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Organized work cells place sheet dryers and bandsaws conveniently close to the forming machines. and they can lend each other a hand when necessary. The supervisor and single forklift material handler also can see all the machines easily. For ease of cleaning, the machines are placed well away from the walls and are mounted up off the foor on risers—no pits are needed. While Schut decided that air conditioning the whole plant would be too expensive, employee comfort is provided by four 60-in. diam. ventilation exhaust fans that take the heat and dust out of the building and turn the air over completely every 5 min. CNC trimmers are also organized into fexible work cells. ROOM FOR GROWTH In late 2010, FSI added 6500 sq ft (at upper right of the foorplan) for tooling storage. "Enough storage space is always a problem," Schut observes. Additional tool storage is provided in a plan for future expansion of an additional 37,500 ft 2 (p. 39). This would allow for another plant reconfguration that would segregate the forming and CNC trimming areas and replace the current racetrack design with a linear fow-through production plan in which materials and products move from receiving docks on the East side of the building through forming and then trimming, and then out through shipping docks on the West side. Process systems for the plastics/petrochem industry worldwide Schenck AccuRate/Mac Process. Your global source for weighing, feeding, dust collection, and pneumatic conveying. For dry material weighing, feeding, continuous dense phase conveying, dilute phase conveying, and dust collection for plastics/ petrochem applications, Schenck AccuRate and Mac Process are the preferred names in the industry. Today, joined together as one Schenck Process family company, you can obtain an engineered system with our award winning feeders, airlocks, weighbelts, dust collectors, process controls, and pneumatic conveying equipment from a single source. Our state-of-the-art test centers can confirm the perfect system for your specific application. Contact us for more details or to request a quote. For weighing and feeding inquiries contact: Schenck AccuRate Phone: 262-473-2441 E-mail: mktg@sarinc.com Web site: www.accuratefeeders.com For pneumatic conveying and dust collection inquiries contact: Mac Process Phone: 888-657-3098 E-mail: sales@macprocessinc.com Web site: www.macprocessinc.com Plastics technology february 2013 41