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Industry: Food Packaging

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Q: Why Electro-Mechanical?

A: IT'S PRECISE, POWERFUL AND CLEAN.

Evolution of Technology

All industries are taking a critical look at the way they use motion control systems in their equipment. Where hydraulics once dominated, equipment is now increasingly utilizing electro-mechanical actuators for a large number of tasks for which they previously would not have been considered. Electro-mechanical actuators provide more precise and reliable motion, and integrate easily with modern PLCs and computers. From a complete system perspective, they are smaller, lighter, and cleaner than their hydraulic counterparts.

Proportion-Air will be a featured segment on Manufacturing Marvels ® on February 6, 2015 on the Fox Business Network between 8:30-8:44pm CST.  

"The whole team is very excited to have our company featured in this segment. We take great pride in our finished product and the values Proportion-Air portrays."Brent Archer, Vice President, Proportion-Air, Inc.

The team at Marvel Production Group put together a phenomenal segment that will show a brief highlight of Proportion-Air's company overview and video footage of the manufacturing process.  

Proportion-Air, Inc. is a manufacturer of electronic air pressure regulators and air flow control valves. Founded in 1985 by corporate President Daniel E. Cook Proportion-Air offers a large family of electronic air pressure regulators and air flow control valves that allow you to select the best product to match your exact application requirements.

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Many years of valuable experience in the energy sector has resulted in the development of products specifically designed to meet the exacting needs of this industry. On wellhead and platform installations it is of prime importance that the compressed air or gas supply is free from contamination. Norgren achieves this with its proven range of stainless steel air and gas preparation products.

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Selecting the right valve to control system pressure, direction of flow and rate of flow is crucial when designing fluid power circuitry. Below are the top 5 things that must be considered when specifying directional valves for any pneumatic application.

Dorner Mfg. has introduced new pallet system components for use on its  2200 SmartFlex® flexible chain conveyor platform that provides accurate positioning and routing of parts for assembly, robotic and inspection applications.  The components, sold as completed assemblies or as kits, allow users to implement easy design changes to their conveyor systems, and offer versatile layout flexibility.

Miniature rotary vane pumps are chosen wherever lowest pulsation and/or compact size in combination with high flow at lower pressure/vacuum is needed. Applications are various and can be found in medical, environmental and industrial applications, such as prevention of DVT (deep vein thrombosis) with a portable device, portable particle counters or marking and coding printers.

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In the pneumatic valve world, we often oversize valves for applications. Many times we size the valve strictly off of the port size that the customer wants to use, which can make the valve significantly higher in flow than is needed. This is not generally a problem in industrial applications as actuators can easily be slowed down using flow controls and the oversize situation will never be noticed.

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Dorner’s SmartFlex® conveyors are designed and shipped to keep things simple!  Each conveyor is completely assembled and tested at Dorner.  It is then partially disassembled into sub-assemblies for shipping.  This ensures that set-up is fast and easy once your conveyor arrives. 

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Kallfass Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH has been developing packaging machines for more than 40 years now and sells these machines on international markets.

There are Kallfass shrink-wrap systems for manual, partially-automated, and fully-automated shrink wrapping. The most important features of Kallfass systems: flexible deployment possibilities, short changeover times, minimized fill usage, low cost of ownership, and maximum availability of the packaging system so that productivity is not slowed down or stopped at the end of the production line. Kallfass shrink-wrap packaging machines are used in many industries: printing and paper, contract packaging and fulfillment, the food and beverage industries, the wood and furniture industries and more.