Dec 12,2012
When the kitchen drain is clogged and the plunger doesn't help, a call to the plumber is in order. The plumber examines the situation, employs the tried-and-true snake to remove the clog, and quickly solves the problem. An ...
Dec 12,2012
Steve Staedler, Dorner Manufacturing If something can break on a conveyor, Jeff Bonaparte has seen it . . . and repaired it. A maintenance technician at Sussex IM, a custom injection molding manufacturer for a variety of ...
Dec 12,2012
Henry J. Renken, President, Advance Lifts, Inc. Dock lifts have two advantages over other means of unloading trucks: level unloading from the bed of a truck is safer than any other alternative, and?dock lifts are the only type ...
Dec 12,2012
Many manufacturing facilities have opted to follow the path toward a 5S workplace organizational and housekeeping methodology as part of continuous improvement or lean manufacturing processes. 5S is a system to reduce waste and ...
Dec 12,2012
How MVR Evaporators Can Reduce Plant Operation CostsDavid Loschiavo, Project Sales Engineer-Distillation and Evaporation, SPX Corp., Jens Garnry Nielsen, Senior Process Engineer, SPX Flow Technology Danmark A/S Various ...
Dec 12,2012
Spring and fall outages are important events for power plants, involving months of careful planning to minimize downtime. As part of the outage at a major Canadian Power Generation Station in Ontario, 4 shutdown coolers with ...
Dec 12,2012
"Green Pad" Helps Athlete Win Olympic Gold When Peter Wilson, world record-holder in men's Double Trap Shooting, won the gold medal in the men's Double Trap Shooting final recently at the 30th Olympiad in London, the stock of the ...
Dec 12,2012
Roscoe, IL is home to many more gear companies than your average town of 10,000 people, but the reason is obvious. During the peak of the machine tool boom in nearby Rockford, it was critical to have these important components ...
Dec 11,2012
UK-Trade AV specialist PSCo Rental has invested over£1m extending its Sutton Coldfield,Birmingham office that serves the Midlands and North of England.The investment includes a new stock profile that gives the Sutton ...
Dec 11,2012
UK-With widespread success across the UK market in TV studio installations,Northern Light has put in place plans to apply this success within the international arena. Andy Booth,senior contracts manager with Northern ...
Dec 11,2012
UK-Now signed to the Ministry of Sound label,electronic heavyweights Hadouken!performed a headline show at the Ministry of Sound Club itself.The London gig not only showcased the band's new single Bad Signal,but also the club's ...
Dec 10,2012
Two giant main bearings and related technologies for Caesars Entertainment Corp.'s High Roller observation wheel are being supplied by SKF. Eclipsing the famed 443-ft-tall London Eye, the 550-ft-tall High Roller is expected to ...
Dec 10,2012
, Taylor "Big Red" has expanded its range of specialized attachments for steel mills and service yards. Its TS-9972 Reach Stacker can now be equipped with a hydraulically powered 45 ton coil grab, designed and built by Winkle ...
Dec 10,2012
A southern Atlantic area vocational center provides job training and working opportunities to the disabled. More than that, the center is a highly efficient supplier of batteries to the federal government, serving as the largest ...
Dec 10,2012
Argosy Technologies has selected Emerson Process Management's Micro Motion® ELITE Coriolis flowmeters as an integral part of its new unique loading/unloading and fuel dispensing systems. The Micro Motion flowmeters provide ...
Dec 10,2012
Wisconsin Oven designed and manufactured a gas fired industrial draw batch oven with a powered load table for a company that repairs and refurbishes generators and steam or combustion turbines. The draw batch oven is used for ...
Dec 10,2012
Custom metal fabricator TC/American Manufacturing recently completed a high-profile project for NASA's new space shuttle Atlantis display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The Waite Park, MN metal ...
Dec 10,2012
Robust and long-lasting, Danfoss pressure and temperature controls play an important role in the oil and gas fields of the southeastern United States. Recently, the controls have gained popularity in a new process in the north ...
Dec 10,2012
Like any maintenance supervisor at a busy stamping plant, 30-year manufacturing veteran Mike DeWitt's goal at Radar Industries in Warren, MI, is to keep his presses up and running. With per-press downtime costing $250 to $1,000 an ...
Dec 10,2012
Offshore oil drilling platforms are often referred to as “cities on the sea” with over 100 people living and working on the largest of them at any given time. With staggered shifts of two weeks on and two weeks off, ...