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Wind Turbine Manufacturer Implements Clean Air Initiative
Description: When you think about generating electricity from wind, clean energy comes to mind. However, the wind turbine production process can be a major source of air pollution without the proper controls in ...
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Automation Applications In Bio-Pharmaceuticals
Description: The bio-pharmaceutical industry demands exacting detail in design, development, operation, quality, and just about every other aspect of the business. As such, there is a degree of specialty in most ...
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The Myth of Cutting Tool Cost
Description: Productivity in economics refers to a measure of output from production processes compared to a unit of input. In manufacturing, that unit of input refers to everything from toilet paper to your CEO's ...
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ARC Advisory Group - Improving Agility, Performance and Profitibility with MPC
Description: In a recent ARC Advisory Group survey widely distributed to companies worldwide, users most often cited Advanced Process Control (APC) technology as providing the greatest benefit among all advanced ...
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DoD and IUID Case Study: Microscan Helps Laser Devices Hit its Target for UID Marking (.pdf)
Description: Military and law enforcement personnel use aiming assistance products from Laser Devices to make their weapons more accurate. Laser Devices supplies the DoD with laser and infrared aiming devices and ...
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Tips To Help You Choose The Right Blender
Description: Solid-solid product formulations are mixed to meet a variety of objectives. These include blending of ingredients (such as in the preparation of animal feeds, fertilizer, glass batches, food products, ...
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Case Study:GEN2 T-A® Composite Automotive
Description: The customer supplies gears and gear assemblies to the automotive industry. The part being manufactured is a transmission gear carrier for the Hummer H3. The customer was drilling a 14 mm (.551?) bolt ...
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Reducing Damage and Loss in Conveying Delicate, Small-Footprint Products
From: Habasit AmericaDescription: Efficiencies inherent in conveyor belt systems are widely recognized in the food processing and related industries. But damage can occur when delicate, small footprint products are transferred between ...
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Using a Digital Potentiometer to Optimize a Precision Single Supply Photo Detect
Description: Photodiodes bridge the gap between light and electronics. Many times precision applications such as CT scanners, blood analyzers, smoke detectors, position sensors, IR pyrometers and chromatographs ...
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Basic PLL Filters for the rfPIC™ - rfHCS
Description: This application note will give designers a method to design their own Phase Lock Loop (PLL) filters for rfPIC transmitters, such as the rfPIC12C509 and the rfHCS362. First the circuit will be briefly ...
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Decoding an Infrared Remote Using a PIC16C5X Microcontroller
Description: For many years the consumer electronics industry has been employing infrared remote controls for the control of televisions, VCR?s, and cable boxes. This same tech-nology has recently started to ...
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Dynamic Interferometry Handles Vibration
Description: Mechanical vibration and turbulent airflow present significant problems for most interferometric test methods. Conditions on the factory floor and in industrial clean rooms with high-capacity air ...
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Dynamic Interferometry: Getting Rid of the Jitters
Description: Conditions on the factory floor and in industrial cleanrooms with high-capacity air filtration systems can hamper the use of interferometry. Another problem is the testing of large-aperture mirrors ...
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Instantaneous Phase-Shift, Point-Diffraction Interferometer
Description: Wavefront measurement is important in the manufacture of individual optical components and for the optimization of sub-assemblies in optical data storage. The trend towards short-wavelength, high ...
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Low Coherence Vibration Insensitive Fizeau Interferometer
Description: An on-axis, vibration insensitive, polarization Fizeau interferometer is realized through the use of a novel pixelated mask spatial carrier phase shifting technique in conjunction with a low coherence ...
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Pixelated Phase-Mask Dynamic Interferometer
Description: We demonstrate a new type of spatial phase-shifting, dynamic interferometer that can acquire phase-shifted interferograms in a single camera frame. The interferometer is constructed with a pixelated ...
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PIC16C57 Based Code Hopping Security System Application Note (pdf)
Description: This document describes a PIC16C57 based code hopping automotive security system. The security system implements all the basic features found on security systems and can be changed to modify or add ...
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A Quest for Clean Mixing
Description: Mixing is one of the most ubiquitous unit operations in the processing world. And often times, improvements specific to the mixing step lead to overall big rewards that translate well in the balance ...
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The Art of High Shear Mixing
Description: The high-shear rotor/stator mixer (HSM), once relegated to a relatively narrow niche of mixing applications, has become a mainstay in many applications in the chemical process industries (CPI). The ...
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Solder Reflow Recommendation
Description: Lead-free soldering techniques have been available for some years. However, they do not always meet the same physical criteria for attachments as alloys containing lead. In the past, the most common ...
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Improved Cooling Tower Maintenance: The Cool, Hard Facts
Description: Water & Wastewater International, November 2007 — Proper maintenance of cooling towers can be a dangerous, expensive and tedious undertaking. Here's some information on ways to make the process ...
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Understanding 2D Symbol Verification (.pdf)
Description: The purpose of Data Matrix symbol verification is to ensure reliability and consistency of symbols based on the strict criteria outlined in the ISO/IEC 15415, AS9132, and AIM DPM quality standards. ...
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Locating Pins and How They Are Used
From: MISUMI USADescription: Typically, the locating pins are used for controlled, fine tolerance positioning of a work piece. For example, a pallet that is moved along one axis, where the drive mechanism is not accurate and ...
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Alpenrose Dairy Case Study
From: Alar Engineering Corp.Description: Alpenrose Dairy goes beyond being a producer of high quality dairy products; it is a family fun center. There is Alpenrose Stadium, "Dairyville", the Quarter-Midget Racing Arena, an Outdoor Velodrome, ...
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DJ Environmental Case Study
From: Alar Engineering Corp.Description: What do restaurant grease trap waste and bat guano have in common? Jay Minear, owner of DJ Environmental, can handle both. By using a sophisticated system to pretreat and dewater grease trap waste and ...
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King Quarry Case Study (.pdf)
From: Alar Engineering Corp.Description: King Quarry - Northern Wisconsin's foremost producer and supplier of natural stone products, was established in 1958 and is located in the picturesque community of Sugar Camp, Wisconsin. King Quarry ...
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Quad City Brick Case Study (.pdf)
From: Alar Engineering Corp.Description: Quad City Brick & Stone, Bettendorf, IA processes Indiana Limestone, Wisconsin Limestone, Rustic and Cocoa to produce face brick, cut stone and retaining walls. To expand capabilities and increase ...
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Vacuum System Handles Fine Alum Sludge - Town of Tewksbury, MA (.pdf)
From: Alar Engineering Corp.Description: The Tewksbury Water Treatment Plant in northern Massachusetts is using a vacuum filtration/dewatering system to dewater up to 8,000 gpd of settled residuals produced during the clarification of 3mgd ...
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Water Management For Architectural Stone Shops by Park Inds.
From: Alar Engineering Corp.Description: Did you know that song of the larger volume stone shops will consume well over 200 gpm of water daily? That's a lot of water. So what do you do with 20,000 to 100,000 gallons or more of wastewater a ...
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Choosing a Woven Wire Screen for Top Separation Perfomance
Description: In any screening application, achieving top-quality product and peak efficiency requires careful screen selection. This article explains how to choose the right woven wire screen for your application. ...
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Screener Troubleshooting: Diagnosing and Solving Screen Problems
Description: Whether your screener scalps, removes fines, or grades material, the machine's failure can have costly consequences. A torn or otherwise compromised screen can force you to reprocess material, scrap ...
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Crossflow Scrubber and Air Filtration Pilot System
From: Kimre, Inc.Description: This design utilizes stage-wise scrubbing and filtering of gases and contaminants in a compact, easy to maintain package. Inherent in the design is the flexibility to collect a diverse range of ...
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Case Study: Complex Tool Setting at the Speed Motor Sport Demands
From: RenishawDescription: Renishaw's automatic tool setting and tool breakage detection systems recently installed at Hewland Engineering Ltd, are proving to be highly successful in raising productivity of transmission part ...
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Case Study: Air Bearing Production Given a Lift
From: RenishawDescription: The rise in the popularity of air bearing spindles for new applications owes much to the ability of modern machine tools to provide extremely tight dimensional tolerances and fine surface finishes. ...
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Case Study (Aerospace): Renishaw Systems Crucial to Manufacturing at Martin-Baker
From: RenishawDescription: Martin-Baker, the world's leading supplier of aircraft ejection seats, rely on Renishaw's QC10 ballbar and machine tool probe systems to manufacture complex, high-quality components. Martin-Baker ...
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Case Study: Flying Success with Dunlop Aerospace Braking Systems
From: RenishawDescription: Dunlop Aerospace Braking Systems, a part of Meggitt plc, is a global organisation that designs, develops and manufactures wheels and brakes for commercial and military aircraft applications. Aircraft ...
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Autombile Industry: Driving Hard for Quality and Cost Reduction - Case Study
From: RenishawDescription: With negative headlines often surrounding the British car industry, it is easy to forget that major manufacturers continue to operate world-class volume vehicle production facilities in the UK. The ...
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Color Contrast and Luminescence Sensors
From: EMX Industries, Inc.Description: As the demand for products in the world-market continues to push production, the requirements for high-speed automated processes capable of providing these products and components at lower cost and ...
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A Guide to Understanding and Mixing Thickeners
Description: Rheology modifiers, commonly referred to as thickeners or viscosifiers, are everpresent in most products. The use of these additives cut across several process industries including food, ...
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Dry Blender Selection Criteria - Vertical & Horizontal Designs
Description: In processing plants around the world, ribbon blenders are used to mix many thousands of products, from fertilizers and plastic resins to flavored coffees and cosmetics. The ribbon blender is one of ...
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How to Specify the Right Multi-Agitator Mixer for Your Application
Description: As competition in virtually all industries intensifies and becomes more global, all manufacturers Are trying to do more with less in order to remain competitive. On the process line, that means ...
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Ultra High Shear Mixing Technology
Description: Since most industrial processes don't take place in a beaker, we must always consider the real world behavior of high-shear batch mixers in large vessels. Thinking on a molecular level, we ask, "How ...
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ABCs of DRO Manual
Description: ACU-RITE readouts are application-specific systems for the manual machine tool industry. The primary benefit is saving time and increased productivity. The addition of a readout system on any machine ...
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Product Monitor Saves Thousands of Liters of Beer
Description: Delays in determining water to beer transition are costly to breweries. A number of methods exist for product transition monitoring, but an optical system is the quickest and easiest to use. For a ...
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How to Properly Maintain and Service Your Oxidizer
Description: Your air pollution control system represents a significant investment in not only initial capital but also ongoing maintenance and operation. Routine inspections performed by your staff combined with ...
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Soldering Techniques When Soldering to CT (Matte Tin) Finish
From: Barry Industries, Inc.Description: Barry Industries products with a "CT" metallization scheme are widely used in customer applications that require solder mounting. This application note addresses the requirements for soldering to ...
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When to Use a Hot Water Pressure Washer or a Cold Water Pressure Washer
From: Hotsy Cleaning SystemsDescription: Because both hot and cold water pressure washers have models with the same flow rate, the same pressure and the same capability of cleaning indoors or outdoors, it begs the question: how do I choose ...
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Fiber Abrasive Deburring Improves Quality and Productivity for Manufacturer of Medical Plastics Products (.pdf)
From: Abtex CorporationDescription: Fiber abrasive brushes are typically used to deburr extrusions and castings made from aluminum and other metals. Now these alternatives to wire and other highly abrasive brushes are being used to ...
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Fiber Abrasive Finishing Systems for End-Deburring Extruded Aluminum Profiles
From: Abtex CorporationDescription: The expanding use of aluminum extruded shapes is placing higher quality demands on extruders and fabricators. Electronics related applications such as heat dissipation components (heat sinks) require ...
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Oxidizer Energy Recovery Options
Description: The mainstream media today is full of allusions to energy awareness and conservation. Just as visible these days are media references to astronomical dollar figures that can boggle the mind. This ...
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Ampere*turn Versus mT And Gauss
From: HamlinDescription: What is the relationship between AT (Ampere*turn) and Tesla or Gauss? What magnet strength will activate a 15 AT reed switch at 5 mm? There is not an answer that is both simple and accurate. Because ...
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How To: Control Process Mist Eliminators
From: Kimre, Inc.Description: A structured-media mist eliminator is less prone to plugging than conventional knitted-mesh mist eliminators, achieves higher removal efficiencies per unit of pressure drop, and has lower energy ...
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Crest Foods Chooses Sweco To Create World Class Facility
Description: Crest Foods Company Incorporated, located 90 miles west of Chicago in Ashton, IL is an independent food manufacturing company established in 1946. Crest Foods has three business divisions: Contract ...
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Differential Pressure Transmitters in Filtration Applications
Description: Differential pressure measurement is the difference in pressure between two points in a system. For filtration applications, the upstream side [A] is positioned before the filter [B], whereas the ...
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Optimizing Low Profile Vibratory Screen Separator Performance
Description: Low profile separators help material processors meet the demanding expectations of today's marketplace. Quality of packaged materials must be unquestionable with the demands of society today. The ...
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Optimizing Vibratory Screen Seperator Performance (.pdf)
Description: This article will demystify the set-up and operation of a round vibratory screen separator. The effect of the input control parameters: top weight force, bottom weight force and lead angle are defined ...
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Vibratory Screen Cleaning Methods Improve Screening Efficiencies and Save Money
Description: Screen blinding occurs when the screen mesh openings are blocked or closed by the material which is being screened. Near size particles become trapped or build up on the wires effectively blocking the ...
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Water Jet Cutting Machine - Tough Environment
Description: A building products manufacturer that produces fiber-cement plank siding for homes needed an actuated system that would hold up in a harsh environment where cement dust covers everything in the plant. ...
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5-Axis Machining: Getting a Grip on the Accuracy of Rotary Axes (.pdf)
Description: Every year's new machine tools have been showing improvements in efficiency and power. Increasing feed rates and acceleration value have steadily reduced machining times. At the same time, increasing ...
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How PTFE Can Compete With The Best In Thermosets
From: TaconicDescription: With PTFE's low loss and stable Dk characteristics, its use as RF Microwave printed-circuit board (PCB) substrate is well-established. The growth in wireless-technology has by extension, driven the RF ...
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Managing State Data in Automotive Safety Systems
Description: Today's electronic systems are managing an increased amount of state data. Programmable features, once considered high end add-ons, are now becoming the norm, especially in automobiles; one of the ...
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Nanometer Precise Hybrid Actuator in Positioning Mechanism with Long Travel Range
Description: Nanotechnology requires extreme high resolution and accuracy and at the same time long travel range. Improvement in accuracy can be achieved with mechatronic design principals and integration of piezo ...
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The Anisotropy of Dielectric Constant in TLY-5A Material
From: TaconicDescription: Anisotropy is often regarded as a drawback for woven fiberglass composite laminates. The data presented in this study are in contrast to this argument. Here TLY-5A with woven fiberglass exhibits ...
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Case History: The Sweet Smell of Acrison
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: For many years, the problem of odour control has plagued the sewage treatment industry, but speciality chemical distributor Univar is pioneering a use for potassium permanganate to eliminate these ...
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Reference Guide: Acrison's Guide for Evaluating Dry Solids Feeding Equipment
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: When evaluating a dry solids feeder manufacturer, with the intent to purchase equipment, there are a number of factors that should be taken into consideration before making a decision. The following ...
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Reference Guide: Basic Troubleshooting Guide
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Acrison manufactures a number of different model dry solids metering mechanisms which, in their basic configuration, are identified as volumetric feeders. However, many of these model feeders (or ...
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Reference Guide: Glossary of Terms
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: AC Motor - AC Motors may be operated at a constant speed, without variable speed control, or may be furnished with a variable frequency controller for variable speed control. Variable speed AC Motors ...
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Reference Guide: Typical Products Metered
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: The following selections encompass a very small segment of the many thousands of products and materials successfully metered by Acrison's various model volumetric and gravimetric dry materials ...
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Electropolishing Improves Lead Screw Surface Quality
From: Noll, Inc.Description: An electrochemical process which polishes a metal surface by removing a microscopic amount of material from the work piece. This process prepares metals for plating, anodizing or conversion coating ...
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Passivate Lead Screws for Extended Service Life
From: Noll, Inc.Description: Maximize corrosion resistance and reduce leadscrew surface impurities remaining from processing. Remove surface contaminations, such as iron particles left by cutting tools, that can form rust or act ...
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Plating Enhances Resistance to Lead Screw Corrosion
From: Noll, Inc.Description: Plating is the general name of surface-covering techniques in which a metal is deposited onto a conductive surface. Plating is indispensable as a corrosion inhibitor. for the manufacture of computers, ...
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Teflon Coating Reduces Lead Screw Friction
From: Noll, Inc.Description: PTFE was discovered serendipitously by Roy Plunkett of DuPont in 1938, while attempting to make a new CFC refrigerant, when the perfluorethylene polymerized in its storage container. DuPont patented ...
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Measuring Linear and Non-Linear AC Waveforms with CurrentWatch (.pdf)
Description: Variable frequency drives (VFDs) improve control and conserve energy by regulating motor speed. The most common types are PWM (pulse width modulation) and Six Step. Both technologies are based on high ...
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Monitoring Low Current with CurrentWatch (.pdf)
Description: CurrentWatch™ current switches and sensors are designed to fulfill the sensing requirements of as many applications as possible, while keeping the number of stocked sensors to a minimum. This is ...
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Power Supply Options for CurrentWatch (.pdf)
Description: CurrentWatch sensors and switch models are available in three power supply options, termed self-powered, loop-powered and auxiliary-powered. Understanding how to wire and install each type will help ...
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Electrical Safety
From: Seaward Group USADescription: The US Labor Department statistics indicate that an average of more than 4,000 non-disabling and more than 3,000 disabling electrical contact work-related injuries are recorded annually in the United ...
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Electrical Safety Testing
From: Seaward Group USADescription: Electricity powers the wheels of industry and commerce, but the dangers associated with the use of faulty electrical tools, appliances and equipment in the workplace can be costly in both human and ...
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Ground Fault Protection
From: Seaward Group USADescription: In the rugged construction site environment, flexible cords supplying portable tools and appliances, cord connectors, receptacles and cord and plug connections can all be subject to hazards which can ...
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Ground Fault Protection
From: Seaward Group USADescription: In the rugged construction site environment, flexible cords supplying portable tools and appliances, cord connectors, receptacles and cord and plug connections can all be subject to hazards which can ...
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Production Line Testing
From: Seaward Group USADescription: With the Low Voltage Directive requiring that manufacturers of electrical and electronic products only place on the market equipment that does not create a danger to people, domestic animals and ...
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Complete Safety for Machine Operation
From: elobau U.S., Inc.Description: It makes a major contribution to machine safety and- thanks to the CAN open field bus system- reduces considerably the need for cabling. It's the eloSafe Machine Safety System from elobau GmbH which ...
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News Machine Safety
From: elobau U.S., Inc.Description: At present a great deal of uncertainty is coming up about the new machine safety standards - the ISO 13849-1, IEC 62061 and the IEC 61508 for machines and plants. Nobody knows which standard will ...
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RoHS Legislation & Technical Manual
Description: The Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive restricts six substances: Lead - (Pb). Mercury - (Hg), Hexavalent chromium - (Cr(VI)), Cadmium - (Cd), Polybrominated ...
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Agilent: Automotive Electronic Functional Test Using Agilent System Components
Description: There are many types of electronic modules in automobiles today and new ones are springing up rapidly. In many cases, low frequency modules (i.e., ones without RF capabilities) can all be tested using ...
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Agilent: Spectrum Analysis Basics
Description: This application note is intended to explain the fundamentals of swept-tuned, superheterodyne spectrum analyzers and discuss the latest advances in spectrum analyzer capabilities. At the most basic ...
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Fluke: Particle Monitoring Program During Construction at an Outpatient Cancer Care Clinic
Description: hough it's hardly rare, new construction at a major health care facility is anything but 'business as usual.' A building project can disrupt normal safeguards, create stress and open pathways for ...
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Application of Ultrasonic Peening for Fatigue Life Improvement of Automotive Welded Wheels
Description: The efficiency of Ultrasonic Peening (UP) application for fatigue life improvement of automotive welded wheels was studied based on the results of fatigue testing of real wheels in as-welded condition ...
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Fatigue Life Improvement of Tubular Welded Joints by Ultrasonic Peening .(pdf)
Description: The development of the Ultrasonic Peening (UP) technology was a logical continuation of the work done before and directed at the investigation and further development of known techniques for surface ...
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Fatigue Life Improvement of Welded Elements by Ultrasonic Peening
Description: The development of the Ultrasonic Peening (UP) technology was a logical continuation of the work done before directed on the investigation and further development of known techniques for surface ...
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Rehabilitation and Repair of Welded Elements and Structures by Ultrasonic Peening
Description: The Ultrasonic Peening (UP) is the most efficient technique for increasing the fatigue life of welded elements as compared to such existing improvement treatments as grinding, TIG-dressing, shot ...
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Brick Manufacturer Case Study
Description: Brick and Tile Corporation of Lawrenceville located in Lawrenceville, Virginia is a manufacturer of bricks for building both residential and commercial structures. Due to high demand of their ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Chemical Industry
Description: Carbon black, titanium dioxide, metal powders, fly ash, and fumed silica are just a few examples of materials we've learned to handle well over the last 40 years. ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Food Industry
Description: Our line of streamout feeders can spread seasonings and other ingredients across conveyors ranging in width from 8 inches to more than 60 inches. In the production of pasta, tortillas, breads, snack ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Pet Food Industry
Description: Ingredient-wise, pet food recipes are using more enrichments, flavorings, colors and fillers, added at higher accuracies than ever before. It's why our MECHATRON® screw feeders, DEA weighbelt ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Description: Sanitary-grade equipment produced from certified materials that can precisely meter ingredients at rates ranging from 5 grams per minute to tons per hour and thereafter, cleaned-in-place. Those ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Plastics Industry
Description: For over 40 years, Schenck AccuRate has worked closely with both large and small plastics compounders providing superior feeding systems for resins and additives. From feeding colors to wood flour, ...
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Technology Developments in Bulk Bag Discharging
Description: As the use of FIBCs (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers) or bulk bags in the transportation and processing of bulk materials continues to grow, so does the research and study of how to improve ...
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Controlling Chromium Fumes
Description: Knowing how to calculate the amount of weld fumes and, in turn, how to capture those fumes and provide clean air in the working environment has become especially important in light of the Occupational ...
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Overview of Emission Control Technologies
Description: The objective of this section is to present various VOC thermal oxidation technologies, their strength and weaknesses and the elements required to determine what is the preferred technology for a ...
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The Carburetor Example - Intelligent Burner Controls?
Description: If the auto industry has embraced electronic engine management, why can't the industrial heating industry advance to intelligent burner controls? ...