Archive for April 2018

Avoid These 8 Types of Waste to Improve Your Lean Manufacturing Process

Lean manufacturing is a management philosophy that aims to reduce waste in all its forms from the production process. While the seeds of this approach can be found in the writings of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Ford, it was executives at the Toyota Corporation who codified and expanded what we call the lean manufacturing process.…

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7 Common Mistakes When Designing Compressed Air Systems

  7 Common Mistakes When Designing Compressed Air Systems It is vital for your compressed air system to have proper design specifications for overall efficiency and performance. However, many companies do not get the full value of their compressed air system due to basic mistakes in the setup of their system’s design. Thus, they experience…

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Industrial Vacuum Pump Case Study

This industrial vacuum story is about a manufacturer who uses a vacuum pump system to generate “hold-down force” for material being fed to their CNC routers. They were originally running three 40 HP, fixed speed vacuum pumps along with a 30 HP variable speed unit for their application. With the assumption that they were at…

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