Manufacturing and Process Equipment Reference Materials

Description: Enclosure heaters and cabinets protect heating systems and equipment. Ordinary enclosures offer suitable protection from physical damage and elemental damage such as condensation. Hazardous area ...

Description: One of the main components of an industrial heater is the heating element. The heater element transfers the heat to the target medium either through direct contact or from inside a protective sheath. ...

Description: Ice, glass, and iron are revolutionizing the way scientists think about the long-standing problem of energy storage. This is the story of flow batteries, newly emerging as a prominent stand-alone ...

Description: Food processing is one of the most essential yet delicate industries globally. For the health, safety, and wellbeing of the masses, food processing needs to be meticulous. With that said, many ...

Description: Industrial heaters play a vital role in the maintenance of various industry-specific procedures. Whether it’s basic heating of water or processing oils, the right industrial heater can spell the ...

Description: The fuel oil handling system plays a critical role in the storage and transportation of fuel oils. Including other functions like bunkering, loading/unloading, and transfer. Heavy fuels like heavy ...

Description: Having a greenhouse boiler system that runs well and heats the greenhouse to an appropriate temperature is critical to a smooth operation. If you are trying to manage a greenhouse, understanding how a ...

Description: Composed of fluoride, chloride, and nitrate salts, Molten Salts have gained momentum due to their advantages and applications. They’re a preferred medium for heat transfer application, ...

Description: Thermal fluid heating is an integral component of many industrial applications worldwide. These systems have mostly replaced boilers thanks to the flexibility and control thermal heating offers. With ...

Description: Over the side heaters (OTS heaters) have many advantages, especially when providing heat to vessels located in cramped spaces. But they’re also advantageous for heating certain types of fluids. ...

Description: Choosing the right duct heater requires a deep understanding of one’s industry, the heating requirements of certain operations, and the heater’s capabilities. Selecting the right one can ...

Description: Caustic solution products such as soap and candles may seem insignificant, but they undergo a delicate and thorough process to meet industry standards. Sufficient heating is a significant component of ...

Description: All heating processes benefit from precision temperature control. This is true for both commercial and industrial applications. Due to its sheer volume, however, precision makes its biggest impact in ...

Description: Industrial energy efficiency is often treated as an afterthought. Production quotas, lowering manufacturing costs, and profit margins usually take precedence. However, energy usage can add to your ...

Description: Cost-effective and efficient, process steam has excellent heat transfer capabilities with low toxicity. As a result, steam is widely used in industrial processes, manufacturing, and heating. The use ...

Description: Clean water is that which is safe for human use and/or consumption. Of course, this is important for the food and beverage industry and domestic use, such as clean drinking water. It is also a ...

Description: Energy storage is a hot topic of discussion in the utilities sector and alternative energy generation because it is crucial to support grid electrical supply, transmission, and distribution systems. ...

Description: The “magic” behind immersion heaters lies in their metals. In other words, their ability to keep various fluids and substances warm depends on the metals they’re made out of. This ...

Description: Ranking high amongst alternative energy sources, Natural gas is the cleanest burning hydrocarbon. It is transported in its gaseous state through pipelines to far-flung communities as a fuel source for ...

Description: Online heaters use indirect heating to maintain flow, regulate, and control the temperature of the heated medium. They are commonly used in steam generation and preheating, as well as processing ...

Description: Pressure vessels help keep liquids, gases, and vapors at their required pressure settings (for the applications they’re needed for). Of course, pressure vessels come in different forms, and ...

Description: Steam is used in various process heating applications, both for home and commercial situations. Yet, circulation heaters for processing steam are primarily found in the industrial heating industry. A ...

Description: Steam pressure systems are the standard heating system for various applications. They’re widely used because of their reliability and durability and because they generate clean, dirt-free heat. ...

Description: In an industrial setting, oil viscosity directly impacts its quality and the ease at which you can extract it. Among various factors, temperature often determines the viscosity of the oil. That is a ...

Description: Both inline water heaters and immersion water heaters provide core functions in industrial processes. They provide everything from steam generation in power plants to sanitizing pharmaceutical ...

Description: The thermal energy transfer capabilities of steam make it an ideal solution for all sorts of process heating applications. We use them in everything from sanitization in the labs that created the ...

Description: Construction sites are found in all climates for all types of industries and have endless potential for possible applications. To match this versatility and usability, the best construction heaters ...

Description: Electric immersion heaters provide a vital source of heating in industrial applications by quickly raising the temperature of the heating medium. Their robust, compact, and uncomplicated design makes ...

Description: Tankless water heaters (a.k.a, inline heaters) are unique in their construction and mechanisms of action. They are a noteworthy alternative to heating for specific industrial applications and might be ...

Description: Impedance heating is a clever approach to pipe heating. The pipe itself becomes the heater element rather than installing a heater into the pipe. The heating method achieves this by applying low ...

Description: Many standard products and processes require chemicals to be heated at specific temperatures. Of course, that necessitates using heaters that can produce such temperatures. This post will examine ...

Description: Mining is an inherently high-risk industry. In addition to the extraction of certain elements, the mines’ environments can put workers at risk of injury or illness. Explosive gases and compounds ...

Description: Molten salts, which are also known as salt melts, play an important role as a heat transfer medium in industry. Although water and oil are more common heat transfer fluids, there are many reasons ...

Description: Watt density refers to the measure of power from a heating element divided by the heated surface area of the element itself. Of course, that’s just the surface (excuse the pun) of this concept. ...

Description: Heating elements are the essential components that give heaters their function. Without them, a heater can’t heat anything. But not all heating elements are made equal; different types of ...

Description: As its name suggests, the purpose of a temperature control panel is to regulate the temperature of a target substance in a vessel, so it remains at its optimal temperature. However, knowing what makes ...

Description: Robotic palletizing is a helpful hand manufacturing application for many enterprises. However, there are still a lot of bottlenecks and challenges of automation in the packaging production lines. ...

Description: First things first, converting a manual screwdriving solution into an automated screwdriving operation isn't as easy as you may think. ...

Description: The demand for electrical power globally has never been greater and continues to rise. First, there is a demand to help reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Second, there is a demand for ...

Description: SPANK designs, develops and manufactures a complete series of unique and exclusive components in their factory. Before adopting 3D printing technology, it was very difficult to discuss at an early ...

Description: Thanks to Brainboxes Ethernet to Serial Devices, medical professionals no longer have to manually enter data from medical equipment onto paper-based flip charts to monitor patient data. A serial data ...

Description: Industrial safety tips save lives. ...

Description: "...In university labs across the world, material scientists, computer programmers and fabric designers are working to advance robotic clothing at a rapid pace." ...

Description: How 3D Printers from Raise3D Improved Manufacturing ...

Description: Customized prosthetics require unique and precision fitting parts that traditionally require lengthy and expensive iterations. These types of prosthetics have been unattainable to most of its intended ...

Description: The reduction of environmentally harmful emissions, especially the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2), is a central concern of climate policy. Energy from solar, wind, and hydropower, among others, ...

Description: Through the multiple diversity of application robots, sorting robots are paving their way to groundbreaking transformation. Sorting robots are widely used to automate highly-repetitive and boring ...

Description: Kason fluid bed dryers, coolers, and moisturizers employ an innovative circular processing unit which is inherently stronger, lighter, and less costly to build—and finish to sanitary ...

Description: Application Notes for Implementing Equipment and Processing Systems involving Vibratory Screeners, Centrifugal Sifters, Static Sieves, and Fluid Bed Dryers/Coolers/Moist urizers ...

Description: Kason VIBROSCREEN circular vibratory screeners (also called separators and sieves) separate bulk solid materials from solids and solids-laden slurries using multi-pane, inertial vibration that causes ...

Description: Industrial 3D printing technology has matured rapidly in many specific aspects, crossing the key thresholds of print quality, reliability, and cost structure. The latest advances in machinery, ...

Description: Hydrogen technology plays a key role on the way to the desired climate neutrality. Hydrogen is considered the energy carrier of the future and is an important building block for the decarbonization of ...

Description: ARA UPPER ENGADINE (SWITZERLAND): MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY IN AERATION THANKS TO AERZEN ROTARY LOBE COMPRESSORS ...

Description: What is a shield gas and what effect might the choice of shield gas have on the weld? ...

Description: Achieving Greater Efficiency, Consistency, Repeatability and Sustainability in Chemical Mixing ...

Description: With today’s increased push for reduced CO2 emissions, including potential financial incentives, manufacturers are looking for ways to decrease generation of said emissions. One significant ...

Description: SCUBA diving has changed dramatically since the early days whenoctopus resized 600 the breathing air was pumped to divers from the surface. The freedom to move without being tethered to an air line ...

Description: What is "Zero Air" and why would you ever use it? ...

Description: Here's how the invention of necrobotics happened. ...

Description: Most people, when they hear the word Ozone, immediately think of air pollution and global warming. This is just a small part of the story. Ozone also has many useful applications. ...

Description: Reduce oxygen or hypoxia training is conducted in a number of different ways. ...

Description: In the digital era, semiconductor chips are present in almost every aspect of our lives. Whether it is from microwave ovens to computers, cell phones, computer central processing units, and other ...

Description: Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are becoming a far more significant proposition for firms looking to improve the integration and automation of their operations. However, ...

Description: We will talk about driving trends in the semiconductor industry and its opportunities for the future on a way to semiconductor automation with robot. ...

Description: With the release of MXU 5.10 software, the OmniScan™ X3 64 flaw detector gains a new advanced ultrasonic inspection technique: phase coherence imaging (PCI). As soon as your OmniScan X3 64 unit ...

Description: The introduction of phase coherence imaging (PCI) in the OmniScan™ X3 64 flaw detector has vastly improved the visualization and characterization capabilities for some of most ...

Description: In order to exhaust acidic corrosive gases, come from all of the manufacturing lines at once, it was required to handle a huge air volume of 120,000 CFM acid gas, and it was decided, as a replacement ...

Description: The customer decided to install the TEXEL FTB1001Z, which satisfies the stringent requirements of high static pressure, large capacity, and corrosion resistance, to the dust collector. In addition, ...

Description: Biovation Labs produces nutraceutical and vitamin supplements for the Nugenix® brand, the top seller at GNC, along with other product lines. As Biovation grows and pursues manufacturing excellence ...

Description: A leading North American nutraceutical company uses two different configurations of a Marion mixer and a Kason sifter: one for powders and one for tablets. ...

Description: Sifting the ingredients is a necessary part of producing a quality mixture. Dolan says more than a dozen centrifugal sifters have been doing that job for many years. However, the increased incidence ...

Description: There are many ways to monitor and control energy use, improve efficiency and help to save money and the environment. ...

Description: A rectangular sifter pre-screens the bulk ingredients, which gravity discharge into the mixer. When the customer’s process dictates it, liquid is added and the mixture is blended until uniform. ...

Description: Over the last decade, we have seen cobots moving beyond the low-hanging fruit of machine tending and material handling. Cobots nowadays are built to work safely with humans becoming increasingly ...

Description: As integrated circuit has become a strategic industry, many semiconductor materials have been researched and developed, and AlN is undoubtedly one of the most promising semiconductor materials. ...

Description: With constantly changing environmental conditions, farmers are kept on their toes, adapting to every situation ...

Description: MarShield manufactures the highest quality Standard or Custom Designed Lead Lined Cabinets suitable for Nuclear Medicine or Radiochemistry laboratories. We work with industry professionals and ...

Description: During the operation of the placement machine, the electronic components are sucked and discharged through the suction nozzle. The high-speed placement machine absorbs and discharges electronic ...

Description: On the positive side, modern manufacturing paves the way for technological breakthroughs and diverse opportunities to increase production efficiency. Automation is the key to success in meeting ...

Description: Today's rechargeable batteries, led by lithium-ion chemistry, are in many ways proven, and yet so challenging at the same time. ...

Description: Robots usually need to see what they're doing. But robots don't typically see like a human does. The human eye is one of the most sophisticated sensors ever created. Robots do not need nearly as much ...

Description: What are the ways to reduce labor costs and improve manufacturing? According to the report by Accenture, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies have experienced disruptions in the supply chain from COVID-19. ...

Description: Picking the right industrial tools manufacturer for your business is an important decision, but these considerations will help you narrow down your options. ...

Description: Praxair Surface Technologies develops innovative laser processing technologies specifically geared for the tough demands and harsh environments of the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. ...

Description: The TIA Portal from Siemens provides several advantages when compared to other platforms, making it the perfect solution for Totally Integrated Automation! ...

Description: The DOBOT CR10 robot arm creates extra benefits while automating a CNC machine. The deployment of the CR10 robot arm ensures a high return on investment, saving labor costs, as one cobot allows to ...

Description: Providing a clean air environment for cultures during incubation is critical to preventing contamination. Some manufacturers equip their incubators with a HEPA filter and claim to provide ISO Class 5 ...

Description: Bendt Distilling Company, a maker of handcrafted whiskeys, uses a centrifugal sifter to turn spent grain byproduct into saleable livestock feed, while recovering the liquid sour mash, a valuable ...

Description: DOBOT is happy to announce that the DOBOT CR5 collaborative robot was awarded the outstanding MTBF certificate. We at DOBOT provide high-quality products to our robotic community. The MTBF certificate ...

Description: Consumers seeking healthier snack options or better-for-you plant-based proteins have been steadily increasing the demand for nuts for decades. ...

Description: To rework off-spec chocolate bars, one European producer separates the chocolate from nuts and other solid ingredients using heat and two VIBROSCREEN model K30-1-SS 30" Diameter Circular Vibratory ...

Description: Room oxygen monitor detects oxygen deficiency in refrigerators and freezers down to -50°C. Gaslab's RAD-0002-ZR is a fixed, wall-mount low oxygen safety monitor and alarm using a sensor capable of ...

Description: While the cannabis industry continues its rapid growth (with global sales expected to reach $33.6 billion during the next three years), the fact remains that raw cannabis is inherently difficult to ...

Description: Prior to installation of the TEXEL TRS scrubber, the customer had been using a baghouse collection system with filters to capture the particulate from manufacturing process. When using this method, ...

Description: We, at DOBOT, spoke with Nittin about his experience of using our products to develop manufacturing. Recently, he purchased MG400, and we value his honest customer feedback. Nittin shared with us his ...

Description: What components make up an "Integrated Display"? ...

Description: Battery charge range historically challenged consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). But innovative EV designers have found creative ways to make drastic battery charge range improvements and ...

Description: Learn how Boyd ruggedizes display modules and improves durability. ...

Description: Why Enhance Display Visibility and User Experience? ...

Description: Why Use a Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) for Data Center Cooling? ...