Industrial Air Filtration Articles
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Talking Industrial Dust Collection with Glacier Technology
Industrial Dust Collection and Centrifugal Fans Most dust collection systems require an industrial fan to supply the process air. This is one of the applications we support most often, usually in collaboration with our manufacturer’s reps and the dust collector OEM. The rep plays a vital role in ensuring optimal technology and specifications for the application in question. Our reps from ...
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Dust Collection System: 5 Ways it Improves Plant Efficiency and Saves Money
Why you may need a new dust collection system for your application and how a new system improve operations. What is a Dust Collection System? Dust collection systems are engineered and designed to filter airborne dust particles and debris that can cause damage to plant equipment, create a hazardous work environment, and negatively impact plant production. Installation of a new dust collection ...
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Removing IAQ Risks for Bottom-Line Results - Case Study
Innovative Clean Air Solution Removes Costly Hexavalent Chromium Threats for Global Aerospace Manufacturer From respiratory irritations to lung cancer, hexavalent chromium poses serious health and productivity risks for aerospace and defense manufacturer workers during sanding, painting, and other manufacturing and refurbishing tasks involving aluminum aircraft ...
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Increasing Predictive Maintenance ROI - Improve Predictive Maintenance Profitability with Modular Industrial Air Filtration
Save Maintenance Time and Money with Modular Industrial Air Filtration According to the Department of Energy, predictive maintenance can reduce overall industrial maintenance costs by up to 30%, cut downtime by up to 45%, and decrease breakdowns by more than 70%. If you’re a shop floor manager, you already know that proactive maintenance is key to preventing unplanned equipment outages, ...
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Safeguarding Sanding, Coating, Painting - Multi-Process Air Filtration for Aircraft Manufacturing
One Clean Air Solution for In-Tandem Sanding, Coating, and Painting Aerospace and aviation components aren’t just large; they’re immense. Sanding, coating, or painting a single jet engine can require significant material handling and labor resources. Why? These manufacturing processes produce airborne particulates that can contaminate sensitive aircraft components, which is why ...
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The Ultimate Match in Economic Efficiency
Lean & Modular Industrial Air Filtration In the face of new economic uncertainties, it may be time for manufacturers to turn to their “lean” roots to apply small ideas to solve seemingly enormous problems. Perhaps this starts with asking questions such as, “What can we do to eliminate inefficiencies associated with potentially-hazardous machining, sanding, coating/painting, ...
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Quick-Deploy Air Filtration for Military & Defense Manufacturers
Clean Air in Zero to 60 for Mission-Critical Operations Military and defense contractors face daily, indoor air quality (IAQ) challenges, due to contaminants released from manufacturing and maintenance processes. Finishing metal machinery and components can be particularly hazardous, both to employee health and production deadlines. When time is money, permanent enclosures are not efficient for ...
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Additive Manufacturing Creates New Aerospace Clean Air Challenges
Exploring Solutions for New 3D Printing Airborne Hazards Additive manufacturing (the industrial version of 3D printing) was front and center at AeroDef 2020, with three days devoted to exploring this technology’s potential to overcome low throughput, geometric restrictions, structural defects, and other aerospace and aviation manufacturing challenges. But for all the 3D buzz, there’s ...
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Clearing the Air for Weld Shop Productivity - Engineered Industrial Air Filtration - Case Study
Situation A North American weld shop needed a cost-effective way to isolate their robotic welding machine and contain the large clouds of indoor weld smoke that placed both employees and plant productivity at risk. PPE reduced respiratory threats, but did nothing to improve work area visibility. In addition to covering their OSHA and EPA bases, the company needed a clean air solution to: ...
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Lean Into Clean, Safe Manufacturing - Case Study
Situation Painting a 30-foot wide electric turbine is a formidable maintenance task, especially for manufacturers trying to go more lean by eliminating wastes and increasing efficiencies. For one global energy equipment manufacturer, sanding or spray painting even a single electric turbine required shutting down seven different operations in the hangar, until each task was completed. While not ...
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Get real manufacturing OEE improvement with modular air filtration
If you conducted an OEE analysis today, would your manufacturing processes pass muster? Or would your overall equipment effectiveness results show wasted downtime on activities like material handling, rearranging shop floors for moving large units, and filter changes on permanent clean air enclosures? Housekeeping activities like these are often viewed as necessary evils to maintain product ...
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5 Manufacturing applications where modular industrial air filtration benefits the bottom line
In any industrial setting, cleanliness is essential to ensuring production quality and reducing operating costs. Whether you’re sanding a boat, manufacturing a jet engine, or finishing an MRAP, dust and other airborne particles can settle into every nook and cranny of your large, complex components. Tiny particulates can contaminate bolts, rivets, or screws and endanger equipment ...
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Mitigate the manufacturing risks from hexavalent chromium exposure
Hexavalent chromium or Cr(VI) is an airborne carcinogen that is regulated by OSHA for manufacturing and general industrial operations. If you run a manufacturing facility, you probably don’t need regulatory watchdogs to tell you that hexavalent chromium, also known as “hex chromates,” can wreak havoc on your production operations. This toxic form of chromium is released into ...
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9 Ways an industrial company can improve operations by choosing the right clean air solution
In our most recent white paper on choosing the right industrial air filtration solution for large-scale manufacturers, we explore the clean air challenge. Airborne particulates create many problems in manufacturing. Coating quality, equipment reliability, and product performance are all compromised when air isn't clean. More importantly, dirty air puts worker health and safety at risk and ...
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Clearing the air on OSHA indoor air quality
OSHA and other environmental watch dogs don’t officially regulate indoor air quality (IAQ), but most manufacturers follow best practices when it comes to their indoor work environments, because they understand the ROI benefits of less downtime and improved productivity. Additionally, while OSHA does not currently enforce IAQ standards, all employers, including manufacturers, are expected to ...
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The benefits of modular air filtration solutions for metal fabricators
Metal fabrication is a dirty business, which means air filtration is essential. Many fabrication processes put fumes, smoke, and particulates into the air. Grinding, welding, abrasive blasting, sanding and spraying are all culprits. Without effective air filtration, your shop environment can quickly become hazardous to worker safety, productivity, facility maintenance, and more. Like other ...
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4 Operations every metal fabricator should contain with an industrial air filtration system
Shops that make fabricated metal products, do fabricated plate work, or engage in fabricated structural metal manufacturing cut, grind, weld, and finish metal. These operations release particulates and fumes into the shop environment. Containing them with an industrial air filtration system can ensure compliance with environmental regulations, benefit employee health, and reduce downtime. Below ...
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The benefits of using portable air filtration systems in cellular manufacturing
Today's manufacturers need more advanced industrial air filtration solutions to protect the health of their workers and meet compliance standards without sacrificing the health of their bottom line. The challenge is that manufacturing can be organized in many ways, from the build-in-place methods used for ships to automated assembly lines for cars and electronics, which makes the the process of ...
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Addressing your industrial indoor air quality questions
Modular air filtration empowers factory workers to focus on their task at hand — free from indoor air quality (IAQ) concerns and unencumbered by clunky PPE equipment. There’s also the added benefit of keeping OSHA and other compliance watch dogs at bay. But, what are the specific IAQ requirements under OSHA? What bottom-line benefits does industrial air filtration offer OEMs? And ...
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5 Manufacturing applications where modular industrial air filtration benefits the bottom line
Professionally produced products and parts will generally be judged by their finish. Next to the skill of the painters, the technical capabilities of the industrial spray booth is the biggest contributor to achieving a quality finish. Whether concerned about dry times, cure quality, overspray control, or the challenges that come with using waterborne paints - airflow technology is a critical ...
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