Case Study: Watch Maker Makes Time for Dust Collection Safety, Energy Savings

As a growing company in Malaysia, a watch manufacturer faced daunting health and safety challenges. One of the most concerning at Micro-Mechanics was the safety and well-being of the employees grinding and polishing their watch components. Buffing compounds, fibers released from the buffing wheel and minute metallic particles were being generated from seven workstations. Read the full case study here and learn how the resolution not only provided clean air for the employees to breathe, but also reduced this company's energy consumption.

Case Study: Sink Manufacturer's Dust Problems Down the Drain

Sink Factory, Inc. (SFI) is a manufacturer of cast polymer products. In 2004, they started their business in a facility that already had a baghouse dust collector in place. However, the volume of dust generated by the grinding and sanding of thr cast sinks proved to be too great a challenge for the undersized collection system. Employees with protective masks worked in an environment of dust laden air and thick layers of settled particulate.

Sound similar to your situation? Read the solution to this challenge and learn how a unique installation of two dust collection booths handled the massive dust loading in this case study. Great photos here.

Case Study: Body Parts Processed with Clear Lungs in Dust Booths

Ogihara American Corporation is a manufacturer/supplier of automotive body parts for Mercedes-Benz. The sanding and grinding operations in this plant caused a dust cloud that drifted across the whole plant, settled on the floor (and everything else) and was swept up daily. Without a dedicated dust collection system in place, workers wore respirators for safety. However, when the air conditioning filters began to require change-out during sanding operations, the maintenance crew knew something had to be done. Further compounding the problem was the limitation of space which the 10 workstations already occupied.

Continue reading of how the solution to the problem was designed and implemented at Ogihara here. If you have an application where a dust collecting booth that encapsulates the dust generating processes makes more sense than a central dust collection system, talk with your supplier about these types of systems.