Power and Free Conveyor for Painting Automotive Parts Spraycon Inc. is a paint finishing integrator located in Concord, Ontario CANADA and has been in business for over 15 years. They develop and design turnkey systems for spray applications which could be paint, 1K systems, 2K systems or gluing operations. Their typical customers are tier 1 automotive companies. Spraycon Inc. has been one of the first companies to develop and utilize a system that incorporates an infrared ovens for paint curing. Challenge: Spraycon Inc. needed to supply a complete finishing system to handle 25 lb. machined automotive engine parts. The automotive customer required this final finishing system to spot paint their engine parts at 7 precise points where the part had been machined for attachments. In addition, the customer had a very tight layout for this system and a cycle requirement of 1 part per 80 seconds minimum. Solution: PACLINE had worked with Spraycon Inc. in the past to supply various conveyors systems for their paint finishing projects. With no two projects ever the same, Ron Phillips (Pacline Project Engineer) worked closely with Mike Couteau at Spraycon Inc. to determine the best conveyor type and overall design to meet the needs of this automotive application. The required finishing system had 4 separate zones that needed to operate independently: Part loading Spray painting Curing Part Unload Due to the number of processes involved and the layout constraints, it was decided that a power and free or non-synchronous conveyor would offer the best solution. GET MORE INFORMATION Your NameCompany NameE-mail Address Phone NumberCountryIndustry/ApplicationWhat is your application?Assembly LineEmpty Carton and Tote HandlingCorrugated Trash...
How Pacline Measures Customer Satisfaction Give customers a chance to tell you how you are doing Anyone who works to deliver a product or service knows the importance of customer satisfaction. Yes, that is why we are in business – to satisfy the need of a customer who is purchasing our product or service. Making a good product is one thing but delivering it to your customer in a way that leaves them happy and wanting to do business again with you is another. This is what customer satisfaction is all about. It is about ensuring that your customer feels important at every stage of the buying process and with every interaction they have with your company. And there are numerous necessary opportunities for customer interaction in the buying process – from the initial product inquiry on-line or by phone to the various steps involved in confirming the customer need, delivering the product, administering the financial transaction and finally to any service and warranty follow up after the purchase. If your company fails at any stage of this process, you will have a less than satisfied customer which will translate into a loss of business now or in the future. Top six reasons why customer satisfaction is so important: It’s a leading indicator of consumer repurchase intentions It’s a point of differentiation It reduces customer churn It increases customer lifetime value It reduces negative word of mouth It’s cheaper to retain customers than acquire new Understanding how your customer is feeling about their experience with you, your business and your product or service has become more important than ever....
Say ‘YES’ to The Dress and PACLINE! For more than 60 years, the Kleinfeld Bridal Boutique has been making dreams come true for brides to be. Brides have learned that the magic of Kleinfeld lies not just in magnificent stores, not just in offering the largest and finest selection of designer wedding gowns in the world, but in the hearts of the most professional staff anywhere…a staff dedicated to delivering their every wish. In 2014, Hudson’s Bay opened a Kleinfeld salon on the 7th floor of its flagship store on Queen Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With 20,000 square feet of white-washed floors and vaulted ceilings, this one-stop-shop for brides has over 700 bridal gowns, as well as bridesmaids’ and flower girl dresses, shoes, jewelry, lingerie and headpieces. The Garment Conveyor Challenge: During the renovation and re-construction of the space that would become Kleinfeld Hudson’s Bay, Pacline Overhead Conveyors was contacted to provide a garment handling solution for storing and handling the large inventory of wedding gowns and other bridal apparel. The goal for Kleinfeld was to have an automated storage and retrieval system that would maximize the space utilization of the back storage room area of the Bridal Salon. By far the bulk of the 20,000 square foot space was dedicated to the customer area with its spectacular showroom and displays and the numerous oversized fitting rooms. There were only three stock rooms, with a handling area totalling roughly 2,800 square feet. Kleinfeld set out several key objectives for their garment storage and retrieval conveyor which were to: Receive new stock including the constant rotation of Trunk Show gowns Provide storage...
Turning Tires into Tiles and More! Emterra Tire Recycling Overhead Conveyor with Automatic Dumping Station for Tire Recycling Plant Emterra Tire Recycling (ETR), formerly called Canadian Eco Rubber Ltd. is located outside of Toronto, Ontario. Emterra is part of a growing industry that collects, processes and recycles used tires into innovative new products. Since 2009 Ontario tire recyclers such as Emterra have helped create a multi-million dollar industry and thousands of new jobs while diverting over 50 million tires from landfills. Emterra Tire Recycling accepts both used and scrap tires. At their plant near Toronto, about 10% of the tires they receive still have some life left in them which means they can often be re-used before reaching the end of their useful lives. Tires considered scrap go straight to recycling where they are shredded into rubber mulch or crumb rubber and then sold to make a wide range of useful products. Whether they are suitable for re-use or considered scrap, the tires that come to the Emterra Tire Recycling facility are never stockpiled or placed in landfills. THE CHALLENGE: When Emterra contacted Pacline Overhead Conveyors they were looking to improve efficiency in their sorting and recycling plant. They wanted to increase the tire throughput by 40% a day without adding personnel. Here is how their system was operating: EMTERRA had been using a belt type conveyor system to carry scrap tires from the delivery truck to an area above the floor where the tires were dumped into a giant hopper for shredding. One inefficiency in their system was at the truck unload area. Here, personnel were required to...
Overhead Conveyor Automates Electroplating System PACLINE Overhead Conveyors has developed a pre-engineered system for handling the 10 to 12 foot long copper bars used in Electro-Plating shops. This sophisticated design has eliminated the necessity of using hand operated trolleys for the transfer of workloads to and from the hoist lines of plating tanks. The PAC-LINE™ overhead conveyor, using our standard No. 175 Bar Carrier Trolley, can transport loads in excess of 400 lbs. Our special design allows the 10 to 12 foot long work bar to manoeuver the standard radius curves of the overhead conveyor with ease. Loaded racks can be easily transferred from the overhead conveyor to the hoist for dipping as required. This system is designed to allow the transfer of the loaded work bar directly from the hoist to the overhead conveyor. This loading signals the conveyor to run until the empty No. 175 trolley is in position to receive the next loaded work bar from the plating line. The same system applies to the opposite end of the plating tanks. Loaded work bars are automatically delivered to the front of the line of plating tanks. The hoist can quickly pick up the loaded bar carrier, beginning the plating process. The entire conveyor system is synchronized to allow both the empty bar carrier and the loaded carrier to stop automatically at opposite ends of the elecroplating line, so that the loading and unloading of the hoist can be completed simultaneously between the conveyor’s cycles. This proven Electro-Plating system can substantially increase your production and at the same time eliminate unnecessary labor. For additional information on your...
