Author: John Henry – Page 2

Whitepaper: Dry Filling

In previous papers I discussed liquid filling. This month I’ll talk about dry, or solids, filling. There are many types

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Lazy Manufacturing

Are you lazy? I am. I always try to find the easiest way. When someone calls me lazy, I take

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Success Follows Failure

Ever get something just right on the first try? I do occasionally and am always very pleasantly surprised whenever it

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Whitepaper: Piston Fillers

Last month I discussed cosmetic or level style fillers. These fill a container to a certain level and fill volume

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3D Printing and Scanning

I saw my first 3D printer at an H-P plant in 2001. They had printed a fully articulated V8 engine

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Aesops Fables – Tortoise and the Hare

Most of us, when we were young’uns, heard Aesop’s fables. Perhaps the best known is the story of the turtle

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Whitepaper: Overflow Filler

There are several dozen styles of liquid filler available from over 100 US manufacturers. All have advantages and disadvantages and

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Whitepaper: Timing Screws

Timing screws, often just called screws, worms or helices, have applications in virtually every operation that can occur on a

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Little Things

I am rereading Henry Ford’s 1923 book “My Life and Work”. The best book ever written, in my opinion,

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Optimizing Washroom Efficiency

If you work in Food, Beverage, Pharma, or other other industries, you have a washroom. There you wash machine parts, changeparts,

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Measuring the Cost of Inefficiency

You’re buying a new high speed vertical Form-Fill-Seal machine and have narrowed the choice down to two. Overall, they seem identical

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You’re Already Late!

Congratulations! This morning you got tapped to buy the hot new packaging line. Condolences too. You’re probably behind schedule already and

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