 | Robot welder/cutter delivers accuracy, efficiency
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A combination 3D plasma cutter and welder facility is helping go-ahead engineering firm Metalform successfully break into export markets. Kiwi companies can also take advantage of this technology. By Glenn Baker.
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 | Clyde Volpe on vibration analysis
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MAKING vibration analysis (VA) easy to understand is perhaps the greatest strength of Clyde Volpe, one of two world-class VA trainers associated with the seminar programme at Manukau Institute of Technology’s Maintenance and Reliability Centre. This is the firm belief of senior lecturer Larry Wiechern |
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 | Why clean tubes?
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TO FUNCTION efficiently, every tube-type heat exchanger device – whether a hot water or steam boiler, condenser, or an exchanger heating or cooling a liquid or gas – requires that the surface of the tubes be clean and scale-free. |
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 | Bigger capacity fume solution
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CLEANING up fumes efficiently won’t cost you as much as you think. The DustStorm filter range from New Zealand Duct & Flex is a tried and tested, ‘off the shelf’ and competitively priced ($15,500) automatic fume solution. |
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 | What’s trust, reputation and brand really worth?
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IF YOUR future clients know about you, and your good work or products, then they'll be more receptive. |
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 | Maintenance training still lacking
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ON THE eve of two important hydraulic and pneumatic maintenance seminars at the MIT’s Maintenance and Reliability Centre in August, the associated trainers are agreed on one worrying fact – there is a serious lack of ongoing maintenance training happening across the board in New Zealand industry and it’s raising serious reliability issues. |
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 | New generation single-point lubricators
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INDUSTRIAL Lubricants and Services (ILS), a specialist lubricant importer and distributor, has been receiving great feedback on the latest Pulsarlube single point lubricators. |
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 | Clever solutions for surface conditioning
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IT’S THE letters after his name on his business card that provide a clue to Alan Tasker’s true calling. The ‘MSc Hon’ represents not just a masters degree in chemistry, but also an ongoing passion for research and experimentation – and coming up with ingenious solutions to ‘surface conditioning challenges’. It’s the chief reason why his company Discon Products is able to manufacture smart, customised coated abrasive products for specific applications. Give him a problem to solve and he’ll relish the challenge! |
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