I received a few emails after my last post on machine guarding and wanted to follow-up… Jason We have an older pneumatic molding machine at our facility, OSHA has not commented on it, should I still add guarding to it? My Response Personally, I would ensure there is some protection to the machine. On most of these machines, there […]
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May 2011
Adding Guarding to Outdated Equipment…
Recently, I was at a customer site and saw a ‘tabletop’ machine from a machinery supplier who is no longer in business. The excellent thing about this machine is that the customer added full guarding around the machine. This was pretty simplistic and inexpensive, but it served the purpose very well and I made a point of thanking them for the […]
What is SCORM…?
I have seen a lot of confusion about this topic… SCORM Compliance According to Wikipedia: Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. Basically, this is not a standard data protocol or format. Any SCORM-compliant course can be played by a SCORM-compliant player. This does not mean the course meets […]
Injection Unit Inertia…
I was in some online discussions lately and this question came as a follow-up via email… John I have an older {brand name} molding machine and it has a very large & heavy injection unit. What is the best way to compensate for overshoot? My Response Once the machine transfers, the ideal result would be for the […]