Success Story 1 - More doors per
disc!
Prior to selling Acme products, I worked as a Plant
Manager in a traditional case goods plant. We orbital sanded
all door rails and stiles to remove cross scratching and leave a
uniform scratch on both. We had been using a A weight paper back
product from the local auto parts store. And we would sand one
door per disc, at best. The Acme Salesman brought in Acme's
discs and we consistently got 10 doors per disc. Not only did
we reduce the cost of sandpaper usage but the operators spent less
time changing discs on the sander ( and talking with their
neighbor) and more time sanding doors. This
translated to more doors per operator per hour.
Success Story 2 - AntiStatic’s long term
use
In a former life, I was a plant manager of a case goods
plant. We had tested and proved the effectiveness of our
antistatic belts over and above the nobitron and the 4mm wannabe's.
An unintended benefit came after a full year of use of these
belts. Our problem wide belt machine had chronically poor
dust collection that required a yearly service job of cleaning out
the main dust collector pipe that the octopus of tubes from the
time saver emptied into. They had to break open the 4 foot
diameter pipe and it was filled 1/2 way up and 30 feet long.
They shoveled and raked and a guy would crawl way inside 15 - 20
feet to shovel and rake this tube out. After we had switched
to the Acme ARKX belts and after the first full clean out of the
tube, , it was a year before that tube was opened
again. And you guessed it, it was clear from end to
end. The only thing that had changed was the belts.
The antistatic properties that helped keep the machine running also
kept the tube clean.
Success Story 3 - Long life of the Acme
Product
I was running tests of the Acme product on a Wide belt in a
traditional case goods plant.
This machine was a bottleneck in the manufacturing process and they
had it running thru lunch and thru breaks by walking in alternate
operators and trailers’ during those times. They were
using 4mm tri-m-ite belts. They changed the belts 2wice a
day. I brought in the Acme material for the contact drum head
and the belt ran 5 days. A 10 to one swing. I brought in the
Acme Antistatic belts for the platen head and it ran 5 days and the
finished work piece was almost dust free. Another 10 to one
swing.
Success Story 4 - Antistatic tests
Prior to selling Acme, I was a plant manager for a case goods
plant. We had daily problems with poor dust collection on a 2
head 52 x103 Timesaver. We were pretty much resigned to the
process of every 45 mins or so, stopping work to blow out the
machine and clean the electric eyes, because the belts tracked off
and hit the safeties. Improvements to the dust
collection were prohibitive.
A salesman from Acme called on me and described the antistatic
materials and promised improved dust collection. While
waiting to get the belts in, to run tests, Our current supplier
heard about this plan from the dept supervisor and wanted his
antistatic material in the test. Another company heard of our
pending tests and they sent a salesman to ask to join in as
well.
As I said the original nobitron norzon belts ran 45 mins. We
tested the nobitron antistatic and they ran 45 mins.
They brought in their newest generation antistatics and they
ran 45 mins. We tested the 4mm antistatics and they ran 45
mins. We then tested the Acme Antistatic belts. They
ran until the shift ended, about 4 hours. I told the
operators to leave the machine without cleaning that night and the
electric 'locked out' to keep night shift from using
it. The following day the machine ran another 4 hours
and we opened it to see what was going on. there was dust but
it was not enough to block the electric eyes. We began
running these belts from then on.
