Capital Equipment

• Scientific Instruments
• Automotive Test Equipment
• Crystal Growth Furnaces
• Plastic Extruders
• Blown Film Systems
• What makes Capital Equipment so hard?
• Capital Equipment Services

Let’s Talk Capital Equipment

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“The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker”

Kenneth Oakley

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Scientific Instruments

• Electro-mechanical Testing Systems
• Servo-hydraulic Testing Systems
• Hardness Testers
• Shore Hardness Testers

Automotive Test Equipment

• Crash Test Systems (Catapults)
• Vehicle Test Systems
• Rig components

Crystal Growth Furnaces

• Silicon growth furnaces
• Sapphire growth furnaces

Plastic Extruders, Winders and Bag Makers

• Custom Multi-level extrusion Dies.
• Extruders
• Winders
• Bag Makers
• Air rings and other components

Blown Film Systems

• Custom Blown Film systems.

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What makes Capital Equipment so Hard?

• The Cost of Complexity
• The Bull-whip effect.
• Missing a technology shift can be fatal.
• Mechatronics and the need for cross functional teams.
• Equipment Safety and “foreseeable misuse”
• Internationalization for good and bad.

Capital Equipment Services

• 80/20 Business simplification.
• Supply Chain Management.
• Phase Gate Product Management.
• Custom Equipment Project Management.
• 3rd party technical reviews.
• Whitepapers exploring potential design options.
• Machinery Safety Compliance & Incident Services.
• Independent cost of ownership and feasibility studies.