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Glass Open Book © 2018
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MAINTENANCE
DISMATEC
Assistance
The assets of the glass production process are a significant and important investment of an organisation and should command care and attention throughout their life cycle. This care and attention is best realised by adopting a strategic maintenance plan guided by health checks in the form of scheduled audits carried out by DISMATEC.
Furnace Refractory Structure Auditing
DISMATEC
Assistance
After the completion of a furnace construction, it is important to monitor the condition of the furnace refractory structure on a scheduled basis over the total furnace campaign period. This monitoring provides a pro-active approach towards identifying potential problem areas of the furnace refractory structure for both the immediate time and the future, therefore, minimising the possibility of major structural problems or catastrophes occurring and extending the designed furnace campaign life.
CONSULTANCY
DISMATEC
Assistance
DISMATEC provide consultancy services from the project concept through to glass production and include troubleshooting unforeseen problems.
Hot Furnace Repair
DISMATEC
Assistance
During the period of a furnace campaign life, it is most likely that hot repairs to the furnace refractory structure will be required.
Hot repairs fall into several categories, including; general maintenance, planned, emergency and work contributing towards an extended designed furnace campaign life.
Hot repairs fall into several categories, including; general maintenance, planned, emergency and work contributing towards an extended designed furnace campaign life.
Premium Bottle Design
APEGG - Glass Experts
Design
This Premium Bottle Design service is for Brand Owners who are looking to have a premium glass packaging for their product. Our team is ready to take your dream or vision and come up with a bottle design that will blow your mind. We will design the bottle for you.
Mould Inspection Training
APEGG - Glass Experts
Training
All mould equipment used on an IS machine must be 100% inspected to enable successful glass container production. This training course is about what and how to inspect the different mould equipment parts, before, during and after a production run.
Forming Defects Training
APEGG - Glass Experts
Training
Forming defects must be avoided during glass container production. The production and quality team must know how to handle defects by understanding how to inspect a container for defects, and finally how to fix it. This training course covers the fundamental knowledge about glass container forming defects.
Forming Process Training
APEGG - Glass Experts
Training
There are different forming processes and each of them has its defined stages. This course deals with the fundamental principles of each process (BB, NNPB & PB), and the influence the heat exchange has on the glass. The forming process selection for a bottle and jar will be discussed.
Mould Design Review
APEGG - Glass Experts
Assistance
This is a unique trouble shoot service offered by APEGG, to assist glass manufacturers to understand why production is not able to reach a high quality and efficiency level. By analysing the parison layout, mould equipment drawings together with the quality report, and machine set-up parameters APEGG can advise the customer what is possibly wrong on the design or machine set-up.
NNPB Introduction
APEGG - Glass Experts
Assistance
This service if for glass manufacturers who are considering to produce bottles with the NNPB forming process for the first time. APEGG make the NNPB forming process introduction easy, by ensuring that the glass producer is having the right know-how and technology.
Light Weighting
APEGG - Glass Experts
Design
Producing a container at its optimal weight capacity ratio is essential when looking at manufacturing costs and consumer benefits. For the food and beverage industry it is often required to have a packaging that is light, so the consumer does not have to carry heavy bottles or jars. The APEGG 7-step principal makes light weighting an easy task.
Mould Design
APEGG - Glass Experts
Design
The APEGG mould design service is for brand owners and glass manufacturers, this service covers the creation of a container specification, parison layout, and mould equipment manufacturing drawings. Companies who are looking for new design ideas are welcome to challenge our design team.
Mould Repair Training
APEGG - Glass Experts
Training
The mould equipment must be repaired during and after a production run to a high standard, as this will ensure a stable production and reduces forming defects. This training course is about mould equipment repair, covering all the different aspects, such as welding, turning and polishing.
Gob Forming Training
APEGG - Glass Experts
Training
The gob influences the container quality by up to 90%, without the “perfect gob” it is not possible to produce the “perfect container”. This course deals with the fundamental principles of gob formation, starting from the orifice ring size right through to all feeder parameters and glass temperature.
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Installation instruction
Follow the simple steps below
Step 1. Launch the GOB Installer
- Click on the downloaded gob_installer.exe file
Step 2. Start installation
- Click "Run" in the Security Warning window
Step 3. Install the App
- Accept the terms of the License Agreement then click the "Start" button