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design allowed Stewart to accommodate its expanding
production requirements.
To successfully clean these cast iron bearing housings,
holding them firmly in place during the full rotation
throughout the entire cleaning cycle was critical. To
meet this requirement, MecWash Systems designed four
different purpose-built holding fixtures that would securely
retain bearing housings measuring several different
diameters.
e Maxi was installed at the Stewart facility in the
spring of 2015. Since that time, it has been cleaning turbo
bearing housings on every shift virtually non-stop.
For the smallest housing, the Maxi cleans 26 housings
on two fixtures per 15-minute cleaning cycle. For the
largest, the system cleans 12 housings on two fixtures
per 15-minute cycle. Across the different housing
diameters, the system can clean an average of 84 turbo
bearing housings per hour. "Because of the Maxi's high
performance and huge cleaning capacity, we were able to
offer Stewart a system that could both achieve its custom-
er's cleanliness requirements and surpass Stewart's desired
goal to be able to clean up to 80 turbo bearing housings
per hour," says Bill Westbrook, MecWash System's North
American operations director.
For more information from MecWash Systems,
call 440-564-7894 or visit mecwash.com.
Here's another article on this topic:
Aqueous System Helps Clean Up the Process
With the right cleaning system, this company was able
to reduce failure rate and rework costs while refining its
production process.
LINK :: short.productionmachining.com/aqueouspro
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