WHAT’S NEW IN PRODUCTS

Backside Illuminated Tdi Camera

These coupling are designed to work with Kurt hoses including Tuff and EZ-Bend hoses, marine hoses (KEH & KHT), one-wire braided hose (R1, R17), two-wire braided hose (R2, R16, R17, KT), all size R12 non-skive (6-32), 4SH non-skive (12-24), and pressure wash hose. kurthydraulics.com

Es Series Spring Check Valve

Teledyne DALSA, announce its Linea HS 16k backside illuminated (BSI) TDI camera is in production. This camera offers enhanced sensitivity and is ideal for near ultraviolet and visible imaging applications, and photoluminescence and life science imaging.

Linea HS 16k BSI uses Teledyne DALSA’s charge-domain CMOS TDI 16k sensor with a 5x5 μm pixel size and delivers a maximum line rate of 400 kHz aggregate. Compared with front side illumination (FSI), the BSI model improves quantum efficiency in the near ultraviolet and visible wavelengths and boosts signal-to-noise ratio for imaging applications in light starved conditions. The Linea HS 16k BSI camera uses a CLHS data interface that delivers 6.5GPix/sec data throughput in a single cable. An active optical cable enables a longer cable length, which eliminates the need for a repeater, significantly improving data reliability and reducing system costs. teledynedalsa.com/imaging.

Stainless Steel Couplings

Chemline Plastics ES Series spring check valves feature a PTFE-covered stainless-steel spring for positive closing, and a new disc design. ES Series requires very low liquid head pressure to close, therefore it has more flexibility as to where valves may be placed in a piping system. It also has high corrosion resistance.

Spring check valves include:

Sizes: ½ to 3”;

• Body: PVC;

Ends: socket, threaded, flanged, chemflare;

• O-rings: EPDM or FKM. chemline.com

Qm22 Series Miniature Encoder

Durability: QM22 encoder is built with a fully encapsulated rugged housing that ensures optimal operation even in challenging industrial environments.

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Stainless Steel Ball Lock Pins

Fairlane Products full stainless steel quick release ball lock pins that have a wide range of applications. They will not release until the button on the handle is depressed, allowing the balls to retract into the shank.

The full stainless steel ball lock pins and handles come in a variety of configurations: button, ring, nautical and domed versions. The quick release pins are available in a variety of lengths and diameters from 3/16 to 1/2 in. nominal diameter and five to 16 mm nominal diameter with shanks made from both 17-4 and 300 series stainless steel.

Fairlane Products full stainless steel ball lock pins also come with accessories such as full stainless flanged receptacles, stainless end caps and wire or rope lanyards. fairlaneproducts.com/

Online Configurator For Nozzle Cleaning Stations

Tregaskiss online configurator for its Tough Gun TT4 reamer robotic nozzle cleaning stations. The configurator allows users to customize their analog or ethernet reamer for their application.

Kurt Hydraulics stainless-steel couplings for applications requiring wash downs, are manufactured from high carbon grade 316 SS with high nickel and chromium content, which provides resistance to chemical attack and corrosion. The couplings meet or exceed SAE specifications and are U.S.C.G. accepted.

Available fitting styles include female straight swivel, 37o JIC female 90 o bent tube swivel, 37o JIC female 45o swivel, male pipe NPTF rigid, male pipe NPTF swivel.

Quantum Devices’ QM22 series optical incremental encoders feature a 22mm diameter, providing a space-efficient, high-resolution solution that meets requirements of modern applications in robotics, automation, and more.

Key features

Size: Its small form factor enables integration into tight spaces in a wide array of applications, including but not limited to, robotic arms, automated guided vehicles, and medical equipment.

Resolution: The QM22 encoder series offers resolutions up to 2,048 cycles per revolution or 8,192 counts per revolution when used with a x4 count quadrature decoder.

Users follow a series of steps to configure a reamer model, first selecting the V-block and cutter blade to match the outside diameter and bore of their robotic MIG gun nozzle. Users then select from various add-ons, including a wire cutter or nozzle detect.

The configurator then provides a summary of the selections, along with a part number for the reamer. Users can access downloadable replacement parts lists, exploded view diagrams and more that can be printed, saved in PDF or shared via email.

Accessories (sold separately) can be added such as a reamer stand, anti-spatter liquid and an anti-spatter multi-feed system. tregaskiss.com

Energy Solutions saved EMC members nearly $62,000,000 in the last 6 years!

Through Canada’s largest and only not-forprofit energy buying group for manufacturers, EMC is helping hundreds of manufacturers and processors to mitigate energy price volatility and access savings, driving waste and costs out of their supply chain.

For over 20 years, EMC has offered the WSIB recognition program to Ontario manufacturers. We are a WSIB-approved HSEp provider that will help you along the journey to Health and Safety excellence.

Developed in collaboration with the country’s leading manufacturers, the Learning Centre provides an extensive catalogue of learning options to suit the needs of all employees, including self-directed online, virtually facilitated and in person training.

MRO Pro Tip Breakdown after Inspection is a clue

BY JAMES REYES-PICKNELL

Determining the right maintenance tactics requires insight into how things fail, and the available technologies to identify failures that are in prog ress. Another big clue to a tactic that isn’t working is the occurrence of a failure shortly after you perform an intrusive inspection.

Inspections often require at least partial disassembly of equipment to gain access for visual observations and measurements. Once done, you reassemble and return the equipment to operation. Often these inspections are bundled with other “service” activities like oil and filter changes, and minor adjustments. Some of those activities likely needed to be done (e.g.: oil and filter change), others may not. If the inspections are intended to catch defects that would ultimately result in degraded performance, then instead of disassembling, you can often use one or more forms of condition monitoring. Monitor the equipment performance, or vibrations, ultrasound emissions, and thermal images.

One of the most common types of failure is known as “infant mortality” where the asset fails far earlier than expected and usually not long after an intervention that involved shutdown, cool down, and disassembly. Materials or parts used might be wrong, especially if there was a rush to find something, and errors can be made - by the maintainer (especially if rushed), and by operations when starting back up. Cooling and heating back up (thermal cycling) can gradually loosen fasteners and cause gaskets to deteriorate and fail). Those can all lead to premature failures. If it happens after an inspection, as one colleague puts it, you’ve inspected to failure.

If you experience those failures, typically after overhauls, after inspections, after shutdowns, reconsider your maintenance tactics. There is often a better way to confirm performance and condition than opening up for inspections.