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Safety is the prime purpose of all work access lifts. They are designed to move production personnel, their tools and materials to ergonomically sound work positions to enhance both worker safety and efficiency. Production tasks are broadly varied and... more »
Based in France, Noyon Logistics Solutions takes pride in its ability to help customers save time and money while expanding organizational capabilities. As a company that understands these values, Noyon continuously seeks opportunities to reduce costs,... more »
Combat transportation vehicles are safer for the troops who depend on them, thanks to a successful flow measurement application developed by AW-Lake Company for a U.S. military supplier of the vehicles. The California manufacturing client was troubleshooting... more »
The longer a successful manufacturer, distributor, or service installer remains in business, the more legacy equipment and parts they must inventory to service existing customers. But over time, as new products and parts get added, warehouse space can... more »
A manufacturer of high technology filling equipment has reduced filling times, improved accuracy and repeatability, and enabled tighter filling tolerances for its filling machines by using the latest Micro Motion® Model FMT filling mass transmitter... more »
CAS DataLoggers recently provided the pressure and temperature data logging solution to a manufacturer using a chemical fume hood to protect workers by containing vapors, dusts, gases, and fumes, and then expelling them as air flowed into the hood from... more »
Peeling, cracked, and missing labeling of their most critical instruments is an ongoing problem for hospitals and other medical facilities. Permanent identification of medical instruments such as endoscopes and forceps is difficult due to sterilization... more »
As business has expanded at Prime Package & Label, every square foot of floor space in their printing facilities has become valuable real estate. Begun as a family-owned printing company in 1994, the firm has become a major nationwide provider for... more »
The approaching 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions will bring with them their own challenges in streamlining the staging of the massive events. Historically, this has never been a small task – something well known to Chicago Scenic Studios,... more »
The most successful team in Funny Car drag racing history, John Force Racing, Inc., has selected a Mach 4 waterjet with Dynamic Waterjet® XD from Flow Int’l for their latest machine tool. Precision parts have been a critical component of this team’s... more »
In simplest terms, vibration in motorized equipment is merely the back and forth movement or oscillation of machines and components, such as drive motors, driven devices (pumps, compressors, and so on) and the bearings, shafts, gears, belts, and other... more »
When it comes to keeping your facility clean, there’s more at stake than general tidiness. An effective cleanup approach for routine leaks, drips, and spills can greatly affect employee safety, regulatory compliance, and your bottom line, depending on... more »
Resistance to corrosion and chemicals is critical on military vehicles, so Chemical Agent Resistant Coatings (CARC) are required. This combination of pretreatments, primers, and topcoats is used on combat, combat support, and combat service support equipment.... more »
The term precision can often be used to describe robotic processing, for all the obvious reasons. Robotic processing is repetitive, exact, accurate in a nutshell it’s precise. And all of its supporting functions and equipment need to have that same... more »
The Lennox Industrial facility in Stuttgart, AR manufactures industrial air conditioners. Stamping presses which form sheet metal into cooling coils, brackets, housings, end plates, and other internal and external components maintain very tight tolerances... more »
When a piece of equipment needs slow input speed and high torque, it is common to use an electric motor coupled to an industrial gear reducer to provide the desired speed and torque. The gear reducer multiplies the output torque coming from the motor... more »
A California nuclear power plant had some critical requirements for a crane used to replace fuel rods in its combustion engineering reactors. Rated at 1,100 Mwe, the reactors supply electricity for 1.4 million homes. The modular design of the crane, from... more »
Cited by Fortune magazine as one of the top 100 places to work in America, Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is passionate about the wellbeing of children, families, doctors, and staff. When the hospital switched from traditional centrifugal electrical... more »
The phrase in the above title is actually incorrect in its sequence of wording. All pH readings are supposed to be taken and accepted only when the pH sensor is clean. After all, a contaminated pH sensor may yield an incorrect reading. So one must make... more »
The conventional method for dismantling or repairing petroleum storage tanks is to cut them apart with oxyacetylene torches and handheld gouges. Sound a little hazardous and time consuming? Mass Technology Corp. thought so too. Convinced that there had... more »