The misalignment of your coating/laminating equipment can cause excessive waste and downtime, poor product quality and a decrease in overall efficiency – all of which can lead to dissatisfied customers. So, how can you be sure that misalignment is the problem? An alignment inspection of your production line is your best course of action. However, [...]
When speaking of measurements, accuracy is the topic that is most often discussed. But in fact, there is something equally important that is often overlooked – repeatability, otherwise known as precision. When measuring in industrial conditions, a service company can take alignment measurements with less than perfect instruments and achieve a specification of accuracy. Yet, [...]
The Signs and Symptoms of Misalignment within Your Corrugator In our last post, we demonstrated a client example of waste due to misalignment. In this post, we discuss what to look for to determine misalignment, and the need for alignment services. How do you know if misalignment currently exists within your corrugator? What type of [...]
A corrugating client recently contacted OASIS about their desire to increase their machine’s operating speeds, while at the same time improving the quality of their board and reducing the amount of waste they were producing. They needed to find a solution for correcting their delamination and twist warp problems. The Solution……..A Complete Corrugator Alignment Delamination, twist warp, [...]
In our last post, Cascades Tissue Group had the challenge of an emergency roll repair. Learn how the 3D Metrology Services from OASIS reduced their downtime. Dimensional Metrology Services Needed: OASIS Called In Daniel Paradis, Paper Machine Specialist from Cascades Tissue Group in Candiac, QC, Canada, contacted the OASIS Canadian Service Center in Montreal for help. Having worked with OASIS on [...]
“The 3D Metrology Services from OASIS saved us weeks in downtime and thousands of dollars in lost productivity. Their fast response, plus their ability to quickly and accurately inspect the damaged breast roll was beyond what we could have hoped for. I highly recommend their services.” -Daniel Paradis, Paper Machine Specialist, Cascades, Inc. The Challenge: [...]
A large paperboard mill in Ontario, Canada was having issues with baggy edges, wrinkles and lateral tracking problems (in cross-machine direction), particularly in the board machine’s coater area. These problems regularly caused sheet breaks 2 or 3 times a week, every time resulting into stopping the production for 2-4 hours. With each down hour costing between five [...]
It is often a preconceived notion that precision is the defining strength of a measurement device. While it is true that many applications require extreme precision and accuracy, other applications can simply benefit from the versatility of such devices. Laser trackers are portable coordinate measurement devices where in most applications their precision is called upon [...]
One of the most common tasks involving machinery alignment is locating machine components during installation. The erection process of a large or complex machine can be a daunting task. In some cases, the process involves thousands of components that fit perfectly together on the design engineer’s CAD software, but in reality are subject to real [...]
Large and small machinery is susceptible to the effects of temperature variations due to fundamental properties of materials at the molecular level. Basically, when various materials change temperature, they change dimensionally. When the size of the components affected is considerable, the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material is high, and if there is enough [...]
