Month: October 2011

Keep Your Pressure Up and Your Risk Down

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Keeping up with all the new products EXAIR has been introducing has been somewhat daunting for me. My co-workers claim it is due to the age of my internal hard drive.  I would like to think that it is so filled with decades of knowledge that it has slowed down my internal processor. It is undeniable though, that EXAIR continues to launch new products to better serve the industrial compressed air community.

When we recently introduced our Atto Nozzle, which is about the size of a grain of rice, I started receiving application calls needing to replace open miniature copper tubing which presents issues with the OSHA directive of 30 psi maximum dead-end pressure. When operating the small open copper tubes at 30 psi they were not able to achieve sufficient air flow. Going to anything larger was not an option due to space constraints.

With the Atto Nozzle,  the orifices are nestled between the protective fins and there are multiple orifices. This makes it impervious to blockage so higher air pressures can be used to provide an effective blow off. Higher inlet pressures equal higher velocity air and sufficient volume to continue to get the job done while still maintaining OSHA compliance. All of EXAIR’s Super Air Nozzles have these features to allow you to keep your pressure up and get the job done while maintaining or increasing the safety to your personnel.

If would like to discuss your application with one of our engineers call us at 1-800-903-9247

Joe Panfalone
Application Engineer

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EXAIR 110 Gallon Chip Trapper Wins Another Award!

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Environmental Protection has announced the EXAIR 110 Gallon Chip Trapper as a New Product of the Year winner in the Waste category.  This is the THIRD award for the Chip Trapper.  The Chip Trapper was also a Golden Mousetrap Best New Products Awards Finalist, along with Plant Engineering’s Product of the Year.

The Chip Trapper is used to recover liquids and filter out unwanted chips, swarf, shavings, and debris.  You can then pump the filtered liquid back into your machine for further use or into a waste container through the use of the reversible valves. This enables you to use your coolants and liquids longer by keeping them cleaner, and do your part to keep things greener.

Due to the success of the 55 gallon Chip Trapper, EXAIR has produced a 30 gallon and 110 gallon version to complete a whole family of Chip Trapper products. If you would like to read more about the Chip Trapper or any of the other EXAIR products feel free to follow the links or contact us.

Brian Farno
Application Engineer
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF

Angry Pumpkins

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Pumpkin carving is set to be in full swing as people begin to celebrate Halloween, and I’m eager to do something different this year.  I’ve already begun my PLC ladder logic for the Christmas lights and I’ve decided to continue with this “geeked-out” mannerism when I carve my pumpkin.  Initially, I had no big idea for the carving, but a colleague of mine sent me a link to a site showing how to make a “Deathstar pumpkin”.  I was hooked.  But, the deathstar is a bit elaborate and time consuming so I decided to brainstorm a little.

As I considered the alternatives I found that my ideas were either way too elaborate, or completely non-existent.  I thought a bit more, trying to tie into my son’s costume this year (Captain Hook) – still nothing.  Finally, I had the idea when he asked to play his favorite game on my phone – Angry Birds!

I’ve decided to make a relief sculpture of the infamous red angry bird, with hopes my efforts turn out as well as the picture below.

I wrote last week about seeing things from a different point of view, and how we at EXAIR strive to give effort to this on a daily basis.  Our approach towards many applications often gives rise to the specific solution or sparks a series of ideas which lead to the solution.  Always brainstorming and weighing ideas against a desired outcome is one of the engineering department’s strong suits.  Whether we’re facing space restraints in an extrusion process, static control on a production line, or what to carve on a pumpkin, our minds are always working.

Lee Evans
Application Engineer
leeevans@exair.com
@EXAIR_LE

Pride in Ownership

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A lot of guys (girls too, but primarily guys) are loyalists to a particular automobile manufacturer. Perhaps a guy is a “Ford Man” because his favorite NASCAR driver drives a Ford. Or maybe he’s a “Chevy Man” because he fixed up an old Nova when he was a teenager. Then there’s the “Dodge Man” whose Dad’s Challenger was the fastest car in town. Regardless, they all have their reasons, and their devotion is strong.

I don’t mean this to be an endorsement for a particular company, but I’m a “Ford Man.” First new car I ever bought was a 1995 Ford Escort Wagon LX. It had six miles on the odometer, and reeked of New Car Smell. My plan was to pay it off quickly, maintain it fastidiously, and drive the wheels off of it. I did everything the manual said to do, when it said to do it. I put 197,000 miles on that car over the next eleven years, and, aside from gas, oil and tires, spent about $1,500 keeping it up.  And for eight of those years, I didn’t have a car payment.  Those were good years indeed!

I’ve been fielding technical service and application assistance calls at EXAIR for almost nine months now. Rarely does a week go by without a new (new to me, anyway) application presenting itself for the first time. I am starting to notice something of a trend, though: the return customer.

Sometimes they’ve used a similar EXAIR product in a similar application. Sometimes, it was at a previous place of employment even. Other times, they just plain think of EXAIR when it’s a compressed air-related question…and it’s not just our products’ reputations – we’ve been known to provide technical assistance with products we didn’t make, and applications outside the specific scope of our products.

The Return Customer seems to be spurred on just as often by a positive experience with an EXAIR product as a positive encounter with an EXAIR associate. For that reason, I’m doubly proud to take ownership in the service I provide here.

Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
EXAIR Corporation
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