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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Photo courtesy ECC Controls of Illinois Inc. starts keeping them as close as possible to eliminate wasted energy. We are able to see temperature and humidity information for the environmental room that helps our building maintenance personnel correct any HVAC issues early on,” he adds. Keeping Mother Earth Fit One of the key components of Cybex’s new powder line installation was a water treatment system that provides RO water to its paint line washer and its fabrication department for their clean water needs. “The improved water quality going into our processes helps us maintain the equipment longer between necessary maintenance dump cycles and improves the chemical life,” Stilwagon says. The water treatment system also treats any remaining run-off water from the paint line, run-off water is routed back to the system and treated to meet the city codes before discharging. He adds, “Our paint line washer is designed to allow the rinse stages to counter flow back to the previous rinse stage instead of overflowing each tank to discharge in order to keep the stages clean and overflow is limited to stage 3, which is discharged to the wastewater treatment system. The CPQ3000 system has enhanced this process by monitoring the water quality in the rinse stages and controlling the counter flow valves and fresh RO water additions.” In the development stages of the finishing line, Stilwagon says they Powder Coated Tough By scanning the part number into the CPQ3000 when parts are loaded on the line, the system tracks and records key parameters during that part's processing. in some cases” he says. Stilwagon continues, “The PowderTrak controls in our Excel booth have allowed us to maintain the quality of the powder paint by controlling the reclaim to virgin powder ratio better. This improves our application transfer efficiencies and has helped us reduce our scrap powder costs by about $4,000 annually.” By utilizing the data collected 18 by the CPQ3000 Cybex is able to review several things which help them to keep their utilities in check. “We can see the fresh water addition sequences in the washer; significant changes may prompt us into identifying a problem early on to allow corrections to avoid wasting water. We have utilized the ovens temperature graphs to help us coordinate the oven start-up times for shift

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Powder Coated Tough - Spring 2009 Contents Stay Plugged In Powder Perspective Powder: A Fit Finish A Taste of Coating West 2009 Marking the Mark: Necessity Brings Powder In-House Custom Coasters Corner: Dialing Up Its Own Software Solution Tough Talk Talbert's Technical Corner

Powder Coated Tough - Spring 2009

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