Using vacuum to handle products such as paper sheets, small
packages, and small food products is straightforward enough.
However, vacuum is often used in the pick-up and transfer of
heavy products such as marble slabs, sheet metal for automotive
manufacturing, concrete formed products, wooden door
panels, and other large items.
These types of applications require a safety consideration. The
worst thing that could happen when lifting something heavy is
to drop it. Obvious enough, but rarely is this event accommodated
for in vacuum lifting systems.
Bearings fall into two main categories – naked or mounted.
While both types require similar thought processes for proper
selection, installation and maintenance, there are enough
differences that it’s best to approach them separately.
A belt conveyor is essentially a giant rubber band, stretched tight and threaded through a maze of obstructions and pinch points. This band is then burdened with a heavy load and then pulled at high speed. The forces applied are significant and potentially dangerous. These forces create risks to personnel who are working on or in the vicinity of belt conveyors. Part of the problem is that conveyors have become “part of the landscape.” They are not seen as a hazard, but rather a fact of life, like driving a car or using a phone. The average employee does not see the risks inherent in the conveyor, because they have not been trained to see (and avoid) the risks.
In the linked white-paper, Martin Engineering’s Larry Goldbeck looks at the safety record of conveyors and discusses the proper training to improve this record. He will review the general topics to be included in conveyor training and discuss the site-specific analysis required. He will show how this training can provide a double benefit by improving worker safety while boosting an operation’s overall efficiency.
In recent years, manufacturing plants have recognized the importance of improving compressed air system efficiencies. Two key points for plant engineers and energy conservation champions to focus on are to eliminate leaks and to reduce air compressor operating pressure to the lowest set-point possible.
Leaks and pressure drops can occur anywhere, both on the supply side and demand side. These two wasteful energy consumers are typically most prevalent within the final 30 ft between the main distribution headers and the operating equipment, commonly referred to as the “Dirty 30.” This includes pipe runs and associated items such as valves, pressure regulators, filters, lubricators, quick disconnects, hoses, and flexible connections.
Contact Binkelmman Corporation Fluid Power Product Specialist, Mike Thomas, mike.thomas@binkelman.local or 419.537.9333 to schedule an appointment to discuss air loss and to conduct a survey at your facility.
The simatherm IH 025 VOLCANO marks the start of a new
era in the field of portable induction heaters. The patented technology
enables outstanding heating performance from an extremely
light structure. You can use it to heat roller bearings with an
inner diameter as small as 20 mm (0.79 in) up to on outer diameter
of 160 mm (6.30 in) and a weight of up to 10 kg (22 lbs).
To do this, simply place the workpiece onto the VOLCANO’s cone
shaped heating surface.
FEATURES
Portable, compact and very light (7.7 lbs)
A bearing weighing 11 lbs can be heated to 230°F in under four minutes
Silent operation – No support yoke required – simply place the workpiece on the device
Predictive temperature control (PTC) software for automatic temperature monitoring
SEE VOLCANO IN ACTION:
Making the right choice when it comes to soft starters and drives in your motor starting applications will save you money. This video walks you through how to find the right balance between performance and budget limitations by explaining the differences in soft starters and drives, and the applications on when to use them.
“All hoses will eventually fail, it’s just a matter of when” is an often ignored, but essential fact to remember when working with hydraulic hoses. Moreover, if a hose suddenly fails, it can have dire consequences, including increased labor and material cost, unscheduled downtime, and, most importantly, injury of those working on or near the hose. Avoiding failure should be a prime directive for any process or application that uses hydraulic hoses but, unfortunately, that’s not always the case.
Welcome to www.energysaveOhio.com: Your First Source for Energy Savings!
This site provides all the information and resources you need to take advantage of commercial and industrial energy efficiency incentive programs from Ohio Edison, The Illuminating Company and Toledo Edison (FirstEnergy’s Ohio utilities). These programs are being offered pursuant to Ohio Senate Bill 221 of 2008 and are designed to help meet the state’s goals to reduce both electricity usage and peak demand while encouraging commercial and industrial customers to save energy and money. The cost of these programs is recovered through non-residential customer rates in accordance with SB 221.
Click below for link and full details of this money saving program!
Across industries, variable frequency drives (VFDs) have been used for more than 40 years to save energy and energy costs and reduce wear-and-tear on valuable motor and pump assets. Today, drives are fundamentally used in the same way, but drive technology has evolved and improved—yielding highly compact drives that are better able than ever to reduce energy consumption and improve reliability, while extending equipment life.
Further, organizations can realize additional cost and time savings by integrating medium-voltage VFDs in their motor control center lineup. This results in systems that take up less space, are quicker to install, and require less equipment to buy and maintain.
How many times have you opened a locked closet door or cabinet drawer inside your facility to find it overflowing with junk? You have just breached a hoarder’s hidden treasure trove of spare parts and consumable materials. Hoarding is often a practice or workaround driven by a failure of some or all our your materials management business processes, The process to effect change and eliminate these hidden stores begins by asking “why?” (maybe mulitple times) to determine root cause.
