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Can you recommend any counselors in the Chicago area that have helped you get better?
I talk with a lot of people who have been seeing therapists for 10 and 20 years, and have not improved much, but are paying $100 or more per hour. Is anyone seeing a therapist in the Chicago area, or northern suburbs who you would recommend? I don't hear too many stories of people who went to see a therapist for severe anxiety, and improved enough to stop treatment. I'd like to hear from people like that.
Hi Michael, I'm mostly looking for "personal" experiences others have had themselves with a particular counselor, and not just a generalized list of counselors.:)
I, also, live in the Chicago area, and some friends I know have been seeing counselors for a while, and none of them seem to be getting any better. (One friend still has anxiety problems after 2 years, so why hasn't this therapist suggested maybe some medicine??!!) If I hear any success stories at all, I'll edit my post.
Improved Sieves Boosts Productivity Up To 50% At Chicago-Area Plant
For processing industries, the process is everything. While current processes may be sufficient to keep the doors open today, they often can hinder taking business to the next level tomorrow. Zeroing in on one key element can sometimes be enough to put productivity into overdrive.
One manufacturer of custom color concentrate and additives, for instance, found that it could reach new levels of productivity and growth by turning to advanced sieves of innovative design.
“The new sieves give us up to 33% more production uptime than our previous system with more accurate screening and better yield,” says Jason Yelm, Plant Manager of Accurate Color & Compounding (ACC), a Chicago-area company that provides colorant and additive solutions for manufacturers’ processing needs.
“We’ve eliminated unnecessary re-processing, and spend less time processing each customer batch on each extruder,” adds Yelm. “By essentially automating quality control and enabling operators to multi-task, we’ve boosted their productivity by up to 50%.”
A need for more productivity
As a specialist in precision color matching, ACC prides itself in producing custom color concentrate and additives to customer specification, and has the capability of matching, sampling, producing and delivering colorant in the same day when necessary.
However, recent growth had company leaders realizing that productivity would need a boost, particularly in quality assurance, to grow business to the next level.
Production started with extruders, which pushed out plastic that got cut to size in an underwater pelletizer. The result was cooled with water, put through a drying system, and shipped. Previously, for quality control the process relied on operator inspection and the use of hand sieves on the production lines.
“It was a challenge to efficiently sieve material to custom specifications, including precise densities and different pellet shapes,” says Yelm. “The inspection process was labor intensive and if any product was borderline, the entire batch was re-processed. For the most efficient material processing, adjustable sieving equipment which enabled sieving quality of the pellets to be optimized was necessary.”
Another productivity bottleneck was stoppage in the dryer caused by oversize, which required recurrent die head changes, causing downtime and slowed production.
Assuring quality and productivity
ACC sought more efficient material sieving to assurequality and raise productivity. As a final quality checkbefore drying, Yelm trialed on-site at no cost a 40”separator by Russell Finex a manufacturer of Separators,Sieves and Filters with over 75 years of experience.Pleased with the results, he bought the Separator as wellas six more he’s added to production lines in the lastyear.
“Compared to traditional spring-type sieves, I like the capacity, throughput, and adjustable weight system of the Russell Finex Separator,” says Yelm. “After the trial, it was clear the machine was right for the job.”
Traditional designs incorporate spring-mounted sieves and a custom motor with a pair of eccentric weights at the end of the motor shaft. However, this design lacks accuracy in controlling the force of vibration, which can be imparted to the mesh, and is typically limited to a speed of 1200 rpm.
In contrast, the sieves from Russell Finex omit the need for springs which are replaced by a unique rubber suspension system and use an innovative arrangement that employs a separate vibrator assembly. This allows much higher forces to be put into the machine and focuses the majority of the energy on the screen itself. The infinitely adjustable weight system of the vibrator assembly creates a more finely-tuned and vigorous action, significantly raising sieving efficiency and running as standard at 1800 rpm.
“The sieves vibrate quite a bit faster than typical machines, which helps with throughput,” says Yelm. “Its adjustable weight system lets us screen material at the rate, density, and pellet shape needed,” he adds, noting that changing the setting of the out of balance weights changes how the material spirals on the screen to maximize screen usage. “This allows us to efficiently work with a variety of different materials, which is key since everything we do is custom. We’re optimizing quality, throughput, and yield.”
Yelm also appreciates how the sieves vibratory housing is designed to use a high mass machined casting, coupled to a standard electric motor. With its out-of-balance weights fitted, the high mass casting operates like a giant flywheel, transmitting power into the screening area more effectively than similar sieves fitted with vibratory motors.
“The out of balance weight system has improved our set up and throughput,” says Yelm. “Since each point on the weight system has marks, we’ve kept track of what position works best for what material.
Now it’s easy to optimize sieving accuracy and material flow for different materials, and to ensure a quality process with different pellet sizes.”
The switch to modern screening at ACC has not only helped to ensure quality and minimize reprocessing, but also improved operator productivity up to 50%.
“Because the sieves reliably ensure the quality of our pellets in an automated way, it’s freed our operators from a focus on inspection and allowed them to multi-task,” says Yelm. “They can watch another line, do set up, material handling, or housekeeping, in addition to periodic spot checks. Altogether, they’ve become up to 50% more productive.”
The new sieves have boosted production uptime as well, according to Yelm. “They’ve eliminated stoppages in our dryer caused by oversize and reduced the need to change die heads by 30 to 40%, minimizing downtime,” he says. “By setting up specific mesh sizes for customers, we provide the exact pellet size they want with every production run; and we let runs go longer since we reliably filter out any undesirable sized pellets.”
The design of these sieves can go one step further in increasing throughput by utilizing a Vibrasonic deblinding system in conjunction with the screen. By energizing the wires of the screen mesh with an ultrasonic vibration, the friction between the product and the screen is effectively reduced. In the case of the Russell Finex machines, mesh “blinding” can be reduced down to 20μ, helping to move material through the screens faster.
Though mesh deblinding down to 20μ isn’t currently needed by ACC, Yelm says the capability would be helpful if the company did specialized work at a smaller size.
“In the last year, we’ve assured quality while improving productivity and labor efficiency,” says Yelm. “ACC has grown through the down economy and continues to grow, and the Russell Finex Separator is one of the factors that’s helped us achieve this.”
Russell Finex has over 75 years of experience manufacturing and supplying separators, sieves and filters to enhance productivity and ensure product quality. The company serves a variety of industries in over 100 countries with applications that include adhesives, ceramics, chemicals, colors, enamels, explosives, food, inks, latex, metal powders, paint, paper coatings, pharmaceuticals, plastisols, powder coating, and waste oils.
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Russell Finex assure and enhance the reputation of companies in almost every process industry throughout the world. We achieve this by manufacturing and supplying sieves and filters to improve your product quality and ensure your powders and liquids are free from contamination.
Russell Finex Ltd, Russell House, Browells Lane, Feltham, Middlesex, TW13 7EW, England,
Tel.: +44 (0)208 818 2058,
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Email: enquiries@russellfinex.com
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