FINISHING SYSTEM EFFICIENCY
UPGRADES FOR A CAPITALCONSTRAINED
MARKET
BY TIMOTHY KURCZ, DIRECTOR OF SALES, JESSUP ENGINEERING,
ROCHESTER HILLS, MICH.
During this furtive economic recovery, captive and independent finishers facethe need to increase capacity, improve quality, and reduce resource consumptionas rising production volumes stretch a downsized industrial base. This challengeis the result of wholesale market consolidation and continued global competitivepressure. Unfortunately, recently imposed government banking controls limitcapital availability and the option to purchase new machinery no matter howstrong the business case.With many new installations out of the picture for the short term, the toooftenemployed lowest cost solution is simply to increase demand on alreadystressed human/machine resources. This is risky given the operator-sensitivenature of the finishing business and finicky, well-worn machines. A better choiceis targeted investment of carefully engineered upgrades designed to enhanceexisting plating, anodizing, coating, and other types of finishing systems.Jessup Engineering,1 known as a leading manufacturer of programmablehoists and turnkey finishing systems, responded to customer demand for costeffective,incremental machine improvements. Every customer installationrequires careful analysis to fully understand, engineer, and prioritize improvementopportunity. Partnership work teams establish targets, and the customerselects the most cost-effective solution for each machine. Over the past year, thefollowing upgrades achieved specific productivity goals for Jessup customers’existing plant and equipment.
1) An intuitive touch screen industrial personal computer/humanmachine interface (PC/HMI) is the heart of every Jessup controlsupgrade (Figure 1). Available with single-touch toggled bilingual languageformat, it displays system overviews, recipe options, hoist programming, load/unload monitoring, process functions, load tracking,fault diagnostics, ........................................................
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