With more and more “Baby Boomers” retiring and the “Generation-X” right behind them trying to find the ever elusive work-life balance, American precision parts manufacturers are struggling to find experienced, skilled labor. As technology advances, so does the requirement for more complicated and precise machined components.
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SSP is excited to announce that we have renewed the type approval of our Instrumentation Tube Fittings (Duolok, Unilok, and Griplok) with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
“Hey, hand me a big wrench.”
“What size?”
“It doesn’t matter, just hand me a big wrench.”
“What do you mean it does not matter?”
“I am going to use it as a hammer anyway!”
This has always been a funny joke, but it illustrates a point.
SSP provides a wealth of CAD drawings which can be beneficial for a variety of projects. The provision of our extensive library of CAD drawings makes it possible to accelerate the design process and operate far more efficiently. Along with helping you to save time, our CAD drawing library also assists in reducing development costs while also increasing productivity.
SSP was recently featured in Business in Focus Magazine. The article, titled, “An American Manufacturing Success Story”, highlighted our commitment to product innovation in response to satisfying all our customers’ needs.
While it's important for manufacturers to continuously strive for innovation, it could be said that in many industries, such as the valve industry, new designs could be “reinventing the wheel.” SSP has disproven this overdevelopment theory with the release of the FB Series—a product line that incorporates all of SSP’s notable capabilities/technologies and so much more.
The 2015 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo will be taking place in Dallas, Texas from May 4 thru May 7.
There are many factors to take into account when running long lengths of high pressure stainless steel tubing, especially larger diameters (1/2” to 1”). The conventional method is to weld 20 foot lengths of ‘stick’ tube together. With proper installation, mechanical fittings can provide a leak free connection. When done properly however, a weld is technically more suitable than using a mechanical fitting, but there is still a potential for leaks. Welding sticks of stainless tubing is also costly due to the labor involved, which includes the requirement of inspection of each weld.
With advances in heat treat technology, coils of large diameter seamless stainless tube can be specially annealed to allow for enough malleability to safely coil the tubing during manufacturing, and permit safe uncoiling in the field. Uncoiling is best accomplished with a special uncoiling or straightening tool.
Intermixing Tube Fittings
In a previous blog, I wrote about interchanging tube fittings. In this blog, I will discuss a more controversial topic - intermixing tube fitting components. Intermixing stainless steel tube fittings means using the components (body, ferrules or nuts) from one manufacturer with the components from another manufacturing.
Intermixing Tube Fittings
This is the first of a two articles focused on interchanging tube fittings and intermixing tube fitting components. Part one deals with interchanging tube fittings. Part two will take up the issues in intermixing tube fitting components.