: In many liquid cooling loops, the heat that is picked up by a cold plate is rejected to the ambient air via a heat exchanger. Figure 1 shows a typical liquid cooling loop, consisting of a cold plate ...
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The Best Heat Transfer Fluids for Liquid Cooling
Description: Now that youâ ve determined liquid cooling is the solution, do you know what heat transfer fluid to use? One of the most important factors when choosing a liquid cooling technology for your ...
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Thermal Interface Materials - A Brief Overview
Description: To be effective, all cold plates require intimate surface-to-surface contact with the component or board-to-be-cooled. Unfortunately, irregular surface areas, both on the electronic components and on ...
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Vacuum Brazing of Aluminum Cold Plates and Heat Exchangers
Description: Vacuum brazing is a high-end joining technology because it results in parts with extremely strong joints and with no residual corrosive flux. It is a process in which two base metals, such as aluminum ...
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When is it necessary to add glycol in your coolant?
Description: Lytron recommends using a 30/70 glycol-water mixture with its recirculating chillers whenever the coolant temperature set point is below 10°C (48°F). The glycol lowers the freezing point of the ...
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Big Flat Creek Water
From: Hoffman-LamsonDescription: The prestigious Georgia Water and Pollution Control Association Award for 2003 was presented to the Big Flat Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Loganville, Georgia. The Big Flat Creek facility ...
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Gardner Denver® Blowers Accommodate Growth at a Savings - MINDIS TREATMENT SERVICES
From: Hoffman-LamsonDescription: The Mindis facility in Atlanta, Georgia began operations in 1994 to treat non-hazardous industrial wastewater. Today, the plant treats over 2 million gallons per month and has an extensive fleet of ...
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Utoy Creek Water Reclamation Center
From: Hoffman-LamsonDescription: A featured stop on the WEFTEC facility tour, the City of Atlanta's Utoy Creek Water Reclamation Center represents the latest in water treatment plant design and technology. Newly renovated and ...
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Wastewater Industry Adopts a Truly Made in U.S.A. Technology
From: Hoffman-LamsonDescription: Offi cials responsible for the Airport Parkway Sewage Treatment Plant (located in South Burlington, Vermont) were notifi ed in March 2011 by federal investigators, that their newly acquired high-effi ...
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Explaining Laser Marking Technology
From: RMI Laser, LLCDescription: First, let's quickly address the basics of a laser. As you may know, laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. On a very basic level, a laser amplifies light by ...
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Case Study: A Madrid, Spain-based precision engineering business specializing in complex parts for aerospace and defense applications has invested in a Renishaw REVO® five-axis measuring head and probe system.
From: RenishawDescription: The change has resulted in a reduction in inspection time by as much as a factor of 5, ensuring quality control and inspection keep up with its high-productivity CNC machine tools. ...
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Case Study: Measurement system retrofit reduces inspection times and gains new business for world-class manufacturer
From: RenishawDescription: Mike Sullivan founded Future Advanced Manufacture Ltd (Future AM) thirty years ago and realised immediately that competing on price was not the way forward: "There's always a 'Fred in the shed' down ...
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Case Study: Precision manufacturer relies on Renishaw for the production of critical components
From: RenishawDescription: Since adopting the machine tool probes, Associated Tools have benefited from an elimination of component rejections, and a 66% reduction in tooling set up times. ...
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Curing epoxy on aluminum copier roller assembly [IH]
Description: A four turn helical pancake coil is used to heat the end of the copier roller assembly. The assembly is heated 90 seconds to cure the adhesive. ...
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Curing epoxy on aluminum copier roller assembly [MEC]
Description: A four turn helical pancake coil is used to heat the end of the copier roller assembly. The assembly is heated 90 seconds to cure the adhesive. ...
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Heat a block of Haynes nickel alloy to test the crack growth rate [IH]
Description: Heat a block of Haynes nickel alloy from 600 ºF (316 ºC) to 1600 ºF (871 ºC) in order to collect data on the crack growth rate for an aerospace application. ...
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Comparing Oil/Water Separator Coalescers: The Multi-Pack™ Vs. The Rest of the Pack
Description: the pages that follow describe some of the various coalescer designs on the market today. While each is manufactured to help oil droplets collide and coalesce to the top of a vessel, they all have an ...
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Au / Pd Coatings in the nm Range on Printed Circuit Boards
From: Fischer Technology, Inc.Description: As the electronics industry makes use of ever thinner coatings, manufacturers increase their demands on measuring technologies to provide reliable parameters for product monitoring. One example is the ...
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Brazing a steel and brass immersion heating element [IH]
Description: Induction results in faster heating than a torch with faster, multi-part heating to increase output... ...
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Brazing a steel and brass immersion heating element [MEC]
Description: Induction results in faster heating than a torch with faster, multi-part heating to increase output... ...
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Factors to Consider When Selecting a Stereo Microscope
From: Leica Microsystems, Inc.Description: Stereo microscopes are often nicknamed the workhorse of the lab or the production department. Users spend many hours behind the ocular inspecting, observing, documenting or dissecting samples. Which ...
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Improving the Grease Dispensing Process.
From: TechconDescription: Automotive parts manufacturers as well as other manufacturers have been challenged with dispensing liquids and pastes while assembling components in their facilities throughout the world. Part of the ...
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Radiant Roof Snow Melt and Deicing
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: Damage caused to buildings, people and property by snow and ice build-up and removal, ice dams, and icicles amounts to millions of dollars each year. The effectiveness of the methods historically used ...
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Roof Deicing Under Membrane Roof Covering Materials
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: Heatizon Systems makes roof snow melt and deicing products that utilize one of two different heating elements, Tuff Cable or ZMesh. Tuff Cable, a copper cable surrounded by an insulator which is ...
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Toasty Toes Floor Warming
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: There's nothing like a hot bubble bath on a frigid winter's night. And, nothing snaps you back to reality faster than stepping out of the tub and onto a cold tile floor. These days, fewer people are ...
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Automated Escalator Lubrication
From: Oil-Rite Corp.Description: A customer came to Oil-Rite Corporation looking for a precise and reliable method of applying lubricant. ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - APPLICATIONS IN MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: By getting support from the cleaner manufacturer, time and money can be saved in establishing either cleaning validation or cleaning verification processes. This is critical as cleaning validation or ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - APPLICATIONS IN PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: The benefits of employing aqueous cleaning in pharmaceutical manufacturing are numerous. Virtually any pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment from tablet press to a stainless steel mixing tank can ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - CLEANING VALIDATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: By getting support from the cleaner manufacturer, time and money can be saved in establishing either cleaning validation or cleaning verification processes. This is critical as cleaning validation or ...
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AQUEOUS CRITICAL CLEANING: A WHITE PAPER - CLEANING VALIDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: Cleaning validation is a necessary and time consuming part of manufacturing pharmaceuticals. The validation process can be expedited and cost of validation can be lowered if the cleaner supplier can ...
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Key Procedures and Aqueous Cleaning Agents for Metal and Electronic Component Cleaning
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: The terms precision or critical cleaning apply whenever residue can cause a failure in the performance or function of the surface being cleaned. In general industry this includes electronic component ...
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Nanotechnology Critical Cleaning for Quality & Safety
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: Nanotechnology is currently employed across a wide range of industrial, research, and academic applications. Stringent cleaning protocols are essential to the successful fabrication of nanotechnology ...
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The Significance of Critical Cleaning for Solar Module Fabrication
From: Alconox, Inc.Description: With increased governmental commitments to support renewable energy initiatives, winners and losers in solar module fabrication will be determined more quickly and by a variety of factors. One factor ...
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Annealing lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar [IH]
Description: Annealing a 1" lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar that has been work hardened during the process of spin forming. ...
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Annealing lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar [MEC]
Description: Annealing a 1" lip on aluminum cryogenic dewar that has been work hardened during the process of spin forming. ...
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Bonding plastic sleeve to stainless steel tube [IH]
Description: Induction heating is used to bond the end of a stainless steel handle with a plastic sleeve coated with adhesive ... ...
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The Unsung Contributor to Plant Economic Performance
From: ASCODescription: Wherever goods and materials are manufactured, processed, or packaged, the process often depends on fluid automation components. These include fluid control products such as solenoid pilot valves, ...
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The Influence of the Expansion Process on Pore Size
Description: PolyGrid™ precision-expanded plastics from Dexmet are used in filtration applications requiring membrane support, purification and separation. Designing a precision expanded plastic material ...
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Brazing Brass Ship Fittings for Repair [MEC]
Description: The coil allows heating at the best possible efficiency which reduces the cycle time and the conducted heat along the brass tubes. ...
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Choosing the Correct Crank
From: J. W. Winco, Inc.Description: By definition, a crank is a device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft. Simple enough, but there are some variables. ...
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Ergonomic Design
From: J. W. Winco, Inc.Description: What if your customer has put "ergonomic" on the wish list for the machine you're designing? What qualities should you be seeking in the components? Here are a few suggestions based upon OSHA ...
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Industrial Colors and Powder Coating
From: J. W. Winco, Inc.Description: Designing machinery may not be the most artistic pursuit in the world, but sometimes the issue of color can be essential even in industrial design. For example, many of our products are offered in ...
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Sanitary Machine Design
From: J. W. Winco, Inc.Description: Are you designing machinery suitable for clean room applications? If a machine is to be used for food processing, medical use, or other sanitary applications, there are a lot of things to consider in ...
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Selecting Spring Loaded Devices
From: J. W. Winco, Inc.Description: When an engineer's objective is to align, hold, or latch different parts of equipment together, you need a spring loaded device. The options for these components are many and varied. ...
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Brazing a Bourdon Tube Assembly
Description: Induction is used to braze a thin copper oval tube to a brass fitting at 1400 º F and to cap the other end of the copper tube with a brass plate. ...
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Brazing a Bourdon Tube Assembly [MEC]
Description: Induction is used to braze a thin copper oval tube to a brass fitting at 1400 º F and to cap the other end of the copper tube with a brass plate. ...
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Annealing steel wire for a medical application
Description: Ambrell performed a free laboratory test and designed a process that enabled the client to bring their wire annealing process in-house in a cost efficient manner... ...
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Brazing an aluminum assembly (bicycle manufacturing)
Description: For this aluminum bicycle tube brazing application, induction heating delivers more repeatable and consistent results, while cutting client's heating time in half when compared to using a torch... ...
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Laser Marking vs. Chemical/Acid Etching
From: RMI Laser, LLCDescription: Laser Marking and Engraving is a widely expanding marketplace as users have seen the benefits of using lasers over conventional methods like Chemical/Acid Etching for direct part marking to simple ...
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Laser Marking vs. Dot Peen
From: RMI Laser, LLCDescription: Laser Marking and Engraving is a widely expanding marketplace as users have seen the benefits of using lasers over conventional methods like Chemical/Acid Etching for direct part marking to simple ...
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Laser Marking vs. Ink-Jet Printing
From: RMI Laser, LLCDescription: Laser Marking Systems are rapidly becoming the technology of choice for a vast majority of marking applications. Laser Markers provide the ability to mark without the need of any consumables like ink, ...