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The Perfect Combo Get Peak Performance From Your Equipment with Matched Component Sets
sumption of compressed air, water, and electricity, as well as additional scrap handling and wastewater treatment. State-of-the-art equipment generally has higher demands on these utilities than older equipment. Can your plant in- frastructure support them, or will additional air compres- sors, water treatment, scrap separators, and balers need upgrades or additions requiring additional floor space – either near the converting machine or at a centralized lo- cation? Now that you have presumably come up with your best machinery layout, have you considered the upstream and downstream plant layouts and infrastructure? If you are a sheet plant, will you have enough truck docks and lift trucks to handle the increased flow of sheets? Do you have sufficient WIP storage and material handling capacity in order not to starve your new machine? Be sure to pro- vide an adequate infeed conveyor. One that can hold only a few stacks of sheets would be hard to supply without in- terruption. Certainly, this is a concern when adding equip- ment, but also consider the effect of replacing a machine with eighteen minute setups and a top speed of eighteen thousand feeds per hour with one capable of four minute setups and thirty thousand feeds per hour. Do you plan to place bottom sheets or pallets under the loads exiting your machine? If so, how do you plan to
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matches between the components that must work in tandem on your exo folder gluers and die-cutters: • Anilox Rollers and Ink Chambers • Anilox andWiper Rollers • Feed and Pull Rollers • Glue andMeter Rollers You can achieve the press speeds and print quality you need to ll your most demanding orders by pairing your team with The ARChitects of Flexo. Contact ARC today to learn how these engineered matches of exo folder gluer and die-cutter components (new or
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