A while back, I had the pleasure of assisting a customer with selection and implementation of our Super Air Nozzles, to replace open-ended blow offs on their machine tools. They installed the Super Air Nozzles after shutdown one afternoon. When he came in to work the next day (he arrived after production started), he thought there was a major problem in the shop, because (as they say in the movies right before something bad happens) “it was quiet…too quiet.” Turns out that, even though the goal was to reduce air consumption, they also reduced the sound level of the blow offs to an unexpected degree.
Another time, a metal stamping plant tried out our Model 1122 2″ Flat Super Air Nozzle on a stamping machine, using a Stay Set Hose to replace the copper tubing that was used to eject parts from the platen. They did the switch in the middle of the day…the operator at the adjacent machine noticed the dramatic noise level drop and came over to see what was wrong. Then he asked when they were getting one for HIS machine.
Both of these solutions originated with calls to discuss ways to reduce compressed air consumption costs. The fact that noise levels went down so dramatically just added to the benefits of using engineered compressed air products from EXAIR. If you’d like to find out how to make your electric bill – and your shop noise level – go down, give me a call.
Russ Bowman, CCASS
Application Engineer
EXAIR Corporation
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