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Parts Cleaning Across Continents
If the metalworking industry wants to predict the future of the parts cleaning market, it needs to look across the pond at the European trends and new developments taking place there.
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Every Shop has Stories to Tell
Hearing real-life examples of challenges, problems and pressures that always accompany the manufacturer of technically challenging precision metal components helps customers relate to your company.
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Aqueous Cleaning Optimization
David Gotoff, product manager at Chemetall, explains how each area of an aqueous process must be optimized, including system design and mechanical action, chemistry selection, key performance indicators, soil management, maintenance, rust protection, rust preventive selection, water chemistry, and drying.
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Inserts for Automated Toolholder Cleaning
Specifically, for toolholders and tool fixtures, Metallform (distributed by Ecoclean in the U.S.) has developed inserts that can be easily placed in standard cleaning baskets. They enable the fast, automated cleaning.
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Rust Preventive for Ferrous and Copper Metals
Madison Chemical’s Compound RP-99S, a versatile water-based rust preventive for use on ferrous and copper metals, is applied to previously cleaned parts by immersion, manual spray or recirculated spray methods.
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Guide Helps Plan for Cleaning Equipment
Cleaning Technologies Group, LLC’s new guide, titled “Planning for New Cleaning Equipment,” was written for beginners to the world of parts washing and ultrasonic cleaning.
Read MoreLayton Technologies' Machine Uses Azeotropic Blend for Cleaning of Electric Components
The drying of the components is carried out in the vapor phase and freeboard area below the sealed sliding lid. The components can be immersed and/or sprayed. The spray pressure can be controlled for particularly fragile components.
Read MoreERP Software on the Move
Desktop computers are becoming a thing of the past, whether we like it or not. “Mobility” is the key, and that’s true in manufacturing as well. Henning created a mobile app to use on a tablet or mobile phone right at the workcenter. The app eliminates the need for shop personnel to go elsewhere in the shop to input data into the system.
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Simplifying Aqueous Cleaning Decisions
The four basic methods for performing water-based cleaning operations in metalworking are outlined and described in this article, “Choosing the Right Aqueous Cleaning Operation.”
Read MoreMoving Vertical Turning Up
There is always room for improvement, and transitioning from vertical turning to inverted vertical turning can be one way to improve your shop’s efficiency. The benefits of inverted vertical turning include a smaller machine footprint relative to horizontal turning centers of similar capacity; multitasking capabilities; and maybe the biggest benefit—chips fall away from the spindle into a conveyor in the machine base and out of the workzone.
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New Technologies Impacting Businesses
In a recent PM column written by Jeff Kamphake, regional sales manager at TechSolve, he says disruptive technologies are on the rise and manufacturers must embrace and leverage them.
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Paul Horn Facility Showcases its Expertise
Paul Horn GmbH’s facility in Tübingen, Germany, is impressive not only because of its cleanliness, but the size of the campus and the company’s fast growth from year to year.
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