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‘Cleaning Process’
A Manufacturingtalk guide
Start with the news release
Insert drills raise fabricator's throughput from
Allied Maxcut Engineering Co, which we summarised at the time by saying "By using AMEC's T-A holders with TiAlN and TiN inserts a steel fabricator has improved manufacturing throughput by 25% and has increased tool life by a factor of 10 over the original tooling.".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release Matrox smart camera aids glass inspection from
Matrox Imaging: "The melting of sand and forming it into glass is a manufacturing process that dates back many years and inspection of the glass is a critical part of the process. ".
In October 2008, we covered the news from ATI Industrial Automation
- take a look at ATI introduces force/torque networkable sensor
which says: "ATI Industrial Automation has recently introduced the Network Force/Torque (Net F/T) Sensor System. ".
Take a look also at the news release from WNT (UK), WNT inserts cut production costs,
as well as ABB releases compact painting robot from ABB Robotics,
and ABB presents extended automation system from ABB Automation Tech (Instrumentation + Automation).
Latest stories...
GAO introduces active RFID tag (October 2008)
GAO RFID has developed an active UHF long-range tag (GAO 137003).
Loadstar releases digital brake testing systems (October 2008)
Loadstar Sensors has introduced iPedal brake testing systems.
Lean manufacturing boosts Texecom's efficiency (October 2008)
The Tube and Bracket Company has helped Texecom to implement lean manufacturing techniques and restructure assembly processes at its factory.
Carl Zeiss presents scanning measuring machine (October 2008)
Carl Zeiss has launched the Duramax 3D coordinate measuring machine to bring scanning to small workshops.
Rockwell offers single-source repair service (October 2008)
The Rockwell Automation Repairplus service will quickly repair equipment from a variety of manufacturers, using replacement parts that meet or even exceed the original design specifications.
Kingsbury supplies wash system for fastener line (October 2008)
Kingsbury Machine Tools has supplied an automated cleaning line from Durr Ecoclean to the Birmingham factory of Emhart Teknologies (part of the Black and Decker Group).
PDJ Vibro shakes up HLP's productivity (October 2008)
HLP Tube Formers has bought PDJ Vibro's finishing, deburring and drying equipment.
Partswash relaunches site for engineers (October 2008)
Partswash has relaunched its website at www.partswash.com.
Further reading
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Making sense of industrial cleaning processes
Mike Martin describes a dry ice cleaning process which will remove environmental concerns associated with traditional solvent cleaning systems and manual mechanical removal techniques.
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Co-solvent cleaning process replaces 'trike'
Following a thorough review of available high performance solvents and systems, a plating company has replaced its trichloroethylene system with a semi-automatic co-solvent cleaning process.
