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August 19-21, 2008
Adams Engineers and Equipment, Inc.
13638 Highway 110 South
Tyler, TX 75713

PAULSON TRAINING PRESENTS: ProMolder 1 Course

This Course is For:  Anyone wanting to learn the basics of injection molding.

Attendance Pre-Requisites:  None

Course Summary: ProMolder 1 is an ideal class for someone who wishes to understand the basics about injection molding or wants to brush up on the basic fundamentals.  There are no pre-requisites for this class and it will cover the following topics with a written test at the end for certification:
 
• Polymer Fundamentals
• Injection Molding Economics
• The Molding Machine
• Four Primary Plastic Conditions: From the Plastics Point of View
• Mold Fundamentals
• Machine Operating Controls
• Introduction to In-Mold Instrumentation
• Common Part Defects & Solutions
• Injection Molding Simulation

Hands-on Experience:  The afternoon of Day 3 is devoted to letting the students practice what they have learned during the classroom sessions. This strongly reinforces your employee’s training.

Cost to Attend: $1,395 for 3 day course, including ½ day machine demonstration*.
* Discounts available. Any company sending multiple attendees from one company to the same PSM in 2008 is eligible for $100 off for every additional person from the company who attends. Full-time students may receive 50% off the course fee. Certification of status as full-time student is required. Part-time students receive $100 discount with a current student ID. Paulson reserves the right to limit the availability and number of student discounts per class. One discount allowed per registration.  Visit the Paulson website at www.paulsontraining.com for additional terms and conditions or please call us at 800-826-1901 for more information.

*****REGISTRATION MUST BE DONE THROUGH www.paulsontraining.com *****

LaserLinc and Adams Engineers and Equipment can offer you the most cost-effective laser micrometers and software in the industry. Among all of today's systems for laser gauging, LaserLinc is the company incorporating the remarkable processing power of today's PCs. That is why their micrometers are well designed and priced lower.  LaserLinc is also the company offering all the software you need to observe and control your process. LaserLinc software introduces the full range of real-time measurement and analysis data -- including important analog inputs. Easy to read indicators offer vital status data at a glance. By combining the power of PC technology with ground-breaking engineering and software, LaserLinc is the company delivering the total measurement and control system for your business needs.

The Software:

• TOTAL VU: Increasing production efficiency leads directly to increased profits. That’s why LaserLinc’s PC-based measurement system—combining the TLAser400™ Interface Card and Total Vu Software—is delivering such a quick return on investment. By installing one or more TLAser400 Micrometer Interface Cards in any standard PC, you can connect up to 16 laser micrometers into a much unified data measurement system for your entire production line.The best news, however, is that LaserLinc is ready with equally powerful and versatile Total Vu Software to fully capitalize on all this data gathering power and versatility. The quickest way to appreciate the potential power and profitability of Total Vu Software is to watch the PC screen as it continuously follows the actual real-time performance of an entire production process in real-time, user-friendly and easy-to-understand graphic displays. For any quality-conscious, profit-minded observer, it is an exciting show. It also signals where your business and your industry is headed in terms of system-wide (as well as enterprise-wide) production monitoring, cost control, and information flow.

The Gauges:

NEWS FROM ADAMS ENGINEERS AND EUROTHERM

MACO Compact for HT Product Offerings

*Eurotherm has retrofit kits for the Van Dorn HT injection molding machines they produced with MACO 8000 and Siemens controls.

*Each kit will have a standard set of screens and drawings as the package.

We offer these kits in most cases, installed for under $20,000!

A remarkable price for such a simple to use, yet very powerful system.

And don’t forget that Impact Closed Process Control is standard on each system.

This is a vast improvement over the Van Dorn process control that was offered on the machines when sold.

Such product and processing improvements always help to make ROI faster and worth while.

Click Here For the Adams/ Eurotherm HT Mailer 

Click Here For the Retrofit MACO HT Page 

Reasons for upgrading your machine
 

-Better Control
-Tightly integrated multiple processor architecture
-Built-in diagnostics and process monitoring
-16 bit analog I/O
-High performance Ethernet communications
-Patented and proven (IMPACT II) closed loop process control
-24Vdc powered
-Fast Start up
-Reduced cycle time
-Consistent part density
-State of the art technology to high speed updates (< 1.0 Millisecond)
-Three year warranty on control hardware
-Support of existing functions and additional equipment
-Large color touch screen with integrated push button
-Storage of process and mold data on USB memory stick via easy front access port
-Improved process statistics with enhanced trending
-Improved closed loop process control functions
-Multi-lingual screens
 

Less cost for spare parts - long term reliability

***Call us at 903-561-8835 or email us at sales@adamsengineers.com for a plant visit with Adams Engineers and Equipment and Eurotherm***

Click Here For the Adams/ Eurotherm HT Mailer 

Click Here For the Retrofit MACO HT Page 

Yushin has no affiliation with any other robot supply company.  The only place to purchase a Yushin designed, engineered, manufactured, tested and quality-certified Yushin robot is from Yushin.  Yushin spends millions of dollars to research and develop the latest-generations of cost-savings robotic products.  Most of the features and benefits of Yushin products have not been copied or included in those other low-end, inferior products. 

Equipment from a supplier like this may initially be inexpensive, but the lack of service, technical support and critical spare parts can be detrimental to any company’s future.  The molding industry today is highly competitive.  The ability to produce a quality product, in the shortest cycle time, at the lowest cost, is critical to a company’s continued success. 

Please review the attached list for the key features and benefits of Yushin products.
 

CORPORATE PROFILE

• Yushin currently employees 425 employees, over 63 working out of the Rhode Island office.   At Yushin America, they are committed to providing innovative automation solutions that maximize savings, minimize risks and are supported over the life of the investment.

• Yushin has been providing injection-molding solutions for 35 years.   It is their wealth of knowledge that has made them industry leaders for take-out robots, end-of-arm tooling solutions and complete flexible-manufacturing cells.

• Yushin sells products that are tools for production facilities that will be used intensively over long periods of time.   Once they are installed, it is vital that they operate without stopping or causing trouble.  As a result, the manufacturing and engineering departments at Yushin America absolutely refuse to compromise on product quality.

• They are dedicated to providing the very best products possible for advanced manufacturing plants and to providing their customers with a comprehensive support system they can truly rely on.   "Quality determines a company's fate."

• Yushin America provides complete engineering and tooling resources by maintaining a complete staff of electrical, mechanical, tooling and software engineers to solve your specific automation applications.

• Yushin America operates a customer service center that has full-time coverage to answer your parts and service needs.

• Yushin America’s service department operates a 24/7 support network, including holidays and weekends.  It is staffed by a network of factory-trained service personnel across the U.S. with offices in the following locations:

Cranston, RI
Louisville, KY
Noblesville, IN
Jackson Center, OH
Brownsville, TX
Chicago, IL
Birmingham, AL
Riverside, CA
Monterrey, MX
Uxbridge, MA
Detroit, MI
Hendersonville, NC
Orange County, CA

• Yushin America holds over $3,500,000 of spare parts inventory to ensure minimal downtime for their customers.
 

KEY POINTS

Cost of ownership is a most important factor to consider when it comes to take-out robots.  The most outstanding cost-of-ownership burden is the mechanical maintenance requirements of robotic-type equipment.  Robots are very mechanical and work 24/7 at high rates of speed.  Therefore, maintenance will be required, but really must be kept minimal.  The sealed-bearing technology and belt-drive technology utilized by Yushin robots nearly eliminate this burden and is in stark contrast to the heavy burden maintenance requirements of their competitors.

Yushin has taken advantage of these technologies since the early 1990’s.  The design life span of these bearings and belts are over 10 years, nearly double other systems, and our records show the service history to date has been almost non-existent.  Historically, their sealed-bearing technology and belt-drive technology have proven themselves.  The cost of ownership for this technology is remarkably low as they require practically no greasing or oiling.  These technologies were developed based on our own experience with ball-screws, rack/pinions and open-style linear bearings.  Yushin has been through the high-maintenance experience that older technologies employ.  The older technologies offer only short-term reliability with maintenance schedules that demand too much time and expense.

Open-style bearings, ball screws and rack assemblies require greasing/cleaning at least once a week.  In fact, many non-sealed bearings and rack assemblies require maintenance every ~100km or 60mi of travel.  Short cycle times and long strokes can accentuate the need for grease maintenance for non-sealed bearings/rack/ball screw type robots.  That translates to stopping the robot and work cell every 4th day (over 80 times per year). 

An additional benefit of sealed bearing technology is that grease will not get onto your containers.  Grease contamination of good parts is not a concern with the Yushin sealed-bearing technology.

A comprehensive study was conducted between a Yushin RAII-100D model and an equivalent competitive model.  The electrical consumption of the RAII-100 robot model was 2.8 kW.  The electrical consumption of the competitive model was 4.6 kW, resulting in a difference of 1.8 kW.  This difference is a direct result of the different drive systems used.  The Yushin linear rail and belt drive system operates more efficiently than THK standard linear guide and mechanical systems such as rack and pinion or ball screws because of reduced friction.

Before making a decision that sounds too good to be true, please consider the source and the long-term cost of ownership.  Products like this are designed to last for 10 to 20 years.  Organizations offering lower-price products that have not demonstrated a commitment to US operations, could pack up and close the doors in 5 years or less, leaving it’s customers in a difficult position when support or service is needed.

For your next automation project please contact them for a complete project review and allow them to propose a product and a company that has demonstrated a commitment to the continued success of their customers.

Eurotherm's complete HT (Van Dorn) Machine Retrofit package is now available!

MACO® Compact, a Total Machine Control system that can improve processing for any molder, is now available in a special package for HT Series Injection Molding Machines.

As a packaged control system, the MACO Compact for HT provides a very cost-competitive, application-specific, programmable logic control with the advantages of integrated, total machine control.  It is an expandable system, available with different options to meet end-user application requirements.

For More on Maco Compact for HT...

Eurotherm's Process Guardian Software allows a user to remotely access the MACO Compact machine controller.

Specifically, process parameters such as setpoints, values, SPC graphs, and other system information can be examined any where you have internet access.

Here are other important features you can use:

• Flexibility to grow from a single machine to an enterprise-wide system.
• Complete access to plant data including machine and job status.
• Production monitoring, records and reports.
• Data acquisition and direct machine control.
• Real-time, usable information with an intuitive interface.

The use of standard hardware and software in an open architecture permits easy expansion when you’re ready to grow the system.

To learn more on Process Guardian Web-Based software...

Let's Talk About Other Injection Molding, Blow Molding, and Extrusion "Brands" (And Their Need For Upgrades)

Eurotherm has Control Retrofit Kits for nearly every make/model of injection molding, blow molding or extrusion machine ever built.

The following list of names represents some of our past successes in retrofitting plastics equipment to bring their operation to a more productive life.

What does your equipment really need and deserve? Take a look at this list of machines that we are able to perform control retrofits. If your equipment needs this type of attention, we'd love to talk today.

Injection Molding: Cincinnati Milacron, HPM, Engel, Husky, UBE, Niigata, and more .

Blow Molding: Bekum, Kautex, Uniloy Milacron, Sterling, IMPCO, Black Clawson, and more.

Extrusion: Davis-Standard, Egan, Cincinnati Milacron Extrusion Systems, Battenfeld, Welex, Riefenhauser, HPM, and more.

May 12th 2008 

(Pawcatuck, Conn.)--A sophisticated lab line at Davis-Standard’s Technical Center in
Pawcatuck, Connecticut, is engineered to support new applications in medical tubing technology
including higher rates for commodity products and catheters with tighter tolerances. The line,
installed in September 2007, is equipped for research and development processes ranging from
screw design to the extrusion capability of specific polymers, materials such as FPVC, PEEK,
PEBAX, fluoropolymers and other medical grade resins.

“There is a lot of growth potential in the medical tubing industry. We wanted to provide a
means of demonstrating these capabilities while enabling our customers to run trials,” said
Wendell Whipple, Vice President of Davis-Standard’s Pipe, Profile and Tubing Systems. “We held
a seminar last September with almost 60 customers and all comments about the line were very
positive. We are currently working with two of those customers on similar lines for their medical
tubing applications.”

The line features ¾-inch (19mm) and 1-inch (25mm) Davis-Standard HPE extruders, two
melt pumps, a high-tech vacuum tank, servo puller/cutter, conveyor/blow-off table and an
OD/ID/Wall gauge system, all controlled via the Davis-Standard EPIC III Supervisory Control and
Data Acquisition System. The EPIC III control system also has FDA 21.11 technology. The
extruders are ported with pressure transducers for screw design development on smaller
extruders. To date, the line has been used for applications such as single-lumen micro tubes,
multi-lumen tubes, micro-catheter trials, new material development and coextrusion die
development. Typically the line is running one week per month for development for screw design,
process controls and other technology. Currently there are 1-2 customer trials scheduled per
month. The line is also being used for development of tooling for new system orders. This includes
tuning of die and tooling packages while equipment is being built in order to streamline the wet
test approval process.

Customers interested in scheduling lab time can contact the following people: Bill Lee at
blee@davis-standard.com in the Technical Center; Kevin Dipollino at kdipollino@davisstandard.
com; or Wendell Whipple at wwhipple@davis-standard.com.

The Yushin Website Team, working together with Mike G, the Sales Team, and with the kind cooperation of YPE, recently opened a “Yushin Channel” on the YouTube website. Please check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/user/YushinAmerica 

Their channel currently has 20 videos of different Yushin robots, along with a description of our company and links to the YAI website.  We hope the YouTube profile will be an informative resource for anyone curious about our products, and a helpful sales tool.  It is a very cost-effective way to promote our company. If a picture is worth a 1000 words, 20 videos must be worth 1 billion. Yushin feels this may be a great tool to introduce new customers to their products or also can be used to show customers more advance robots and application as they grow with Yushin.

Besides demo videos of robots, they are thinking of other possible uses including a company info/factory tour movie or taped self-intros / basic sales pitches by our regionals.  If anyone has other YouTube suggestions or creative ideas, please forward them to the WebTeam (webteam@yushin.com) by April 11^th for immediate consideration.

Thank you very much, and please enjoy the Yushin Channel!

The Westland Processor

April 2008.  Volume 5, Issue 201

In this Issue:

• Recognizing Wear: Symptoms and Causes of Component Wear
• Measuring Component Wear
• A Strong Preventative Maintenance Program

Please Click Here for the Westland Processor.

Wire Expo 2008 • David L. Lawrence Convention Center • Pittsburgh, PA, USA

EXHIBITS: June 9-11, 2008

INDUSTRIAL. INNOVATION. INSPIRATION. WIRE EXPO 2008.

 A special invitation from your colleagues at: LaserLinc Inc

We’ve got something to show you at Wire Expo 2008 in a city that has evoked the best from industrialists and innovators from Andrew Carnegie to George Westinghouse. And in today’s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you’ll see a city with a new energy that has inspired achievements like the David L. Lawrence Convention Center—the world first ‘green’ building of its kind—where Wire Expo exhibits will be held June 9-11, 2008. Be our guest and use this complimentary exhibit pass to visit us in Pittsburgh. Simply register online and save time in registration lines onsite.

Visit http://www.wirenet.org/events/comppass and use this passcode: LASER6997 for  complimentary admission to the exhibits. Let Wire Expo introduce you to other contacts as well, who will be brought together at The Wire Association International’s 78th Annual Convention.  View the complete schedule of events and full registration options online at: http://www.wirenet.org/events/wireexpo/Attendee.htm

Make sure to visit us at booth: 231

If you know someone else who might be inspired by the Wire Expo experience,

please forward this complimentary pass on to them.

** Register online and save time in registration lines onsite **

Automation for the Plastics Industry

• SPI / Euro Map interface plug included

• Basic Safety Package Included

• Two days install and training included

• Not an introductory offer, every day low price