Understanding Manufacturing Equipment

  • Using Dimensional Inspection To Ensure Parts Are Accurate

    5 March 2021

    If you are manufacturing parts or items that need to have extremely tight tolerances, the best way to ensure the item's accuracy is to send it to a dimensional inspection lab for verification. Using a lab to check random parts in the run to produce an unbiased sample is often required in industries where parts or products have extremely slim margins for error. The Purpose Of Dimensional Inspection In the simplest terms, dimensional inspection is a verification process that involves an inspector going over a part or item to check every dimension on it against the design or engineering drawing to ensure the piece matches the requirements.

  • 4 Things To Look For In A Custom Metal Steel Fabrication Partner

    14 July 2020

    If you need to have something created from steel for a product, you are going to need to partner with a custom steel fabrication business to create your product. When you are looking for a custom steel fabrication partner, there are a few traits you are going to want to look for in order to have the best fabrication experience. #1: Buys Mill-Direct Supplies With any fabrication partner, you want to ask how they source the metal they use to create their custom products.

  • How Your Manufacturing Plant Might Benefit From Graphite

    30 April 2019

    Graphite is popular in many processing and manufacturing plants for good reason. Graphite materials offer a number of qualities that are hard to find or replicate with other material types. Here are just some of the reasons why your plant might want to stock up on graphite today. Dry Lubrication Graphite is widely considered to be excellent for providing lubrication for machinery without actually getting anything wet. When it heats up a bit, graphite can form a coating or film that will protect moving parts in your machinery from wear and tear.

  • Architectural Improvements To Make Your New Luxury Loft More Modern

    15 January 2018

    If you're someone who really loves the concept of modern architecture, and you are a new owner of a luxury loft, then you might want to consider hiring an architect or designer to come into your home and help you transform the new space into something that would feel at home in a modern design magazine. There are a few cool designs you can incorporate. Below are some architectural ideas to incorporate into the loft.

  • 3 Tips To Perfect Your Acrylic Fabrication

    7 September 2017

    Many of the products manufactured today require the use of plastic components. These plastic components are often created by fabricating acrylic to produce the desired shape, weight, and form. Perfecting the acrylic fabrication process allows your company to generate more precise plastic components for your manufacturing applications. Here are three simple tips that you can use to improve the quality and precision of your acrylic fabrication in the future. 1. Clean your acrylic properly.

  • Stackable Reach-In Crate Boxes: How This Custom Corrugated Box Helps You Sell More

    17 October 2016

    There are so many custom corrugated boxes and box designs out there, but do any of them help you sell products? If so, can these custom boxes help you sell more of a product? What custom boxes help you make more money and how do they do that? Yes, Custom Boxes Help You Sell Products Custom boxes can be shaped to look like cut-outs onto which you can display advertising and place just about anywhere in your store.

  • Banging Out The Truth Masked By Common Metal Roofing Myths

    16 September 2016

    There's a growing trend in the residential roofing market: metal roofs! They seem to be popping up everywhere, replacing many shingle roofs in suburban and rural areas. Their predominant benefit (though they have many) is that they can last up to 80 years whereas the typical asphalt shingle roof only lasts 20. Yet, some homeowner are resistant to the idea of metal roofing, usually because they've heard some negative myths about them.