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Manufacturing chemicals, paint, and similar products is just the first step in getting them ready for market. You must also package the products you produce. This includes canning or bottling the products, labeling them, and boxing them up for shipment.

Filling Cans or Bottles With Your Product

You need filling machines and equipment to accurately and consistently put your products in their primary containers. They need to be chosen and maintained to dispense your products based on their viscosity, whether or not they are intended for use with food products, and other factors.

Labeling the Finished Product

The quality of your label graphics is often a key success factor in creating your brand image and selling your product. Even for industrial products, the product image is often seen on eCommerce sites and part of the initial impression your customer gets about your item. Fortunately, full-color printing has gotten less expensive, … Read more

Two-way radios are so much more than just the walkie-talkies used by curious kids. This helpful tool has evolved significantly since it was first developed about a century ago to now be a fairly advanced, incredibly helpful communication device. Check out this basic history of the two-way radio, which now often include new transmission settings, speaker mics, and other unique features. 

Earliest Iterations

The first forms of two-way radio communication appeared when boats crossing the Atlantic would use these sorts of transmissions to send updates. The teams on boats could finally communicate with those still on land. Interestingly, the distress call sent by the sinking Titanic may have saved up to 700 lives, as at that time, communication was often still being sent by carrier pigeons. Without the two-way radio, rescue boats would have taken even longer to arrive.

In the 1920s, this technology was made mobile for the … Read more

Owning your own personal aircraft can be incredibly rewarding, but it also comes with a lot of responsibility. One of the most important things to do is make sure you are keeping the plane maintained and in perfect working condition. Here are a few tips to keeping your plane properly maintained. 

Keep Flying

One of the things that increases maintenance costs in your airplane is inactivity. If you’re not flying, there is a greater risk of rust, corrosion, and the need to replace important parts. By flying regularly and completing safety checks before every flight, you will be sure to quickly catch any problems that might arise. It takes much longer to update and prepare your aircraft for a safe flight if you’re taking it out of storage. 

Learn Repair Techniques

One of the most important things you can do is learn how to repair your plane yourself. You … Read more

If you’re an elementary teacher, you know how much of a challenge it can be to keep your students interested throughout your lessons. By introducing various props and teaching methods, you can encourage your students to participate, enhance their learning experience and make them excited to learn.

Use White Boards

Individual dry erase boards are an easy and fun way to get more students to participate. When you typically pose a question to the class, you may have some students who always raise their hand and some who don’t. By having your students guess their answers by writing them on white boards, you give introverted and extroverted students equal control over their voice. White boards also allow you to easily judge your students’ understanding and can facilitate class discussion.

Play Games

Educational games are an efficient tool for learning that are becoming more and more popular for students of all … Read more

Many commercial buildings are heated in the winter by a boiler. Unlike a furnace, which produces dry heat, a boiler provides space heating by boiling water to produce steam.

There are many advantages of boilers. They are both effective and efficient at heating a building and typically have a long life. However, there are safety issues involved with boilers as well. Generating the heat to boil the water requires a combustion system. When improperly maintained, the combustion system can cause the boiler to explode.

To prevent an explosion of a commercial boiler, it is necessary to perform maintenance on an ongoing basis. Some of these maintenance tasks must be performed by a professional, while others are the responsibility of the building owner.

Deaeration

When carbon dioxide, oxygen, and other non-condensable gases build up in the boiler feed water, it can lead to corrosion. Deaeration is required to remove these … Read more