Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Whether you are a plant nursery owner, production manager or a purchasing officer, choosing the right nursery equipment for your production nursery is an important decision. The equipment used by staff, if fully utilised and accepted can make a difference to the overall productivity of your business.
More specifically, choosing the right nursery trailer can help your staff work more efficiently and effectively, helping your nursery to grow.
But HOW?
Topics: best trailers for nursery
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
When you want to purchase a piece of nursery equipment, it is wise to consider where it is made. Is it manufactured in Australia or it is made overseas?
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Transformers play an important role in the electrical power industry. Transformers convert power to appropriate levels for other system components to safely use. Transformers need to be maintained to guarantee long life. Moreover, a good quality and clean oil is essential for the transformer to provide efficient performance.
Topics: Transformer Oil Filtration
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Contaminant like water in hydraulic fluids, lubrication, compressor oil or gear oil can lead to some serious problems (eg. machine breakdown). They should be eliminated to avoid the failure.
Topics: Oil
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Shade houses are used for growing indoor and shade-loving plants.It is installed to maximise growing efficiency. Moreover, it protects plants from insects and natural weather disturbances such as rain, wind and extreme heat.
Topics: Shade house
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Aside from water and sunlight, plants require sufficient nourishment grow efficiently. Like humans, they need essential vitamins and minerals for optimum growth. Thus, it is recommended to use fertilisers.
Topics: fertilisers
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Utilising a shade house is necessary especially when you have shade loving plants. It protects your plants from insects and environmental disturbances like extreme heat and strong wind. Apart from that, shade houses also help improve plants’ growth.
Topics: Shade house
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Some product developers may not realise the importance of mechanical design and prototyping when developing a product. Mechanical designers usually create prototypes for visual development at the early stage of product designing. Prototyping is utilised to test and validate human factors, ergonomics mechanical features and aesthetics in the design process.
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
Sunlight is necessary for plant growth. Vegetables, flowers and herbs need sunlight in order to produce their food. However, too much sunlight can dry out your plants.
Topics: Shade house
Posted by Aaron Chen on 03/02/2020
In order to develop a product successfully, most product designers create prototypes for testing. Although porototyping is crucial for product development, a typical prototyping process can take weeks or even months to complete depending on the method used and complexity of the product.
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*[Owner]* An industrial laundry system service company needed repairs and redesign done to their tooling. C-Mac made changes to the tooling to make access and ease of use to decrease service down times.
*[Service Manager]* An industrial fan service company had a failure of a major shopping centre air conditioning fan/ blower. C-Mac repaired the unit within a 24hr turn around for minimum downtime.
*[Owner/Manager]* A major food manufacturer specializing in tomato sauce had a filling machine breakdown. The machine was brought to C-Mac and repaired in 24hrs for minimum downtime of the production line costing $5,000 per hour.
*[RAAF - Warrant Officer]* Airfield support staff required a portable sandbagging frame and requested a design, prototype and trials at no cost. There was nothing suitable on the market i.e. made in Australia. "Sandbagging Frames":materials-handling/1-bagging-equipment#silt-bagging-frame are now on the national procurement data base and some probably overseas at different war zones.
*[Mechanical Design Engineer]* An automotive transmission design customer needed help with designing an automatic transmission gear prototype. We suggested and engineered a more cost effective and practical way for the mass production stage.
*[Nursery Manager]* At an exhibition saw our self tracking nursery trailers and indicated he had a costly issue transporting large (heavy) pots containing advanced trees. Existing method was a bobcat. C-Mac designed and quoted for the manufacture of a Self Tracking “Low Loader”. His comment on the first day of using "Low Loader trailer":nursery-equipment/7-trailers/#low-loader-self-tracking-trailer “Can now move 100 litre pots with trees, 150 metres in 1 hr and not get a sore back”.
*[Purchasing Officer]* A mining design and machining company needed help with machining components urgently as they were too busy to keep up with the demand. C-Mac machined the components so the deadline could be met.
*[General Manager]* Customer had to submit a proposal and compete against other countries for the manufacturing facility. C-Mac submitted drawings to show there was space in existing plant to install the new process and to comply with all Australian OH&S Standards. Working together with customer to submit proposal to the Head Office overseas WON the contract. Project was a success meeting 6month lead time and budget.
*[Nursery Owner]* Needed a specific Potting & Mixing machine. for his yuccas nursery, but the problem was it was no longer manufactured. From his description and specifications our engineers designed and modelled in 3D software his requirements. "Potting Machine":nursery-equipment/3-potting-machines/ was manufactured and fully tested with potting media in our workshop, video was then sent to customer who was very pleased with the results. Machine disassembled and freighted interstate and installed.
*[Maintenance Engineer]* An industrial hydraulic fitting manufacturer had problems with gear and shaft breakages with their machinery. They also had problems repairing and maintaining. C-Mac offered to repair and maintain their machinery on-site instead of having to permanently employ fitters.
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