TAKK Success Story
The Problem:
A plastic parts manufacturer began experiencing unacceptable levels of defective parts in their Injection Molded & Metallizing operations. The company had evidence that the increase in defective parts was due in part to extremely high levels of static electricity generated from the injection molding process and subsequent parts handling.
The electrostatic charges caused significant amounts of process-related contaminants and airborne dust to be electrostatically attracted to the parts. This caused several problems in efficiently manufacturing the parts and quality issues after the parts were metallized.
The contaminates caused dramatic and unacceptable cosmetic blemishes - resulting in the need to be re-worked at tremendous direct and indirect cost to the manufacturer.
The Solution:
The manufacturer requested our diagnostic services to measure, document and confirm the occurrences of static electricity in their operations and provide a recommendation for eliminating the static electricity and contaminant problems, thereby reducing the number of defective parts.
We were able to identify the causes and locations of their static related defects and because of the diverse molding machinery and operational work areas, we recommended three different tools - the Vortex, Curtain Air and the Ion-Jet Air-Knife - to meet their challenging static control and part blow-off requirements.
Upon install of our Static Control systems this customer reported a significant reduction in defective parts due to static electricity and contamination - reducing/eliminating part re-manufacturing, reducing personnel resources to manually clean parts, increasing acceptable quality parts and throughput, and improving general operational efficiencies.