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New High-Flow Spool Valve from Tridak™
Reduces Costs in Fluid Packaging Operations
Tridak Model 780 Spool Valve
The Model 780 spool valve from Tridak provides a higher rate of fluid flow during dispensing for faster cycling and greater production throughput. This valve is designed to accommodate a broader range of fluids, including those possessing high viscosities. The Model 780 dispense valve is ideal for fluid packaging operations, including filling vials, bottles, and other specialty containers. This valve is easily integrated into robotics and automated production processes.
To maintain the precise accuracy of the volume dispensed, the Model 780 spool valve possesses adjustable material suck-back and flow control. Once the exact volume is dialed in during initial qualification, repeatable performance is assured. The standard Model 780 spool valve is supplied with hard-coated aluminum components and Teflon® seals. It is also available in stainless steel and Teflon® construction for applications involving unique materials. Tridak’s Model 345 Valve Controller is ideally suited to actuate this valve.
Tridak specializes in fluid dispensing technology. It manufactures a complete line of precision dispense valves, electro-pneumatic dispensers and controllers, disposable packaging, and complete dispensing and filling systems for industrial assembly and packaging.
For more information, contact Tridak, 318 Industrial Lane, Torrington, CT 06790; Phone: 860-626-6700; Fax: 860-626-7692; E-mail: info@tridak.com or visit our web site at www.tridak.com.
Crown Equipment Unveils New Internal Combustion Forklift
Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s leading forklift manufacturers, today marked the availability of its first company-manufactured internal combustion (IC) forklift with the release of the Crown C-5 Series. The new forklift, which is designed to push the limits of IC performance, leverages the company’s core expertise and heritage in material handling to deliver commanding advantages to owners and operators seeking improved power and strength, service and uptime, and comfort and safety.
Specifically, the Crown C-5 features an industrial engine that was jointly developed with John Deere Power Systems (John Deere), a proactive approach to engine cooling and radiator clearing via an on-demand cooling system, and design innovations that improve operator visibility, comfort and productivity. Product owners will see immediate return on their investment from extended service intervals and an exclusive Crown power brake system that collectively reduce maintenance costs and downtime.
“Our customers came to us with internal combustion forklift issues related to engine performance, overheating, operator comfort and maintenance,” said Crown President Jim Dicke III. “Our fresh perspective on these problems, combined with extensive research and development, and our 50-year legacy of innovation and material handling expertise, allowed us to create a truly industrial forklift. We saw an opportunity to help our customers move beyond the existing limitations of IC truck performance.”
An integral element to Crown’s research and development efforts was the analysis of maintenance work performed on thousands of IC trucks. This process enabled Crown to determine the most common and costly problems, and focus its design to solve the most universal uptime and service challenges traditionally accepted within the IC market.
Powering the Crown C-5
According to Crown research, sub-par performance was one of the predominant downfalls of existing IC forklifts that rely on automotive-style engines. A co-development project with John Deere produced a 2.4-liter industrial engine for the Crown C-5 that integrates the best practices from the diesel engines used to power John Deere’s rugged construction equipment with the best practices from Crown’s five decades in material handling.
The result is the Crown C-5 industrial engine, which features a cast iron head and larger, more robust components that are designed to prevent overheating and warping while extending the product’s lifespan to twice that of existing IC trucks. The Crown C-5’s horsepower and low-end torque are the most powerful in the IC market, improving performance during acceleration, incline-loaded travel, and carrying or pushing heavy loads.
“People generally don’t drive their cars for eight to 16 hours a day, six days a week,” said Crown Product Manager Andy Smith. “In fact, running an automotive engine in a forklift for just 2,500 hours is the equivalent of driving 100,000 miles at 40 miles per hour in a car. An automotive engine just isn’t built to withstand the demands of many material handling environments. A manufacturing, agricultural or construction setting is a better proving ground because you’ve got dirt, debris and longer run times. With this industrial engine, the Crown C-5 can handle hotter, more demanding applications.”
Cooling the Crown C-5
Research showed that another challenge associated with IC lift truck engines was overheating. Crown addressed this challenge with a dual open-core radiator with separate cooling systems for the engine and transmission. This is a standard feature on the Crown C-5.
Further, Crown engineered an optional and exclusive On-Demand Cooling (ODC) system that automatically clears itself of debris and provides precise cooling to effectively manage heat in intense and dirty environments. Each time a user starts the Crown C-5, the ODC system’s radiator-clearing feature reverses the fan direction to dislodge any debris. This drastically reduces the frequency of radiator cleanings, which reduces maintenance costs and increases uptime, according to Smith. In addition, the ODC system adjusts its fan speed based on engine temperature, and the strategic placement of the fan improves cooling efficiency by pulling air evenly through the radiator rather than pushing the air as most other systems do.
Operating the Crown C-5
Operators spending most of their day on the Crown C-5 will notice superior drivability advantages in the form of control, comfort, stability and visibility. Control is achieved through Crown Access 1 2 3Ò System Control, which is the electronic system that manages all truck functions and proactively facilitates two-way communication with the operator. The technology also plays a critical role in keeping the operator out of unsafe conditions.
The system’s on-board display uses Crown eSmart™ Accurate Fuel Tracking to alert the operator when the system senses 16 minutes of remaining fuel time. This technology increases productivity by reducing the time spent unnecessarily changing fuel tanks. Further, the display screen calls attention to detailed information about engine performance and allows authorized users to adjust performance settings and technicians to troubleshoot components.
The Crown C-5 is also designed to improve drivability, which is the confidence and control operators require when maneuvering or handling a load. Drivability of the Crown C-5 is gained through:
- Comfort: After identifying drivability challenges and conducting ergonomic tests to identify pressure points in traditional IC forklift seats, Crown designed and built its patented FlexSeat™ to provide comfort for operators. The Crown C-5 also enhances comfort by redirecting heat and exhaust away from the user during reverse travel, facilitating entry/exit with larger steps, utilizing a contoured seat deck, and featuring an unobtrusive push-button parking brake.
- Stability: When the forks and masts are tilted more than two degrees forward, the Crown C-5’s interlock feature stops them from rising above free lift. Other intrinsic stability attributes include more mass, dead-engine breaking and steering, hill hold, and ramp speed control.
- Visibility: The Crown C-5’s lower counterweight and LP bottle increase operators’ field of view by five feet compared to other IC lift trucks. These features improve operator confidence and help prevent product damage. Forward-facing visibility is also improved via a higher and closer seat position to the forks than seats on competitor products. Finally, thinner posts and a shorter cowl facilitate an unobstructed view of the forks, while an overhead guard design improves visibility of loads at height.
Servicing the Crown C-5
Another challenge facing the IC lift truck market has been the high cost of frequent service and maintenance issues. In its first 2,000 hours of operation, the Crown C-5 is projected to average just 79 routine maintenance tasks. This performance improvement delivers reduced downtime and lowered out-of-pocket maintenance costs compared to traditional IC trucks. For example, the self-adjusting power brake system on the Crown C-5 has fewer moving parts and a 90 percent larger brake pad surface than traditional drum brakes, which translates into a lifespan that is three times longer and requires 93 percent fewer maintenance checks. The power brake system is a standard feature on the Crown C-5 6,000 and 6,500-pound models.
When a technician does need to service a Crown C-5, he or she can do so quickly and easily thanks to the truck’s component accessibility. The Crown C-5’s post-to-post clearance is the largest in the industry, and its seat deck opens to an industry-leading 95-degree angle to provide even more space for technicians. Side panels and the floorboard can be removed without tools allowing easy reach to filters, dipsticks and fuses.
For more information, you can also view the John Deere Power Systems News Release.
About Crown Equipment Corporation
Crown is one of the world’s largest lift truck manufacturers. Crown’s award-winning line of lift trucks maintains a reputation for exceptional product design, engineering and manufacturing. From the smallest hand pallet truck to the highest lifting turret truck, Crown seeks to provide users with safe, efficient and ergonomic lift trucks that lower total cost of ownership and maximize uptime. Headquartered in New Bremen, Ohio, Crown manufactures lift trucks that are sold throughout the world. For more information, visit http://www.crown.com/.
Endevco Offers Industry’s Highest Temperature ISOTRON® (IEPE) Triaxial Accelerometers to Simplify Testing and Instrumentation Requirements
Endevco Corporation (Endevco®), a Meggitt Group Company and global leader in the design and manufacture of sensing solutions for demanding vibration, shock and pressure applications, has announced their offering of the industry’s highest temperature ISOTRON® (IEPE-type) triaxial accelerometers, models 65HT and model 67, both operating to +175°C (+347°F), for reliable performance with simplified testing and instrumentation requirements.
Endevco® model 65HT ISOTRON® high temperature triaxial accelerometer is offered in ranges of ±10,000 g (0.5 mV/g) and ±500 g (10 mV/g) in a low-noise, low impedance, 10mm welded titanium cube design, weighing just 5 grams, and offering milli-g resolution. The sensors are shockproof and overload protected. Interface to model 65HT is via a single, miniature 4-pin connector, with flexible cable. Model 65HT’s excellent frequency response, both amplitude and phase, provide the user with a triaxial accelerometer ideally suited for structural and component testing, drop tests and general laboratory vibration work. The reduced size and reliable high temperature performance of this accelerometer enables a test technician to simultaneously measure acceleration across three orthogonal axes of vibration on lightweight structures, without the need for charge amplification. Recommended accessories for use with model 65HT include an optional mounting clip (model 41013), mounting block (model 40965 block with model EH769 screw) and thermal isolator model 2988M11. The model 65HT is also available as part of the Endevco® new -R replacement sensor program.
Endevco® model 67 ISOTRON® high temperature triaxial accelerometer is offered in ranges of ±500 g (10 mV/g) and ±50 g (100 mV/g), in a 14mm cube welded titanium. The hermetically sealed package weighs less than 14 grams. The model 67 accelerometer offers high output sensitivity, low noise and low base strain sensitivity, with excellent output stability over time. Like model 65HT, Endevco® model 67 is both shock proof and overload protected, offering milli-g resolution. It offers a single connector, with flexible cable. Both model 65HT and model 67 include mating cables, which terminate into three BNC connectors and appropriate mounting stud. With their industry exclusive high temperature reliability, and availability in a variety of sensitivities, Endevco® high temperature IEPE-type triaxial accelerometers are ideal for use in NVH, HALT/HASS/ESS, high temperature product reliability testing, health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS), modal and structural analysis, and applications which call for the vibration monitoring of turbines and other rotating equipment. Recommended signal conditioners for use with Endevco® model 65HT and model 67 are model 133, model 2793 and model 4990A (Oasis). For detailed technical specifications, drawings or additional information about high temperature IEPE-type triaxial accelerometers or other Endevco® products, visit http://www.endevco.com/ .
About Endevco Corporation, a Meggitt Group Company:
Founded in 1947, with headquarters in San Juan Capistrano, California, USA, Endevco is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of dynamic instrumentation for vibration, shock and pressure measurement. The company’s comprehensive lines of piezoelectric, piezoresistive, Isotron® and variable capacitance accelerometers are used to ensure accurate and reliable measurements in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, defense, automotive, test and measurement, medical, and energy. Additional products include pressure transducers, acoustic sensors, electronic instruments and calibration systems. A member of the Meggitt group of companies (http://www.meggitt.com), Endevco supports customers with a global network of manufacturing and research facilities, sales offices and applications engineers. Isotron is a registered trademark of Meggitt Group, PLC.
Capacitec High Temperature Non-Contact Displacement Sensors Offer Performance to +1000 °C in Manufacturing and Testing Applications
Capacitec, Inc. (Capacitec) (www.capacitec.com), a global leader in the design and manufacture of non-contact capacitive displacement, gap and parallelism sensing technologies for scientific and industrial customers, has announced the successful application of high-temperature non-contact displacement sensors within disc brake wear analysis, glass manufacturing and aircraft engine testing applications.
Since the 1970’s, Capacitec high temperature non-contact sensing technology has been in use in North America, Europe and Japan to solve the most demanding applications, measuring displacement of up to 0.4” (10 mm), within extreme temperature environments where resolution of one micron or better is a requirement, such as:
- In-vehicle disc brake wear analysis. Capacitec Model HPC-150C-H sensor assembly offers small size (OD 9.5 mm), large range (2.5 mm) and 0.25 micron resolution. Operating at +400 °C, they are used to test runout, thickness variation, coning, wobble and thermal expansion of disc brake rotors.
- Automotive windshield glass production. Manufacturing equipment incorporates Model HPC-500-V sensors with flexible high temperature cables. These measure gaps in the tooling at production temperatures of +800 °C, to ensure precise glass size and shape specifications.
- Commercial plate glass production and fabrication. Capacitec custom gap sensors with 4 meters of +800 °C high temperature cables are used to control thickness of anti-reflective and solar coatings.
- Aircraft engine testing. Operating in temperatures of up to +1,000°C, Capacitec Model HPC-75-V/S non-contact displacement sensors measure thermal expansion, axial expansion and radial runout to confirm that dimensional design parameters meet specification at extreme operating temperatures.
For more information about these and other non-contact sensing systems, visit www.capacitec.com.
About Capacitec, Inc.:
Headquartered in Ayer, Massachusetts, with additional operations in Creteil, France, Capacitec is a global technology company dedicated to advancing the capacitive principle of measurement physics to its highest level in sensor system design. The company’s core competencies are the design and manufacture of non-contact capacitive displacement, gap and parallelism sensing systems, which include hardware, data acquisition systems and software. Capacitec specializes in large range, small diameter sensors that operate in severe environments, from cryogenic to +1000°C, under radiation to 1011 RADS and in magnetic fields to 5 Tesla. More than 25 years of successful product line history has demonstrated Capacitec's expertise across all markets, particularly within applications where a more sophisticated ruler is required, and where traditional sensors cannot fit or survive a typical environment.
BorgSolutions Introduces World’s First Fleet Maintenance Software for Dealers: Borg Fleet Linked Edition
BorgSolutions, the leading provider of fleet management solutions that reduce operating, labor and other costs for construction, oil & gas, fleet rental and transportation companies, today introduced Borg Fleet Linked Edition, the industry’s first fleet maintenance management solution built specifically for the dealer/ supplier. A module built onto Borg Fleet, BorgSolutions’ fleet maintenance management solution, the Linked Edition allows dealers/ service providers to communicate directly with their customers; automating parts and service requests, all aspects of invoice and financial tracking as well as market directly to their customers - vastly increasing sales opportunities.
Borg Fleet Linked Edition functions as a module built onto Borg Fleet, offering additional views and functionalities well beyond its fleet maintenance management solution. Designed specifically for the dealer/ supplier industry, the Linked Edition is an improvement on Borg Fleet’s Web-based software-as-a-service, which utilizes a proprietary technology that facilitates predictive maintenance, streamlined work orders, fuel and inventory management, resource allocation, repair scenarios and scheduling through real-time data collection and analytics. It acts as a real-time, direct connection for a preferred dealer/ service provider to the end-user fleet manager.
This user-friendly interface allows for parts and service requests to be handled through the system at a click of a button, manages all back office aspects including work orders, invoicing, service allocations, etc. and provides a constant link from which the dealer can advertize specials and market products directly to their customers.
“We understand that for those equipment and supplier dealers that service fleet industries, sales have taken a downturn in the past year,” said Chris Borg, CEO, BorgSolutions. “Dealers/ service providers are looking to increase service and parts sales as well as boost customer retention. Out of this need, BorgSolutions has created Borg Fleet Linked Edition; a true link for dealers and service providers to communicate, in real-time with their customers, provide better service and increase sales and marketing opportunities.”
Borg Fleet Linked Edition’s highlights offered for dealers/ service providers include:
- Receive parts and service requests through the system in real-time: Customers are able to provide the necessary data of the parts needed or service requested at a click of a button. There is no need to go outside the system, fill out a vendor request form, or make a call; thus cutting down the time of parts delivery and/or vehicle service, and erasing human error.
- Manage all back office aspects on service and parts requests: Through the system, the dealer/ service provider is able to track all costs associated with parts requests and/or maintenance service provided, including 3rd party invoicing, maintenance crew hours, allocation of parts, etc.
- Monitor customer’s equipment to better understand needs/ requirements: If the customer chooses to list the dealer as preferred, the dealer can have access to select equipment data gathered by Borg Fleet. This data will allow the dealer have a better understand on what their customer is in need of, and to be able to supply those parts and service needed on a more timely basis.
- Market products and service specials to the customer: A preferred dealer will have specific, detailed knowledge of their customer’s fleet. That dealer is able to market parts and service specials that will be targeted directly to their customer’s needs. The additional opportunities for increased sales and customer service will greatly benefit both the dealer and fleet manager.
“Borg Fleet Linked Edition helps us provide better service to our customers,” said Kirby Carpenter, President, Texana Machinery, a supplier/ dealer signed on with Borg Fleet Linked Edition. “We can monitor their equipment and cut downtime by providing service and parts on a timely basis. Borg Fleet Linked Edition is the most highly developed, service oriented, system on the market.”
Coupling Borg Fleet’s predictive maintenance with the Linked Edition’s streamlined customer service, dealers and customers will finally have a direct connection. Customers can literately forecast a maintenance issue before asset downtime occurs, while at the same time dealers/ service providers can market specials for those specific parts/ service needed and supply them all by looking at one screen and clicking one button. The net effect: cost-savings for fleet operators and increased business for the dealers.
About BorgSolutions, Inc.
BorgSolutions is the leading provider of fleet management solutions that effectively reduce operating, labor and other costs for construction, oil & gas, fleet rental and transportation companies. Its flagship platform, Borg Fleet, empowers customers to easily manage all aspects of their fleet’s operations, and utilizes real-time data analytics for predictive maintenance and repair scheduling, parts, inventory and fuel management, and various otherwise time-intensive, costly tasks. BorgSolutions is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Puerto Rico to service the Latin America markets and Germany to service the EMEA markets. For more information, please visit http://www.borgsolutions.com, or call 1-877-801-8084.
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