A dairy beverage facility has two blow mold lines manufactured by an OEM. These lines make three different bottle sizes (12, 28, & 52oz). To start, preforms travel through high-temp heating elements that get the preforms up to a certain temperatu Read More

A leading manufacturer of metal storage systems, shelving, and wire products was experiencing frequent malfunctions in the vacuum pick and place transferring system on their robots. The company’s chief automation engineer contacted SMC hoping Read More

One of BDI’s beverage customers was installing three new bottling lines from the original equipment manufacturer. The lead time for the capper heads was 12 weeks. The customer asked if BDI could provide them in a shorter lead time, so that they Read More

Harsh, wet conditions at a Midwest shingle manufacturing plant were causing continuous contamination to the coater roller. The operation, in which a mix of finely ground asphalt is applied to the shingle’s fiberglass base, was soggy at best. Co Read More

Fluorescent lighting contains many disruptive wave-lengths of light, which adversely affect the transfer of messages from the eye to the brain. Filtering out these specific wave lengths of light has been reported to help return vision to its natural Read More

Do you need to replace a worn out v-belt after years of running? Made of flexible rubber, the existing belt is likely stretched many different ways and might not even resemble a v-belt anymore! The following three ( Read More

 A sand and gravel company customer was having trouble with the conveyor belt on its pug mill. The belt’s head pulley had a very aggressive scraper, leading the customer to assume that vulcanizing was the only option for belt replacement. Read More