Category: Tools and Machinery – Page 3

Joe Knows

You may remember the “Bo Knows” commercials from the late 80’s highlighting the many skills of professional athlete Bo Jackson.

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Goldie Oldies

Old doesn’t mean obsolete. Not in packaging machinery. We routinely rebuild machines from the 80’s, 70’s and earlier.
Manufacturing used

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Whitepaper: Dry Filling

In previous papers I discussed liquid filling. This month I’ll talk about dry, or solids, filling. There are many types

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机器从3 - Z

While recently showing customers the breadth and depth of our packaging and processing inventory, they pointed out that Frain has

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Is the box really the problem?

We don’t think so.
Do the machines your customers use:

Maximize the use of your product?
Help you maintain

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3D Printing and Scanning

I saw my first 3D printer at an H-P plant in 2001. They had printed a fully articulated V8 engine

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What Were They Thinking?

“Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen but thinking what no one else has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I get

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VALVES

I had the privilege of attending a press conference and in depth booth tour of Festo at the recent PackExpo.

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NO CHANGE SPROCKETS

An application I run across from time to time connects a cartoner to a pouch or bag forming machine. One

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63 PROCESSES

26 letters can be combined to make any word in English or any other language.
10 numeric digits can combined

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VACUUM SUCTION CUPS

PT Barnum is supposed to have said that there is a sucker born every minute. Judging by how frequently suckers

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HAND KNOBS AND LEVERS

Packaging machines use lots of hand knobs and hand levers to facilitate adjustment. To some extent I find them incorrectly

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