Category: Manufacturing Equipment

In a car garage, there will often be the need for lifting equipment of all shapes and sizes. When you are working with cars and large vehicles, then you will need ways of moving them easily and safely.

Usually, you will use a hydraulic ramp to lift up a car and be able to see underneath it. If you are working with especially big vehicles, or need to leave them there for longer, then you might make use of a scissor lift table. This will be able to support higher weights and will allow you to lift up the vehicle easily and safely. In order to lift the vehicle off the ground and lift it onto the table or ramp, you will usually need some kind of jack. This will often be manually operated and you shouldn’t lift loads with it that are too heavy. Make sure you asses each piece of equipment to see if it is appropriate for your particular garage before buying.

Lifting equipment can involve anything from cranes and hoists to smaller-scale items like forklift trucks and trolley jacks. These allow manufacturing facilities to carry out a range of lifting operations on site, in a safe, streamlined way. Lifting equipment is integral to manufacturing processes.

The main reason why lifting equipment is needed in manufacturing is to do with health and safety. Everything needs to be as safe and as well managed as possible to protect the people working there. If there is an accident, employers will be liable if they haven’t been using the right kinds of practices. Therefore, it’s really important that equipment is used to protect workers from manual lifting.

It is also important in terms of efficiency and will help a manufacturing facility to get more done. Lifting equipment takes the difficulty out of manual lifting, making it simpler and quicker. This helps speed up manufacturing and get more done.

Plasma cutting machines use a high speed jet of hot plasma to cut through materials like metal. They are incredibly quick and produce very accurate results, making them one of the most popular types of laser cutting machine on the market.

Some of the materials that might be cut with a plasma cutter include:

• Stainless steel
• Aluminium
• Brass
• Copper

When the plasma cutter is in use, a superheated gas is used to create a completed electric circuit. The plasma is hot enough to melt the metal, and a jet of compressed gas is used to blow away the molten metal, separating it.

It is important that you are safe when using a plasma cutter, and that you also ensure the safety of everyone else around you in the workshop. This means positioning the plasma cutter correctly, and wearing protective clothing whilst it is in operation, including goggles, an apron and gloves.

Front panels, control panels or fascia panels are all one in the same thing. They are used on some kind of control system to make it safe and usable for operators and anyone else in the surrounding area. The most important part of choosing a fascia panel is choosing the right one, as no two control systems will be the same.

What is a control panel?

A control panel is usually found in a factory or some kind of industrial environment. They are used to control systems and to monitor them as well. They may be designed as a mimic panel, mirroring the area of the system they control to make it easier to control the system. Every one will be different – it is not something that can be mass produced. This is because every system is different and will have its own requirements it has to meet. You won’t be able to find just any system to do just any job. Usually, a control system will be individually designed for the building it sits in.

What makes a good fascia panel?

A fascia panel is so important because it is the front-end part of a control system and is what people see. These are some of the credentials that will make a fascia panel a good investment:

• Quality material. It should be made of anodised aluminium or similar, to give it durability and strength.
• Long lasting. The use of quality materials will help to make a fascia panel more durable and will help it stand up to the tough environment it might be working in.
• Simple. Simplicity is key. The fascia panel must be user-friendly, or it will not be easy for staff to use and operate. It may also need to be used quickly, so it is not going to be compatible with this if it is too complex. Even if the systems it controls are complex, the panel itself cannot be.
• Scratch resistant. The use of strong materials should help make the panel scratch and damage resistant so that it won’t become unreadable or unusable due to damage in the future.

Should control and fascia panels always be unique?

It would be hard to create a standard fascia panel. They need to work with different systems, so this wouldn’t work if they were going to be the same. It is usually easier to build a fascia panel from scratch, rather than trying to adapt something that already exists.

Choosing quality fascia panels

The easiest way to make sure you are getting quality is to go to the right retailer or supplier. They will be able to talk you through the design process, and if it is something you are unfamiliar with, they should be able to give you plenty of guidance. Work closely with the manufacturer to make sure the panels you are getting are going to be of the highest quality and won’t let you down. Make sure you are involved in the process, as the most important thing is for your panels to be representative of you.