Selection Guide
Choosing an Overhead Crane Light Build or Winch Build
Most crane enquiries name a tonnage. The two questions that actually decide the crane are whether the hook pulls as well as lifts, and how many lifts it makes per shift.
Selection Guides For People Who Buy Industrial Equipment
8 guides: choosing between a light and a winch overhead crane, which thermal profile liquid dairy needs, selecting an O-ring elastomer by fluid, specifying a CIP system that can be defended at audit, balancing a packaging line before you buy it, copper against aluminium transformer windings, sizing a seasonal fruit line, and choosing a jib crane mounting.
Process Guide
Pasteurisation Versus UHT for Liquid Dairy
Three thermal profiles, three different machines and three different distribution models. Which one your plant needs is decided by shelf life and cold chain, not by capacity.
Material Guide
Selecting an O-Ring Material NBR EPDM FKM or FFKM
Almost every seal failure is a material selection error rather than a dimensional one. The fluid and the temperature decide the elastomer, and the size is the easy part.
Process Guide
Specifying a CIP System That Actually Cleans
A cleaning cycle that runs without flow cleans nothing and reports success. Conductivity monitoring, flow switches and return pump selection are what make CIP verifiable.
Design Guide
Balancing a Packaging Line Before You Buy It
A line runs at the speed of its slowest machine, and that machine is rarely the filler. Every speed in this range is published, so the bottleneck can be found with arithmetic.
Comparison
Copper or Aluminium for Transformer Windings
63% IACS against 99% IACS. With both figures published, the choice between aluminium and copper foil becomes arithmetic at design stage rather than a matter of preference.
Design Guide
Sizing a Fruit Processing Line Against Peak Intake
The harvest arrives in a window and does not wait. Every stage of this range is quoted in tonnes per hour so the whole line can be balanced against one number.
Selection Guide
Choosing a Jib Crane Mounting for Your Building
Six mounting types exist because the building constrains the crane more often than the load does. Wall, column, free-standing, articulating, mast and portable each solve a different constraint.
FAQ
About These Guides
Who writes these guides?
We do, from the published specifications of the products we supply. Every figure quoted comes from a product page on this site, so any claim can be checked against the specification it came from.
Why do the guides keep saying what you do not publish?
Because a buyer who knows where the data stops can ask the right question. A guide that fills every gap with a plausible number is worse than useless.
Can I reuse this material in my own catalogue?
Ask us first and in most cases yes, particularly if you are reselling equipment we supply. We would rather your catalogue was accurate than original.
What if a guide contradicts a product page?
The product page wins, because it is generated directly from the specification data. Tell us where the contradiction is and we will correct the guide.
Still Not Sure Which Configuration To Specify
Describe the process you are running and the problem you keep hitting, and we will name a machine and a starting point.