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How is Blow Molding Used in Manufacturing?

Blow molding is a manufacturing process used to form hollow plastic parts. The process of blow molding begins with the melting of plastic and forming it into a parison which is a piece of plastic with a hole in one end. The parison is clamped into a mold and compressed air is blown into it. The air pressure inside the parison pushes the plastic out to match the mold. After the plastic has been allowed to cool and harden, the mold opens up and the plastic part is ejected.

The two main variations of blow molding are continuous and intermittent. In continuous blow molding the parison is extruded continuously and the individual parts are cut off. In intermittent blow molding, an accumulator gathers the melted plastic. When the previous mold has cooled and enough plastic has accumulated, a rod is used to push the melted plastic to form the parison.

The production of large quantities of hollow glass and plastic objects utilizes injection blow molding. In injection blow molding the polymer is injected onto a core pin. The core pin is then rotated to a blow molding station where it is inflated and cooled. This process is typically used to make small, single serve bottles. This process produces an injection molded neck for accuracy but only suits small capacity bottles because it is difficult to control the base center during blowing.

In the injection stretch blow molding process the plastic is molded into a preform using the injection molding process. These preforms contain threads on one end and are typically used as the necks on bottles. The preforms are packaged and after cooling they are fed into a reheat stretch blow molding machine. The preforms are heated then blown using metal blow molds. This process yields extremely high volumes with very little restriction on bottle design.

Plastic jars and other plastic containers typically have an excess of material from the molding process. A spinning knife is often used to trim around plastic containers and the excess plastic can then be used to create new moldings.

Bay Industrial Group specializes in solving complex manufacturing problems. The expert automation designers, project managers, fabricators and welders at Bay Industrial Group are highly trained and experienced to work with a wide variety of industries in order to locate and create solutions to problems in the manufacturing process. For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group today.

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What is Metal Fabrication?

Metal fabrication involves the construction of machines and structures from various raw materials. The metal fabrication process typically involves drawings with precise measurements, the fabrication stage and finally the installation of the final project. Larger fabrication shops are able to offer increased value to their customers by including welding, cutting, forming and machining in one shop. This eliminates the need for extra personnel and the use of multiple vendors for different services.

Typical fabrication projects handled by fabrication shops include loose parts, structural frames for buildings and heavy equipment and hand railings and stairs for buildings. Raw materials used in metal fabrication include:

  • Plate metal
  • Formed and expanded metal
  • Welding wire and welding rods
  • Hardware
  • Castings
  • Fittings

These raw materials must be cut to the proper size. The most common way to cut the raw material is by shearing, but other tools might be used such as band saws, cutting torches, plasma and laser cutting tables and water jet cutters. The fabrication of structural steel by plasma and laser cutting utilizes robots to move the cutting head in three dimensions around the materials being cut.

The main focus of steel fabrication is welding. Formed and machined parts are typically assembled and then tack welded into place. They are then rechecked for accuracy and the welding is completed. Special precautions are sometimes necessary to prevent warping of the weldment due to the intense heat involved with the process. Experienced welders can prevent and remove significant warping with heat that is selectively applied in a slow, linear sweep.

Most fabrication shops have a specialty process that they develop or invest in based on their expertise and their individual customer’s needs. Common fabrication specialties include:

  • Brazing
  • Casting
  • Chipping
  • Drawing
  • Extrusion
  • Forging
  • Heat treatment
  • Hydroforming
  • Oven soldering
  • Plastic fabrication
  • Powder metallurgy
  • Powder coating
  • Punching
  • Shearing
  • Spinning
  • English wheeling
  • Welding
  • Electrical
  • Hydraulics
  • Prototyping/machine design/technical drawing
  • Sub contract manufacturing

Bay Industrial Group specializes in creating solutions to solve the many complex manufacturing challenges faced by manufacturing companies today. Bay Industrial Group’s team of experienced project managers, fabricators and automation designers work hand in hand to find and create the perfect solution for a variety of different industries. Bay Industrial Group’s expert staff works out of a state of the art 22,000 square foot facility. The welding and fabrication shop area covers 15,000 square feet and allows for welding, fabrication, assembly, set-up and testing of large equipment and systems.

For more information about Bay Industrial Group’s welding and fabrication capabilities please contact them today.

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What are Industrial Robots?

Industrial RobotAn industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator that is programmable in three or more axes. Today, industrial robots are used for a variety of different manufacturing applications including:

  • Welding
  • Painting
  • Assembly
  • Packaging
  • Product inspection and testing

Industrial robots are used in manufacturing because of their high endurance, speed and precision. For example, an industrial robot that is about the size of a person can quickly and easily carry a load that is over one hundred pounds. Industrial robots can perform this function over and over again for twenty four hours a day, every day, without failure. Even though they can be reprogrammable, industrial robots are usually programmed once and then repeat the same task for many years.

Typically the term industrial robot refers to a robot arm that is used in a factory environment for a variety of different manufacturing applications. Industrial robots are classified according to a variety of different criteria such as type of movement, application, architecture and brand.  The type of movement is governed by the placement and type of joints and linkages. Industrial robots with different types of movement include:

  • Cartesian Robots
    Cartesian robots can perform three translations using linear slides.
  • SCARA Robots
    SCARA robots can perform three translations as well as a rotation around a vertical axis.
  • 6 Axis Robots
    6 axis robots can fully position their tool in a given position and orientation.
  • Redundant Robots
    Redundant robots are able to position their tool in a given position under different postures.
  • Dual Arm Robots
    Dual arm robots are composed of two arms that are able to work together on a given work piece.

There are three main components that make up the anatomy of an industrial robot; the manipulator, the EOAT and the controller. The manipulator is the long jointed arm and wrist of a robot. It allows the robot to extend, turn and reach. The EOAT or End of Arm Tooling is attached to the robots wrist and manipulates the specific parts of the robot depending on the application that the robot was designed for.  The controller acts as the brain of the robot and provides it’s much needed application support. The controller runs the intricate computations needed to manipulate its EOAT in order to perform its particular functions.

Bay Industrial Group offers manufacturers solutions that solve a variety of complex manufacturing challenges. For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group today.

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How is Natural Gas Involved in Manufacturing?

Natural gas is helping to revive American manufacturing. Natural gas is likely to create thousands of manufacturing jobs as many manufacturing companies build or expand their plants in order to take advantage of the low price of natural gas. Natural gas is an extremely important feedstock for chemical manufacturing and a major input to fertilizer manufacturing.

Natural gas is one of the world’s most important energy sources. It is useful for heating and cooking purposes and can be used as transportation fuel. Natural gas forms below the earth’s surface as a result of millions of years of heat and pressure. Like coal, it was one of the first fossil fuels harnessed for energy needs.

Increased availability of inexpensive natural gas in the U.S. has had a direct impact on many manufacturing industries including:

  • Steel
  • Iron
  • Fabricated metals
  • Machinery
  • Plastic
  • Rubber
  • Resin
  • Organic chemicals

It is believed that the energy revolution is helping the United States to regain its footing in the manufacturing sector. The manufacturing sector has been a critical part of the national economy’s rebound from the recession, especially in the metropolitan areas where employment continues to grow. In fact over the past few years, manufacturing employment has grown by an average annual rate of 1.7 percent. The energy intensive industry has played a key role in manufacturing expansion.

The abundance of natural gas in the United States produces many economic benefits for the manufacturing industry including cost savings, greater investments to expand U.S. manufacturing facilities as well as increased levels of employment.

Today, many European countries are moving their manufacturing to the U.S. in order to take advantage of the abundance of natural gas. In fact, there is such an abundance of natural gas in the U.S. that the capacity is enough to satisfy the existing consumer demand in addition to the new manufacturing demand.

With natural gas and oil more readily available than ever in the U.S., a surge in plastic, rubber, resin and chemical manufacturing has been seen within the country’s metro areas. The expanded demand for new pipelines and mining equipment has also resulted in an increase of sales and employment in steel, iron, fabricated materials as well as machinery manufacturing in the metro areas.

Bay Industrial Group offers manufacturers solutions that solve a variety of complex manufacturing challenges. For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group today.

Conveying Systems in Washington DC
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When Are Conveyor Systems Needed?

A conveyor system is a piece of mechanical handling equipment that is used to move materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful when heavy or bulky materials must be moved. Because conveyor systems allow quick and efficient transportation of a wide variety of materials, they are extremely popular in both the material handling and packaging industries. Conveyor systems are typically at the heart of many different manufacturing operations. There are several different types of conveyor systems available, depending on the individual needs of specific industries. Conveyor systems are utilized by a number of different industries including the automotive, computer, electronic, food processing, aerospace, pharmaceutical, bottling, canning and packaging industries.

Benefits of conveyor systems include:

  • Safely and quickly transports materials from one level to another
  • Safer than using a forklift or other machinery to move materials
  • Can be installed almost anywhere
  • Can move loads of all different shapes, sizes and weights
  • Properly made conveyors have reliable safety measures to help avoid accidents
  • Can be custom made to meet a variety of different needs
  • Improves efficiency

Many factors must be considered when selecting a conveyor system. Depending on what the conveyor system will be moving, it is extremely important for industries to know exactly how the conveyor system will be used. Points to consider include:

  • Transportation needs
  • Accumulation and sorting needs
  • Size of materials to be moved, including weight and shape
  • Where the loading and pickup points need to be located

Bay Industrial Group offers custom designed conveyor systems to meet any need. Their expert team works directly with your company to access your individual needs and help you design and integrate a conveying system that will provide you with the efficiencies that you require. Bay Industrial Group’s highly trained and experienced staff and fully-equipped manufacturing facility allows them to fully test and de-bug all custom built solutions prior to presenting them to the customer for approval. This unique approach minimizes downtime in your company’s manufacturing process.

Bay Industrial Group has extensive experience designing and integrating custom conveyor systems. Their core concept development team has worked together for over twenty years creating custom solutions to a wide variety of manufacturing challenges. Custom conveyors built by Bay Industrial Group include:

  • Drag chain
  • Slat conveyors
  • Mattop
  • Table top
  • Belt conveyors
  • Light, medium and heavy rollers

For more information on Bay Industrial Group’s custom conveyor systems please contact Bay Industrial Group today.

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How Customizing Pre-Engineered Manufacturing Equipment Can Save You Money

Custom manufacturing solutions can be expensive.  Often, they are necessary to get your processes working properly.

What can you do about this?

First, you need to go to the people who understand the complex needs of a variety of different manufacturing and production industries.

Here at Bay Industrial Group, we know that most businesses cannot get by with a cookie cutter solution. This is why we work directly with our customers to create not only manufacturing equipment but rather manufacturing solutions to complex manufacturing challenges.

You need a unique solution but one that uses proven engineering.

Typically we’ll incorporate standard designed equipment into our customer’s project in order to provide them with their own unique solution.

By utilizing proven technology whenever possible, we provide reliable and effective systems in a much shorter period of time. This unique and cost effective custom-designed approach can be utilized in a variety of different applications like floor conveyors and overhead equipment, for example.

Types of pre-engineered customizations.

For a typical design, we use specialized tooling to transform all types of manufacturing and production concerns into reliable and proven manufacturing solutions. Examples of these unique solutions include:

  • Belt conveyors and slat conveyors with attached custom tooling and/or fixtures
  • Monorail conveyor supporting and indexing assembly tools with custom electrification for ergonomic assembly stations
  • Electric chain hoist supporting custom fixtures to allow for infinite height adjustment
  • Simple pneumatic lifts supporting conveyor sections in order to accept and position weld fixtures, allowing the operator to access hard to reach areas
  • Tandem driven screw jacks used to evenly press and/or form long material
  • Light duty crane rails used as guide rails for either vertical or horizontal motions, such as in walking beams and vertical lifting equipment

Some of the distributor products and pre-engineered equipment offered by Bay Industrial Group include:

  • Conveyors
  • Work Stations/Rail Systems/Balancers
  • Custom Conveyors by Bay Industrial Group
  • Custom Equipment by Bay Industrial Group
  • Hoists
  • Ladders/Platforms
  • Lift Tables/Stackers/Dock Equipment
  • Racks and Shelving
  • Work Stations/Tables/Carts
  • Storage Systems/Storage Bins
  • Castors

Our process for designing and implementing a solution for manufacturing and production challenges is comprehensive and highly effective.

How we can help you…

We work directly with their customers from the concept design all the way to the just-in-time manufacturing. Our highly experienced staff and fully equipped manufacturing facility allows them to create prototypes of all concepts and fully test and de-bug them before presenting them to their customers for approval. This greatly reduces downtime and disruptions to the customer’s manufacturing process. This unique approach lowers costs, increases productivity, improves quality control and provides customers with a much better return on their investment.

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Bay Industrial Group Announces the Launch of Their New and Improved Website

PR Web LogoBaltimore, MD (PRWEB) November 26, 2013

Bay Industrial Group recently launched their much anticipated new and improved website in November, 2013. The new website is more user-friendly and easier to navigate with services broken up and more details on each page. Bay Industrial Group hopes the new, easy to read website will fuel site traffic and increase overall customer satisfaction.

The new website, which boasts a modern, clean design, features easy to read details on the full range of services provided by Bay Industrial Group. These services include manufacturing, custom design, automation systems, conveying systems, light duty overhead cranes, platforms and mezzanines and welding and fabrication. The new website also includes an informative blog, social media outlets and other pages devoted to specific company information including their quality processes, capabilities and distributor products.

“We are extremely pleased and excited with the new design of our website,” said Bay Industrial Group’s owner, Jim Brown. “We feel that the new website does an excellent job portraying our business while giving prospective customers an opportunity to learn more about us, our capabilities, and more importantly what we can do to help their business.”

Bay Industrial Group specializes in solving the complex problems faced by the manufacturing industries of today. They understand that with so many moving parts, there is always something that can be improved or made more efficient. The expert designers at Bay Industrial Group work hand in hand with their customers every step of the way to design not only the processes but the equipment that will be put into production. After creating a solution, all of the machines and components are fully tested and de-bugged and presented for the customer’s approval before delivery and installation. This unique approach ensures lower costs, increased productivity, improved quality control and efficient processes, and provides their customers with a much better return on their investment.

About Bay Industrial Group

Bay Industrial Group works with industrial manufacturing businesses to create solutions to complex manufacturing challenges. Their experienced Project Managers, Engineers and Designers use fresh, creative thinking to create realistic and practical solutions that help businesses become more successful. Whether custom designed by their engineers or build to print, they work directly with their customers from concept design to completion. For more information, please visit their new and improved user friendly website at http://www.bayindustrialgroup.com.

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Bay Industrial’s Custom Design Work Capabilities

Bay Industrial Group specializes in the design of custom manufacturing solutions for complex manufacturing challenges. Their experienced designers work closely with expert fabricators to produce custom designed manufacturing systems that really work. In addition, Bay Industrial Group also creates the workflows and machines that help make businesses successful.

After creating a manufacturing solution, all of the machines and components are fully tested and de-bugged so that your business can review and approve them before going on line with them. Bay Industrial Group’s unsurpassed attention to detail and extensive quality control ensures that all customized manufacturing solutions will work right and help make your manufacturing operations as efficient as possible. These custom designed manufacturing systems can help your business overcome even the toughest of challenges.

Conveying systems are often the center of manufacturing operations. Bay Industrial Group understands the importance of a properly working conveying system. If your conveying system isn’t working properly or it is missing key components then your business is losing valuable time and money. Bay Industrial Group custom designs conveyor systems to meet every demand. Their expert team will carefully assess your businesses individual needs in order to design and integrate a conveying system that meets those needs. Custom conveyors include:

  • Drag Chain
  • Stat Conveyors
  • Mattop
  • Table Top
  • Belt Conveyors
  • Roller (Light/Medium/Heavy)

Every industrial manufacturing business has different yet very specific needs. It is for this reason that Bay Industrial Group will often incorporate standard designed equipment into their customer’s unique projects. By utilizing proven technology when possible, they can provide reliable systems in less time that meet their customer’s individual needs. This custom design approach adds value to pre-engineered equipment and turns all types of manufacturing and production concerns into dependable manufacturing solutions.

If your business handles heavy loads, has limited floor space or a work space that does not accommodate a floor conveyor then Bay Industrial Group can address your concerns with a custom designed overhead system. They have extensive knowledge and experience working on as well as designing all types of overhead equipment and systems. Bay Industrial Group’s overhead equipment projects include a variety of different overhead cranes such as:

  • Workstation Cranes
  • Manipulators
  • Intelligent Assist Devices
  • Rigid Fall Protection
  • Monorails
  • Power and Free Systems
  • Jib Cranes
  • Gantry Systems

The experienced core concept team at Bay Industrial Group has been working together for over twenty years combining fresh creative thinking with realistic and practical solutions. For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group.