Tag: Manufacturing
Design For Modern Manufacturing
A diamond maker chooses streamlined design and energy efficiency for Oregon lab.
Facility Executive: December 2021 Issue
The December 2021 issue focuses on HVAC systems, including IAQ, cooling, and equipment. Plus safety, sustainability, and FM Solutions 2022.
OSHA Updates Guidance On Protecting Unvaccinated Workers
Updated guidance expands information on ways to protect workers from COVID-19 in higher-risk workplaces with mixed-vaccination status workers.
HGR Launches Decommissioning Services
HGR Decommissioning Services allows customers to move on to a new project, or transfer facilities, while at the same time recouping a portion of their initial equipment investment.
DOE Selects Five Manufacturing Partners To Validate Innovative Technologies
The DOE's partners will conduct Industrial Technology Validation (ITV) projects to speed adoption of cost-effective, emerging technologies that can help decarbonize the manufacturing sector.
Want To Keep Up With Rising Manufacturing Demand? Outsource Your Non-Core Facility Services
By outsourcing your janitorial and maintenance needs to a trusted Integrated Facility Services (IFS) partner, you’ll be able to get back to running your core business.
Automated Arc Welding Defect Detection
PathPartner, in collaboration with Intel, has launched a very low latency automated defect detection solution for robotic arc welding (GMAW) in heavy equipment manufacturing.
How CMMS Programs Increase Production Sustainability
Full implementation of CMMS programs converts production facilities into lean, predictable, efficient, and sustainable units.
TracStar iSeries Pipe Fusion Machine
The iSeries offers a platform for a new family of fusion machines that maintain the TracStar’s historically rugged, self-contained tracked vehicle while adding industry-changing technology for an improved user experience.
Are Your Workplace And Workforce Management Best Practices Ready For A Post-Pandemic World?
Establishing an updated set of workplace and workforce management best practices that better reflects the profound changes in the way we work will be essential as we roll into 2021.
Energy Department’s Better Plants Partners Save $8.2 Billion
Together, the 3,200 facilities that are part of the DOE’s Better Plants program have cumulatively saved $8.2 billion and 1.7 quadrillion British Thermal Units (BTUs) of energy.
LED Lighting Upgrade Will Save Manufacturer $150K Per Year
The retrofit will improve light levels at WernerCo’s 500,000-square-foot facility and lower the Midwest location’s lighting bill by 60%
Alabama Automakers Adopt COVID-19 Safety Measures
In Alabama, automakers have been ramping up production following the COVID-19 outbreak, with strict new protocols in place to prevent the spread of the virus.
Keep Workers Safer When Transferring Flammable, Combustible Liquids
The dangers of transferring flammable liquids are very real, but protecting workers from harm can be relatively straightforward with proper training, PPE, and engineering controls.
Siemens Works With Georgia Tech To Provide Face Shields
Through partnership with local manufacturers EIS-Fabrico and Underwood Mold Company, the production of these face shields is expected to reach 100,000 over the next month.
STARC Systems To Provide Critical Isolation Rooms
To protect patients and healthcare workers from COVID-19, "essential" manufacturer STARC Systems is increasing production of instant isolation rooms.
ZOLL To Increase Ventilator Production To 10,000 Per Month
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ZOLL Medical Corporation will increase production of ventilators 25-fold over recent production volumes.
Auto Industry Giants Enhancing COVID-19 Protections For Workers
UAW, GM, Ford, and FCA are forming a COVID-19/Coronavirus Task Force to implement enhanced protections for manufacturing and warehouse employees at all three companies.
Friday Funny: A Change Of Heart
Valentine’s Day conversation hearts disappeared last year, but they've been revived for 2020. They're also being custom printed, with interesting results.
OSHA Updates Amputations In Manufacturing Industries Program
The National Emphasis Program (NEP) targets industrial and manufacturing workplaces where employees are injured by unguarded or improperly guarded machinery and equipment.