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What is Wrench Time in Industrial Maintenance?

ATS

Top-performing organizations, meanwhile, often aim for 50% or higher wrench time, as noted in Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers (R. Keith Mobley and Ricky Smith, 2007). While many companies cant reach this mark, even small improvements in wrench time can have big benefits. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.

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Proven Versatility

Dinesh Mishra

From 2007, he has taken over as Marketing Head for LMW Machine Tool Division and Heads Marketing, Sales, Business Development Service and Application Engineering in his capacity as Vice President. All the assembly lines are dust-free and temperature controlled to ensure maximum accuracy.

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Revolutionising Industry 4.0 carbon fibre wheels

Manufacturer's Monthly

Founded in 2007, Carbon Revolution began with the goal of providing disruptive efficiency technology to all vehicles, with the first single-piece carbon fibre wheel made by hand for a Deakin University Formula SAE race car.

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Myth, Revolution or Solution?

MEM

In recent tests using the latest generation of Viper wheels, Tyrolit were able to decrease cycle time by as much as 30%. Considering consumable unit costs at approximately £25 each (Viper wheel) and machine platform at £150* per hour, a 30% time saving reduction = £45; outweighing the cost of the consumable in one hour!

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Standardizing for speedy turnarounds: Seat belt assembly machine accelerates throughput

Automation Mag

We designed the concept of building a framework around 2000 because customers ordered machines with very quick time-to-market requirements,” Lekx-Toniolo says. In 2007, GTAC discovered Beckhoff Automation, which offered the industrial control and networking technology to make the framework a reality.

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HART-IP simplifies Ethernet-APL transition

Control Engineering

HART-IP was introduced in 2007 to support industrial Ethernet communications among input/output (I/O) systems, muxes, WirelessHART gateways and other instruments and devices (Figure 1). Communications over Ethernet-APL operate at 10Mbit/s full-duplex with cycle times on the order of 10 to 2,000ms.