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Executive Summary:

This white paper addresses the most difficult challenges facing manufacturers and OEMs as they compete to reach their production targets. With their equipment running at maximum loads, how can they avoid breakdowns in pneumatic components? What are the smartest and most economical approaches available to assure optimal performance? Recent advances in sensor technology make it possible to obtain performance-related data from which more informed decisions can be made about the need to replace failing components. This paper analyzes the different maintenance strategies for pneumatic actuators and the role sensors can play in each.

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Challenge:

A customer was looking for a way to dispense bulk food product onto a conveyor. The current application the customer was using to accomplish this process was getting jammed up, and causing long delays to get the product flowing again.

Topics: bimba, solutions, impact actuator, cylinder

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Challenge:

A customer in the medical industry needed an automated way to clean contamination build-up from a sensor eye. They required a compact design that would fit into their machine.

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Challenge:

An OEM required rotary motion to open and close a hopper door. The existing vane style rotary actuators used in the application were inadequate for a number of reasons. Vane rotary actuators often leak significantly, have short seal life that requires frequent preventative maintenance, and have a reduced torque output at the beginning of its rotation.

Topics: bimba, solutions, rotary actuator, Vane-Buster

Wouldn’t you love to look into the future and anticipate machine failure and costly downtime?

Instead of shutting down every summer for a week or two for complete maintenance overhauls just to give your machines a better chance of uptime the rest of the year, wouldn’t it be better, easier and smarter to address the issues right before they might happen individually?

Throw out old Preventive Maintenance and bring in Predictive Maintenance.

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Washdown Solutions

Bimba provides a variety of standard actuation products designed specifically for use in wash-down applications. These actuators are manufactured using corrosion resistant materials such as 303 and 304 stainless steel and component designs with smooth contact surfaces that eliminate contaminant "catch points".

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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.

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