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EXAIR: Removing Concerns for OEMs. 

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Are you an OEM?  Some of the largest concerns for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are supply chain interruptions, quality issues, confidence in suppliers, and pricing.  In today’s market, changes occur frequently, and you need to rely on a supplier that can meet those changes.  With pneumatic blow-offs, static elimination, atomizing nozzles, pneumatic conveying, and electrical panel cooling, EXAIR can be that supplier for you. 

Since the establishment of EXAIR in 1983, customer satisfaction, quality, and quick turnaround have always been the cornerstone of our business model.   And with this type of business model, our company continues to grow each year.  Now EXAIR is recognized as a brand of excellence worldwide.  With thousands of products in stock, we are able to ship with over a 99.9% on-time delivery.  EXAIR offers free expert technical advice and shares solutions to pneumatic issues through EXAIR Blogs, application library, and social media. You can watch a quick video about EXAIR below.

Many companies are global and have plants and facilities throughout the world.  If details like cost savings, safety, increased productivity, problem-solving, and energy efficiency were shared with affiliates, it would be very beneficial for everyone.  It can help to grow profits, protect employees, improve throughput, and save energy, which will help to protect the environment.  Since EXAIR is a leader in these areas of compressed air products, we can help you and your partners with pneumatic solutions. EXAIR sells direct in the USA, and we have over 50 distributors located throughout the rest of the world.  If we do not have a distributor in your area, EXAIR does have an International Department that can assist you directly. 

Why would you rely on lesser component parts that could affect your brand?  This could be due to late deliveries, quality problems, and/or issues in the field.  EXAIR can save you and your customers that headache.  If you or your affiliates use compressed air to cool, dry, clean, convey, vacuum, or remove static electricity, EXAIR can improve these processes.  With our large inventory, technical support, and quality design, we can accommodate the excellence that you expect from your supplier.  You can contact us by phone at 800-903-9247, Chat, or email Application Engineers.  We will be happy to assist you.

John Ball
Application Engineer
Email: johnball@exair.com
Twitter: @EXAIR_jb

Social Media Finds Lost Dogs, Helps Save Compressed Air

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Lost Dog – Her name is Molly

 

The versatility of  social media is one of its greatest assets. If you have an interest in something you can most likely discover others with the same interests on one of the social media platforms. From Facebook, Twitter, blog posts, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube to Pinterest, Flickr, Instagram and Reddit – you will be hard pressed to NOT find something you are looking for.

The other day, we lost our dog, and it was a traumatic experience for us.  She saw some deer in the backyard; and in her crazed state, she knocked down the pet gate.  Molly went after the deer into the woods behind our place.  Being that it was raining and approaching the evening hour, I mentioned that when she gets done hunting, she will come back home.  We placed her bed and food onto the porch for when she returned.

The next day, Molly was not on the porch.  We were disheartened.  Being that I am a bit “old” school, we decided to print some flyers with Molly’s picture.  After I returned from work, we started in my neighborhood and worked our way out.  We drove to all the neighbors to see if they had seen her, and we stapled the flyers to telephone poles and community boards.  We were going at it for hours, and it seemed to be getting hopeless.  (Now, I would not have written this blog if it had a sad ending.)

As we continued to make our journey, I went up to a house and knocked on their door.  A gentleman answered, and I gave him the story of how our dog got out of her pen.  As I was still speaking, my significant other rolled down her window and shouted to me that she found Molly.  I was a little confused as I headed back to the vehicle.  She told me that a picture of Molly was on her Facebook.  (Of course Molly was making herself right at home as the picture showed her laying on a couch).  We were extremely happy that we had finally found her.  Apparently, a lady that found Molly posted her picture, and tagged her friends.  Her friends then sent it out to their friends, and before you knew it, we had her picture on Facebook.  With a friend request, we were able to receive her location and start our way to pick her up.  Believe it or not, Molly was over 2 miles away from our house.

Being curious, I looked at the timeline of the post.  I noticed that she posted the picture at 6:44 p.m., and we were looking at Molly at 7:28 p.m. that same day.  This was definitely much quicker and easier than hanging flyers and knocking on doors.  I was amazed at how fast and simple that this social networking reunited us with Molly.

This got me thinking about social media.  Facebook is the largest social network with almost 2 billion users throughout the world.  In looking at the nature of Facebook, it is more than reuniting with friends or finding lost dogs.  It also unites companies.  EXAIR has a Facebook page in which we post videos, photos, and blogs of compressed air solutions.  We can show you how to save money by using less compressed air with our products and how to solve every day problems with your compressed air system.  We would love to have you as a friend at www.facebook.com/exair.  We may not be able to find your dog, but we sure can share some stories, solve compressed air problems, and become good friends.

John Ball
Application Engineer

Email: johnball@exair.com
Twitter: @EXAIR_jb

 

 

Guess What Today Is?

Published on by Russ BowmanLeave a comment

Well, if everything went as planned, this blog is actually being posted on Friday. However, I’m writing it on Wednesday.

Don't even think about saying it.
Don’t even think about saying it.

Our daily blogs are written a couple of days in advance, so that they can be reviewed. None of us ever draft anything that’s inappropriate. Not REALLY inappropriate, anyway…but they are indeed checked for grammar, content, accuracy, and quality. I’m probably the most conceited about my writing ability (and for good reason…see?) but I’m still humble enough to appreciate any suggestions for improvement. Heck, if they make it look better before anyone else sees it, I get to take credit for that, too. It’s not like you readers know what gets changed.  If you want to know what I’m like sans edit review, you can always follow me on Twitter.

If our system of blog review and posting proves anything, it’s that it never hurts to run your plan by someone else with experience in what you’re trying to do. Case in point:

I had the pleasure of discussing an Industrial Vacuum application with a customer recently. One of our Chip Vacs had been in use within their shop for a long time, and they were quite pleased with its durability and longevity. They had begun working with some hardened steel product a while back, and, over time, those chips & shavings had worn through the Chip Vac’s aluminum body.  They wanted to order a replacement Chip Vac unit, and perhaps keep another in stock for when that one wore out, and were simply calling for price and availability.

Our solution, instead, was to provide a Heavy Duty Dry Vac. They didn’t need the complete system; just the Model 6097 Heavy Duty Dry Vac unit itself, since it’s dimensionally identical to the Chip Vac. They just unscrewed the Chip Vac on the drum lid, and threaded in the Heavy Duty Dry Vac.

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The EXAIR Chip Vac and Heavy Duty Dry Vac Systems.

It’s too soon to know for sure, but all signs point to a long, useful life. In fact, we’ve borne that theory out with in-house testing with numerous abrasive materials. We posted a video a while back, showing the effects of abrasive material conveyed through our Line Vac products: both the standard aluminum, and the hardened alloy Heavy Duty ones.  You can see the results for yourself, here.

If you’d like to get expert suggestions on your compressed air application, please give us a call.

Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
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“Camel” image courtesy of William Warby. Creative Commons License.