Algorithmic Business
In industry, where off-the-shelf solutions are a rarity, you need an algorithmic solution – simple, reliable, repeatable – that allows you to react quickly to that prospective customer’s needs…
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As budgets get tighter and you take on more responsibilities, Full Service Manufacturers are available to give you the help you need. A Full Service Manufacturer (FSM) has the personnel and expertise to help you control costs…
Non-Destructive Testing: What You See May Not Be What You Get
When you buy expensive metals, you might be getting something you don’t want and not know it. You could be buying defects that you would rather not have, and your supplier may not realize he sent you defective material. The only way to know for sure is to test he parts nondestructively…
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Compressed Air Energy Savings: Thermal Mass Flowmeters Find Wasted Cash
In this era of rising energy costs and global competitiveness, compressed air waste in facilities can be a major financial drain to the bottom line. Air may be free, but compressed air certainly isn’t. According to Cary Carlisle, an expert compressed air auditor and seasoned technician from Air Compressor Supply, Inc. (ACS), over a 10-year period, electricity costs make up 76 percent of a factory’s operating costs…
Leave Commodity Thinking to the Stock Market! The Value of Well-Chosen Packaging
A lot of people have a tendency to think of their packaging products as commodities. Sure, things like packaging peanuts, bubble, Polyethylene wrapping foam and corrugated cartons might sound like commodity products, but have you really looked at the purpose and value of your packaging requirements?
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Cost Justification and Reliability Benefits of Multi-Jackbolt Tensioners
Multi-Jackbolt Tensioners are bolt tightening devices that have been around for over a decade. Although the concept is relatively simple, these tensioners have many benefits that are not commonly known. They have proven to be economical in terms of cost and in terms of equipment reliability, which will be the focus of this paper…
The Top 10 Rubber Tubing Buying Errors . . . and Their Solutions
Have you ever ordered hundreds of feet of rubber tubing or hose and then discovered it wasn’t right for your application? Did you experience downtime while you waited for a replacement? Additional costs? The boss’s anger? A headache? The buying errors and their solution listed below were developed to help avoid this situation…
Trends and Opportunities in the U.S. Automotive Component Markets: Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM) and Aftermarket
The major emphasis of this review paper is on the trends of automotive components in the U.S. markets – OEM and aftermarket. However, since much of the business is now global, world-wide automotive component market trends are also discussed…
Cleaning Parts in the Remanufacturing Process
With demand for remanufactured parts on the rise, leaders in automotive, agricultural, and heavy equipment remanufacturing are looking for parts cleaning systems that can sustain intense parts cleaning while reducing time and labor for maintenance on the washer. To better understand how remanufacturers can keep their aqueous parts washers performing at top quality with ease of maintenance and less down time, one must consider the system design and key elements of parts cleaning in the remanufacturing environment…
Rapid Cooling of Aluminum Nitride Heaters
Single Iteration, a division of Watlow, has conducted preliminary concept generation and evaluation for several alternative solutions for providing rapid cooling of AlN based heaters. Cost/benefit analysis of the various alternatives indicated that forced air cooling would be preferred for many applications of the latest AlN heating technology…
How To Properly Maintain And Service Your Oxidizer
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 thorough maintenance plans…
10 Steps to Plastic Bags
Plastic bags, also called ‘poly bags,’ are one of those modern conveniences we take for granted. But 60 years ago, no one ever considered the question, ‘Paper or plastic?’ Back then, people also managed to get by without Ziploc® bags or dry cleaner bags. This was because the technology for creating polyethylene film didn’t emerge until the 1940s during World War II. And the methods to create plastic bags from polyethylene film weren’t developed until the 1950s. The most common way to produce poly bags is by blown film extrusion, also called the ‘tubular film process.’ In a moment, you’ll see how it got this name. Plastic bags are made from polyethylene. During processing, the polyethylene might be treated with any number of additives, such as…
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Lubrication: The Greener The Better
Manufacturing practices are becoming increasingly more scrutinized for their effect on the environment. Real changes are underway in the area of emissions, byproducts, packaging materials, fluid selection, and power consumption – to name only a few. While environmental payback may be the goal, many of these initiatives encounter obstacles, not the least of which is additional operational costs. Not so with lubrication – the greener the better. Utilizing very small amounts of lubricant at controlled intervals is productive for a number of reasons…
Art or Science? Dilute Phase Pneumatic Conveying vs. Flexible Screw Conveying
by David Boger, Sales Manager and Allen Powell, Regional Applications Engineer Flexicon Corporation The choice between dilute phase pneumatic conveying and flexible screw conveying is not always clear Everyone has rules of thumb when it comes to choosing a conveying
Why Use Extruded Aluminum?
by PSI Extrusions The aluminum extrusion process, which involves forcing hot aluminum through a precision die to create a length of constant cross-section, marries the inherent advantages of aluminum to the precision and high volume capacity of the extrusion process.
Investment Casting Soars Despite Misconceptions
Although one of the world’s oldest metal fabricating technologies, investment casting (sometimes known as ‘lost wax’ casting) has in recent years been subjected to a few misconceptions, ironically these fallacies have probably caused many who could have benefited most from this process to rule it out…
How to Write a Specification For and Evaluate a Design/Build Cleanroom Proposal
With the increasing emphasis on utilizing the design/build method of delivery in the construction industry, and the desire to evaluate proposals using that old adage of ‘apples to apples’, it becomes incumbent upon the owner to create a specification which will insure that contractors have the appropriate information to propose the facility accurately…
Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization & Web Marketing Baby Steps for Industrial Manufacturers
What industrial manufacturers have to do with online marketing, and how web marketing can boost sales even in a tough economy…
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Google, the king of the web business indexes, is constantly changing their algorithms to reflect changes in how SEO firms have done business. Do you have the time to keep up with those changes? We do! And we devote ourselves
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