How to improve the OEE of a production line!

Nowadays, the match among companies is playing not through the best technology used to produce a product but through the EFFICIENCY of the line, thus produce more pieces in less time.

An index that proves the quality of a line is the OEE.

In the following picture, we can see what elements influence the OEE:

Pic.1_OEE Meaning

From the picture above we see that having an established time to produce, what decrease this time determines losses.
Improving this indicator implies improving efficiency and effectiveness, with a consequent better use of available resources and therefore an optimization of production management and a reduction of associated costs.
It is said: "know your enemy to beat it".

The value of the OEE is fixed:

As an Industrial engineer, our Goals are:

1. Detection and analysis of data, micro and macro stop for critical machines.
2. Assessment of the impact on the OEE.
3. Identification of possible improvements.

This work has to be made in order to determine the main problems affecting the OEE and to identify the improvements to the equipment and the organization, to reduce lost times and thus increase their performance.

The main wastes we can figure out are:

Straight on what you can improve in your field and then use tools to rec them.

After time spent on the production line to rec dates, use it to recognize what could be improved. Focus on the important things that make the most important percent of losses ( PARETO docet).

See you next time for a new article!!

Comment below for knowing more and for asking what you desire to learn.

Ad astra per aspera!!

DON'T LET PEOPLE SAY BU.....TS!!

Are you tired of people who talk talk and talk with no meaning, just to appear important? Now it is the time to finish with people whose wants lose your time and thinking.

Being clear is the new horizon, eliminating wastes and keep what is really important.

A project starts with someone who decides which are the actor of the project. The role of a great Engineer/Project Manager is to choose the right people for the right goal.

Leave apart your stakeholder for a moment. Did you find the right team? Yes, every while talks with them to introduce them in your project. Try to understand the level of belonging they have with your ideas and persuade them.

Now it is time to talk with your stakeholder. Being clear lift up you from time wasted. Meeting people who go against you is a classic.

There is always one. But, when your idea is so strong and your team has been prepared, and they can support you, this opposer, after useless ideas and bu.....its will understand your reason and your project will be smooth !!!!

ARE YOU ENOUGH OPEN MINDED??

I come from a small city and I tried and felt different kinds of thoughts. Observing most of the people you can recognize that most of them believe to be Open minded but in reality, they are really not.

How can understand if you are one of them or not? Before going ahead I would like to explain why to be open-minded is important.

Firstly, ask you a question: when a person grows up? Rise great standards? When his mind is filled with new ideas, new changes, new challenges.

For example:

Would you be enough open-minded about seeing if we could work to achieve that amount of money??"  

Look at this question, in this question you can understand that being open-minded means embrace new ideas, new people and new behaviours.

People that hate other ideas, that doesn't understand other and doesn't listen other, preclude the possibilities to get new worlds.

BEING OPEN MINDED!!

As Blue Brothers said: EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY!!

Vox clamantis in deserto!!

THE IMPORTANCE OF A RIGHT COORDINATION!! FRANGAR, NON FLECTAR!!

During your workday, lots of people are good to make great things, are good to have great ideas and are good to not coordinate to reach the goal.

What I would say is, as far as I remember, I met people and teams with great hard skills but, having a wrong coordination might mean not achieve the success. What are the right skills for a coordinator??

1) Staying with people and understand them.
2) Having a great organizational mind. You have to be a programmer. You have to write every small goal to achieve the big one.
3) Having the right to motivate people. This skill, not everyone has it, and it is not easy because sometimes means to get light up a great personality of other people instead of yours.
4) Having an optimistic vision.
5) Helping people.
6) Energize people with new ideas.
7) Know before others. Information is so important to understand the other moves. Pay always attention to the other people.


#Frangar, non flectar!!

EB

WHAT IS A PERFECT PROJECT LIKE??

During my experience, I can say that if you plan all perfectly, something will go wrong.

Obviously, never is like you predicted and planned because there are a lot of variables involved in. When you make your Gantt, especially for big Projects with a lot of companies involved in, how many time is it like in reality? Obviously, a good planning and a good risk assessment help you to solve easily what could be wrong. Thus, focalize on what could be wrong and be prepared for deviations, don't get upset if something is not like you planned.
Important factors are a great TEAM, a great plan and the constant control and tracking of your project in order to control how it is going.

Always be Optimistic!! but with a right safety pillows...:-)

Alis Volat Propriis!!

EB

FORMULA OF THE SUCCESS IN EVERY BUSINESS!!

During my life, fortunately, I lived different kinds of lives.

I have been a student, I have been a lifeguard for a long time, I have been an entrepreneur for two years with my business partner, I have been an investor, I have been maintenance engineer and Project manager for industrial systems.

All of this experiences gave me something that every day I use. They gave me those little secrets to have SUCCESS in all kind of work and business you are running in.

If I could summarize them, I would make a short list to give to whom is reading right now.

This short list doesn't give you an instant success, Like each thing in life, success is made by a lot of ingredients, but this list might help you to start a new life.

FORMULA OF SUCCESS:

- ATTITUDE: Everyday is different and your mood depends on such different things, BUT..Have you ever noticed that sometimes you produce great things and sometimes you can't get up from your bed. That energy is depending on your ATTITUDE. In based on what you think,  you can get things done in the future or you might lose them. Read carefully, try to see you always full of opportunities and you will always have the great mindset.

- LISTEN TO PEOPLE: As I said in another article " If you want to lead people, first of all, you have to listen to them and you have to "listen" their emotions, trying to balance those emotions and get their negative emotions out.

It's easy, start just:

1) Listening to their idea and emotions about something.

2) After a conversation tries to find a common point.

After this two easy behaviors, they have been engaged, and will be easier work with them."

- GIVE CLEAR RESPONSIBILITY: In my life, the reason why I failed and Learnt was that responsibilities weren't enough to clear in the organization. I think that to achieve a goal anyone of the team should have clear responsibilities. If it is not like this, won't be a clear and unique destination. At the end of a period, you have to control how your partner is keeping these responsibilities. Being clear save time and quarrels.

- PAY ATTENTION TO THE BUDGET: Money is important, always, find the right way to save them and to make them grow.

- SMILE Every day: Everyday there is a reason to smile. Smiling improve your attitude and your results. Whatever happens in your life give me a smile..:-)

- LEARN HOW TO SELL: After years of selling ( When I was an entrepreneur I have sold my products on my own ) I Learnt what important this skill is. The first thing: to sell, you need to catch people emotionally.
Making real compliments and find common point is the base to close a deal, then there are a lot of techniques to improve it. Try to be as much transparent and sincere as you can with people and this will pay off.

- CHOOSE THE RIGHT PEOPLE: Creating a great team assures you the achieving of any kind of goal. Remember good persons with an average QI is better than wrong persons with an excellent QI.

-  PERSISTENCE: To talk about it I will take a quote from the movie "THE FOUNDER": 

Ray Kroc: "I know what you're thinking. How's a milkshake salesman build a fast food empire with an annual revenue of $700 million? Persistence"
Ray Kroc speaks directly to the camera in this The Founder movie quote. He talks about how he went from being some low-level salesman to the man behind building a multimillion dollar company, at least how he sees what happened.

And then, the last one:

Amor Vincit Omnia!!!!

EB

Knowing how to listen people!! The way of improving

During my career I studied which kind of skills are important to have to LEAD a team.

I had some problems when I was young, when I was an entrepreneurs at the first experiences and thanks to them I noticed differences in the people behavior  after having had a lot of different conversations.

If you want to lead people, first of all you have to listen them and you have to "listen" their emotions, trying to balance that emotions and get their negative emotions out.

It's easy, start just:

1) Listening their idea and emotions about something.
2) After a conversation try to find a common point.

After this two easy behaviors they have been engaged, and will be easier work with them.

COMMUNICATION is the word of the this time and people pay more attention in the way of communication.

As a great team leader LISTEN and FIND COMMON POINTS.

Emanuele Battista

An easy way to know if your INVESTMENT will pay off!

In Industrial, like in other fields, an important part is made by money.

Everyone has to deal with money matter during a project.
Today I would like to share an important information about my favourite Financial index: NPV.
Before showing an example, I want to explain in real words what an NPV is. It is the acronym of Net present value.
As you know during the time the currency tends to evaluate, that is when the inflation is positive. With NPV we calculate, in base on time, the rate of inflation and other costs ( for example the cost of the money), the value that would have our return of investments in future but in the time that we want ( time zero is when we make the analysis and so the investment).

Wikipedia says "is a measurement of the profitability of an undertaking that is calculated by subtracting the present values (PV) of cash outflows (including initial cost) from the present values of cash inflows over a period of time."
"NPV is the sum of all the discounted future cash flows.
Because of its simplicity, NPV is a useful tool to determine whether a project or investment will result in a net profit or a loss. A positive NPV results in profit, while a negative NPV results in a loss".
I will show an example of how it works.
Imagine you want to buy a new home to rent, just for investment. How do you know the amount of money you need to get every year?
I imagined that we would like to rent a home and at the sixth year we would sell it.
We, analyzing the future market conditions, have to consider a cost of our money ( expected average inflation, if we borrow it, etc..).
If this number is positive, your investment might be paid off. If it's negative, it's not a good idea to keep this kind of investment.

The book is full of pages!!!

For who wants more information, write me!!

Audentes fortuna iuvat!!!

THE STORY OF MY LIFE..And what I learnt!!

Hi everyone,

today I decided to write about my life, without barrier, with no unreal facts, just like what comes on my mind, real LIFE.
I was born in a small city in Italy. When I was young I moved to another city then come back to my hometown after 10 years.
During my adolescence, I studied just the minimum, until something changed my life. Really my life changed in that time.
I thank every day for that day.
A doctor said that I had cancer, some months after my grandfather died. I remember my dad in the car, coming back home, the times were infinite, my thoughts went with no brakes.
I remember that day. I thought about my life and about what was really important in my life, my family, my friends, my girlfriend and especially MYSELF.
I  thought what important was not living an average life. The last time in my life, I was thinking.
Thankfully, I discovered that I had just a disease easy to overcome.
But that day I changed my life.
That day I decided:
To live my life always with a smile on my mouth, my phrase every day is " I'm always good", not because everything is going really good but because I really tried what difficult moments are.
To do Different things and to be energetic. To be extraordinary.
To study to get awareness about my life and the people around me.
To love people and appreciate new cultures and ways of thinking.
What I really learnt is ENJOYING My and other life, because life is one and really can change in just a few a time.
I decided That my life would have been DIFFERENT.
Be excited about what you are living!!!

#ONETEAM

Working as an Engineer is MORE than what you plan, what you design or what you calculate.. it means how you behave toward the workers that you manage.. the PEOPLE around you are so important and you need them IN ORDER TO achieve your goal!!

Everyday I recognize what a great team can create wonderful things!! 

In only one word, What I say every time:

#ONETEAM 

Why is the organization important?

Organization. Simplicity. Clear ideas.

All of them are the way to keep your team focused on the job. Without that three things, they are lost, confused and not productive.

Instead of asking your team 1000 useless thing, go directly and let them have ideas, share it and make their work simple.

All will be so good.

Learning by engineering.

What I learnt by doing what I'm doing

Hi guys, this post is just to share what I learnt in this type of work, up to know. I'm a maintenance engineer.

First, I learnt how can be difficult to achieve, to conquer your position. Every day you fight to became what you want to be. This is the best part of a job...having a position in a company, like in a society.

Second. I'm learning mechanical systems, electronic systems, etc ... In this field you know a lot of systems, you became a master to manage them.

Third, I learnt how the team is important in your success, in the success of a company. You can't reach nothing without a right TEAM.

Fourth, I learnt to give the right weight at the right people, and less at the wrong people.

The most important thing I learnt is Getting the ball rolling!!

Proximity... a perfect detective.

A proximity sensor is a sensor able to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact.
We have capacitive, magnetics, optical, inductive and others.
A typical inductive sensor that you can find in an industry is one like in the following picture:

http://ilabzelectronics.com/Inductive-proximity-sensors

It is a type of non-contact electronic proximity sensor that is used to detect the position of metal objects, you can find in labelling machine for example, valve position control during processing , position detection, etc.

Team...Total Element to Achieve Milestones

The purpose of a Project is reaching the goal assigned.

The matter of a project manager is coordinate each expert of a particular sector to achieve what you want to reach. My mentor always says me..you have the accountability of all and you can't have excuses for what isn't going in the right way. Of course, the projects are different but they have the same modus operandi.

I want to give you my principal three advices.

Important is to have a unified team because it is a bijective relationship, you need them and they need you.

What I learnt during this years is the difficult matter of manage people. It depends on your ability to make them feel part of a group and importance in the same way. What I learnt is that everyone has different characteristics you have to understand them, trying to adapt for bringing the best from all of them. There will be difficult days, doesn't matter but the PRIMARY thing is the COMMUNICATION.

Only with a right communication, you can understand if your team is aligned or not. For me, meetings, when you feel something strange, is a great thing to discharge some stresses that could be involved in.

Second is giving the RIGHT IMPORTANCE TO EVERYONE. All are important, the humans are the key.


My third advice is CLEARLY DEFINE GOALS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

Everyone has to be clearly informed about what is the goal. Remember, more clear is the goal, faster achieve your aim.

In general, I prefer a small group, maximum five persons, easier to manage, studies on project management also say this.

Someone is used to say: "Management is nothing more than motivating other people."

Problem with a Capping machine

MAINTENANCE IN THE REAL WORLD

In the new economy in which the game is not only ensuring the new and right product, in a market already full, the play is in reducing costs, and in this game the players are Maintenance and Supply Chain.

Now we talk about the real maintenance.

We have mainly two type of maintenance. The predictive one and the preventive.

The  preventive maintenance is designed to preserve and restore equipment reliability by replacing worn components before they actually fail. The aim of an Maintenance Engineer is organize the activities, choose the right crew, leading it to achieve the aims.

Facilities, mainly, are the systems controlled and organized by Maintenance Team.

Facilities are the support for production, including:

1. Boiler Rooms.
2. Pumps and valves (   check, gate, glob...)
   
3. Conditioned air.
4. Pipes, tanks and whatever is included in plant, that could be checked.

The simple system used to control them are the check lists prepared opportunely by technical leader.

The frequency and the standards could be done  accordingly with the expert of each sector or in base on the experience.

Another way is using system like thermography,  vibration analysis and visual checking.

As a maintenance leader you organize each activities, internal and external.

You and your team are always ready to solve troubleshooting about machines and systems. You will face a lot of systems: pipes, mechanical and electrical tools, electrical panels, plc systems, hot boxes, various machines for production ( NOT ONLY FACILITIES ), LOTO ( Lock out Tag out ), sensors, proximities, critical equipment, bearings and fire fighting systems, you will manage them. You will be a buyer, project manager, supervisor, planner and team leader...

In accord to save time and money, reducing "Out of service", maintenance is the matter that can increase the capability of a company to increase saving and product more and more, a good maintenance reduce even the work of technicians, always ready to work.....

The challenge is accepted!!

Emanuele Battista

The TEAM is the best way to achieve it...

Remember, a great team with average people is better than a bad team with super intelligent people!!

Maintenance... Predictive yes, but when....

Hi everyone,

In this article I would like to talk about how can mix perfectly production and maintenance. Of course maintenance team is always at work, especially when the production miss.

In that day you have the control of what you want to do. We take the example of the maintenance of a palletizer.

What is a palletizer?  From beverage to tissue, from food to petrochemical, it is always present.
It is  is a machine which provides automatic means for stacking cases of goods or products onto a pallet.

Palletizers

I've done the classical maintenance not during the production, but in a stop period to not limitate it. Obviously we had some problem that we have to face in the next days, because the noise of an a motor might create a lots of trouble for us.

Greasing mechanical parts

So, you decide to do predictive maintenance to save the machine and production too.

Try to do it when the production miss, because you have time to better think about what you might improve and better understand the problem that we might face. I know it's no easy... but we never give up, to maintain the line in a healthy line...

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER

Let's see this video for who want to understand better what the Industrial Engineer does!!

Project Documentation System...

Important EXCEL SKILLS - SUM AND IF

Hi everyone, today we start knowing how Excel works and which functions are important and which are the most used.

1- SUM

When you create a sheet in Excel, an important need is to do a sum. If the number of the cells are wise you can use this symbol:

                               

We explain the use of it with an example:

After you have inserted the values in the columns, for example from the cell B2 to B6, you click on SUM symbol and it does the sum of the adjacent row, or you can select the cells you care and click on the symbol:

Remember, if you don't want to use the symbol you can write in the cell:

=SUM(B2:B6).

In case of the SUM function, you have to indicate the area of the cells, writing the first one and the last one separate by ":" symbol.

The symbol ":" means always 'from....to', and you use it whenever you have to specify a range of cells.

2 - IF

This is one of the function more useful of the Excel. This is part of the LOGICAL functions, because it allows Excel to do analysis, and in base on it to do a specific action among different alternatives.

Excel does the test asked by the user, the test could be a verification of an equality or >/<; If the test is satisfied Excel does an action, in the opposite case it does another action.

To summarize:

1. You need IF when you want Excel performs one of several possible actions in base on what happened in a cell.
2. In the Function, remember to write the cells.
3. If you copy the function IF() in an adjacent cell, remember to block the cells that have to be fixed with $.

We can do an example:

In a table we put sales made by sellers of a company. In based on the amount of revenue, they get 10% if are under 50000$ and 15% if they got more.

We have created a column where we put the values, and from there we wrote our function IF.

For example:

=IF(B9<800; "insufficient"; IF (B9<900;"sufficient","we are doing good")) 

If you follow this way of thinking, you will able to make important and useful sheet that can help you in your work.

If you want more information leave a comment below.

Don't forget to share this article and subscribe to my blog.

Keep the information useful for all of us!!

Emanuele Battista

PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE

Hi everyone!! Do you know the importance of predictive maintenance??


A predictive maintenance is different from preventive maintenance. Sometimes when you are in maintenance team you get a lot of informations from the owner of the machines or systems that you manage, and with them you create your plan for the year. However, it is important to check how the systems are going. Noises are a clear signal that could show you how a system are working, strange losses of oil, the hours of work are all things that you have to control.

So, it is important to have check lists in which you, with your technician, can control the state of facilities that you manage. Bearing, cylinders, shaft, gears are so important in systems and they are breakable.



Knowing how organize as much better as you can means not have big problems with your systems and manufacture with less interruption.


 Write in the comments how you face it. I'd like to know to improve together!!

Engineering team.

P.D.C.A

Hi everyone,

what does P.D.C.A mean? It is the acronym of "PLAN DO CHECK ACT". Who has read the book about SCRUM know it.

But do you think it work?? Of course yes.

The first phase is the PLANNING. Even if you will change it, you need it to understand the goals have to be reached. For example, as a planner in a maintenance field, I make a weekly schedule and try to keep it for all week is hard but necessary to keep facilities and system in good health.

Second step is ..., DOING, is like in life, if you don't do it there won't be a result, in everything in life. Try to do it as much as you can.

CHECK if what you did was right or not and it compliance with what you wanted.

Last but not least, in order to improve ( CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT MINDSET), you ACT to improve what you did. This is the philosophy that a Project manager have to have. You must think to improve what you did, every single time, because only with this effort you can reach great goals.

How can prepare a CONSTRUCTION SITE

Hi everyone, today I will talk about how we can prepare a construction site and the importance of it.
A jobsite is an area where a group of worker work. There are different type of site and each one can have different features.
The main idea to follow is always the same: Separating the work area from other adjacent areas. This reduce the possibility of interference between worker and consequently safety could be guaranteed.

Keep in mind, spend time to do it with each tools.

The following list is the basis for a preparation of a job site:

1. Prepare the permit to work.
2. Inform the owners of the area.
3. Circumscribe the work area.
4. Be easily visible.
5. Using the right PPE.
6. SAFETY FIRST.
7. GOOD JOB!!!!

How To Be a Leader of your team when you are an ENTRY LEVEL - ONE TEAM - COURAGE

Hi everyone, today I will talk about how can lead a team when you are an entry level, probably new graduated. 

I'm young, when I started my career as an engineer, after graduation, it was really difficult to understand how the team, machines, processes were going. I moved from my city to work, I set a new life completely alone to understand if I was able to control my life. So, my first work experience in a factory started alone together with my new life... completely alone!!

I was completely confused. In that case, I was discovering and getting awareness about what was around me.

During this time I started to work with my team. I learnt that if you want respect from your team, you have to give respect to them, in any situation. Respect people is fundamental.
I asked them so many information about systems that I had studied during my course of study. Make questions is so important.

After months my awareness about systems was increasing and I started to have more clear the role of a leader. Obviously, this process is evolving every single day.

I learnt that for becoming a leader you have to be confident, confident in your possibility, even when you are uncertain about something. To be confident is necessary to have a good attitude every single day.

Every single day you have to learn something new and try to become an expert on it.

Make questions if you don't know something and LISTEN !!

Involve your team in your projects for me is a good thing to do.
They need to feel to be part of a project, not just a work, but as a team, and you need someone with you.
In my company always we talk about "ONE TEAM". It is not just a slogan but an idea, a vision.

Be firm. Since you're leading, you're the one that needs to set the rules and boundaries. This part could be really difficult, but with experience and attitude everything you can learn.

Sometimes I use a slogan of Porsche Panamera's advertising, it says " COURAGE CHANGES EVERYTHING", I follow this mantra every single day, because at the end, for doing something important, very important, you need courage.

AGERE UT FORTIS!!

EB

Thermical pump for fire fighting system - HEATER -LET'S LISTEN A THERMAL ENGINE WHEN STARTED!!

Hi everyone, today I will talk about  an element that composed a pump in a fire fighting system.

The pump goes when pressure, in the system, goes under a level and when a jockey pump is not enough to cover this pressure drop.

A pump can have a diesel engine. It has an important element to maintain it warm, to start easily when there is a fire.

The operation of the first minutes is a source of considerable wear to the inhomogeneity of the internal engine temperatures, incomplete combustion, lubrication difficulties, barely controllable thermal expansion, etc.
Some engines intended for particular use and which must always be "ready" to supply the maximum power instantaneously (emergency generators) are always kept warm through the use of electric resistances immersed in the cooling system in the cylinder block, so as to make always provided the power needed without waiting for the engine to warm and its problematic phase of the thermal head-base expansion and piston rod. This device is the heater.

 LET'S LISTEN A THERMAL ENGINE WHEN STARTED AND ACCELERATE...

Principle of Radar Tank Gauging

Radar Tank Gauging Principle Radar tank gauges are "downward-looking" measuring system installed on the tank roof. Operating on the time-of-flight method, they measure the distance from the reference point (process connection) to the product surface. Radar impulses (FMCW principle) are emitted by an antenna, reflected off the product surface and received again by the radar system. The distance to the product surface is proportional to the travel time of the impulse. Due to the nature of the microwave, radar tank gauges need to be equipped with functions to suppress interference echoes (e.g. from edges and weld seams) in the tank so they are not interpreted as level measurement. Radar technology is suitable for measuring a wide range of petroleum products.

PLANNING ENGINEER - KAIZEN PHILOSOPHY

For a planner Engineer is important knowing where jobs come from!! In brief, every day or during the weeks I receive requests of works inside my factory, that come from Production operators, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance (I manage a software that gives me which jobs to do that month, after my initial programming, check list to complete, and in based on requests, I have to decide which jobs to choose ( give them PRIORITIES) and in which days I can put them. It's an hard decision, it is based on:

1. Safety: You have to understand how works could be done. In brief, which tools and which type of work is involved in, for example work at height, hot work, and decide which risk assessment will be done.

2. Worker: In this case you have to consider which technicians are able to do the work, how many people to get involve in, how much time they need to do it.

3. Contracts: You have to have control of contracts to understand which jobs other companies have to realize.

4. Break in event: Leave time available in case of problems that could arise during the day. Important take your time.

    

   Don't forget, try to improve and learn every single day, Kaizen philosophy!! 

   Planning is a matter that improves every single day with experience and awareness.

   

    

    Emanuele Battista

    

MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH - TEDDY ROOSEVELT IN "CITIZENSHIP IN A REPUBLIC"

Hi everyone, today I will talk about a speech to understand  how important is the human value, if you are a leader of a team. We know how difficult it can be to manage activities, I hope this speech can motivate each of you. 

It was from Teddy Roosevelt's speech:

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because THERE IS NO EFFORT WITHOUT ERROR and shortcoming; but who doeas actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spend himself in a whorty cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he falis, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Change your thinking and you will change everything!!

How a pump sounds when it breaks down

Hi eveyone, today I will talk about an issue with a pump of a burner of a boiler.

When pump sucks up fuel oil and this one is not clean, the pump goes under stress and this can cause damages to it, in fact the pump will be replaced. 

So:

1. Use a good filter before the pump.
2. Cleaning of what it sucks up is so important to not damage the system.
3.  If you see oil leaks from the pump, it is damaged.

HOW A FIRE FIGHTING FOAM WORKS

Hi everyone, today I will talk about how a fire fighting foam works.

The system has been projected to estinguish fire in different areas of a plant, for example . Has been realized a system of high expansion foam.

After pumps, usually electrical and thermical, there is a system that mix the fire extinguisher with the water that comes by a tank, for example.

The pipes not contain fire foam liquid and water, but it will mixed when there will be a fire.

The principle of operation of this plant is described with reference to picture indicated above

1. In presence of a fire the sensors inside the areas, give a signal to open to the electrovalve at the beginning of the single line that goes directly in the area of the sensors.This action produce a drop of pressure in the line.
2. When the pressure goes under a value, not supported by jockey pump, the two pumps send water to the system.
3. This water passes into the Premix. This is composed by a tank in steel, in which is contained a membrane where there is the foam liquid. The water that goes into it compress the membrane in order to make get out it

   

   Premix ( website of TemaSistemi)

4. Part of the water pass even through a Venturi Section, in which happen the mix between water and liquid. 





Venturi System. Acqua = water. Liquido schiumogeno = foam forming liquid




5.  At this point this mix going through pipes to arrive at the pourer to deliver the Foam, like this:

   

   

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Electrovalve

 This is a simple way to explain it. If you want share more information about it comments below!!