There is absolutely no doubt about the importance of pharmaceutical asepsis in any healthcare-related environment. Whether you are working in a pharmacy, hospital or clinic, sterility of the field is of a great concern and every surface needs to be disease and bacteria free. Bio-Med QC will help you and your staffs achieve that goal with their Asepsis Quality Assurance [AQA] systems. Bio-Med QC is a leader in this industry and a reliable name to partner with for all your pharmaceutical asepsis needs.

Bio-Med QC is a true leader in pharmaceutical asepsis. The brand was founded by Dough Haughs – microbiologist and former director of the Indiana Public Health Laboratories. Having worked as an expert microbiologist for over 40 years in fields related to contamination control, pharmaceutical asepsis and medical diagnostic manufacturing, Haughs has put his incredible expertise to great use by founding Bio-Med QC and creating the Bio-Shield AQA system. Providing certification services and all USP <797> microbiology needs [support, asepsis training, problem resolution, evaluation and interpretation of results] is the goal for which Bio-Med QC was founded. Created for compounding pharmacies, the AQA systems [Asepsis Quality Assurance] designed and developed by Bio-Med QC are truly the top systems of their category. Bio-Med QC is a leader in USP <797> compliances programs and will ensure that your staff is trained properly and that your system and operational processes are conform to all sterility and asepsis regulation.

Bio-Shield AQA is designed to help pharmacies to optimize quality control, solve accreditation issues and assure the complete safety of patients. This microbiology system created by Bio-Med QC is a new and top-notch system that will better find gaps in CSP procedures and also detects contamination easily. Bio-Shield AQA offers a comprehensive solution to your pharmaceutical asepsis needs: complete media test kits, laboratory support, optimized system design and validation [by expert microbiologists], procedural documentation and, of course, timely and accurate results. Bio-Shield AQA also comes with a useful expert support: pharmacist and technician training, technique review, problem resolution identifications and Corrective and Prevention Action [CAPA]. With such a great deal of support coming with Bio-Shield AQA, it is not a surprise to learn that Bio-Med QC is a leader in the pharmaceutical asepsis industry.

Along with Bio-Shield AQA, Bio-Med QC also offers three packages: Bio-Shield AT [personal aseptic technique evaluation kit], Bio-Shield AS [culture media plates] and Bio-Shield SS [quantitative surface sampling culture media plates]. Other products related to pharmaceutical asepsis are also offered on Bio-Med QC’s complete website. For any pharmaceutical asepsis needs, one should turn to Bio-Med QC; its expert founder Doug Haughs has created a brand that understands what the needs of pharmacies are when it comes to asepsis and has put his knowledge to work by creating systems like Bio-Shield AQA to fulfill those needs and ensure compliance to the applicable regulations.

For more information on the complete line of systems and products offered by Bio-Med QC or to place an order, please visit BioMedQc.

The tools you will need to grow and maintain you large garden, if it is an outdoor garden, are a backhoe and tractor, a spade with a long handle, a seeder, and other assorted tools to turn the soil and plant seeds. A movable sprinkler system is useful as well.

If you have an indoor garden, such as a greenhouse garden, you may want to have shelves put in to store your gardening tools. A tall shelf with multiple layers is useful, and will enable you to store potting soil, seeds and fertilizer along with your tools. To reach the taller shelves you will want to have one or two scissor lifts. Scissor lifts can extend up to many feet in the air, and will give you easy access to the top shelves.

Scissor lifts will also give you access to the ceiling of your greenhouse environment to perform maintenance operations on the fixtures which help control temperature and air quality. You may want to hire experienced maintenance personnel to operate your scissor lift equipment and perform this work, especially if your garden is a business, like a flower shop, or if you have an aversion to heights for any reason.

You will also want to hire someone to maintain your scissor lifts themselves, as scissor lifts will, like all equipment, wear out or need replacement parts from time to time.

Gardening is an exciting adventure, whether for yourself or for profit. Please be sure to acquire all the proper tools. For more information visit to our site at http://www.ahern.com

A diamond blade is an industrial tool used in the construction field for cutting hard or abrasive materials like stone, concrete, brick and also for shape cutting different objects and rigid materials. Diamond blades are available on the market in a large variety of sizes, shapes and types as well as a lot of different uses. A diamond blade works by a very simple and yet pretty interesting principle: diamond crystals form the blade saw of the cutter which is held in a metal stand; while cutting into hard materials the diamond blade wears down and at the same time, new diamond crystals are being exposed for use.

An important aspect of the diamond blades is the fact that they do not actually cut into the materials but grind by means of thousands of rectangular teeth forming the blade saw. There are more working variants of the diamond blade: some are designed to cut on dry surfaces especially when they are used on electrical saws but this particular type of diamond blade is endangering for the health due to the dust released and presents high risk when used by inexperienced workers. Most commonly encountered diamond blades are those used in presence of a water jet meant to cool off the surface, the blade and eliminate the dust released during usage.

In the construction industry where diamonds are mostly used, as well as in other fields where diamond blade saws can find utilization, diamond blades are usually grouped into six major categories containing general purpose blades, grinding cups, laser welded, tuck pointers, core bits and other diamond blades.

The general diamond blade group of cutting saws can be used for cutting concrete, brick , block or granite, can be utilized wet or dry and have a good life duration. Grinder cups diamond blades are suitable for fast grinding in stone or concrete and are composed of two rows of diamond crystal segments to leave a highly smooth surface. Tuck pointers are a necessity when it comes to finishing construction works; it is the best choice for routing and cleaning mortar joints. Laser diamond blades are used for a multitude of purposes when it comes to cutting semi-abrasive materials.

Usually, an industrial diamond blade is assembled on an automatic machine with singular or multiple cut-off blades. Before being released on the market for sale, diamond blades must undergo a series of very meticulous verification procedures; when the verification is completed, a guarantee certificate will be attached to the products specifying the cutting operations it can be utilized for and the effectiveness for every material in particular.

Diamond blades are at high request in the hard industry field. Quality products are always most wanted in spite of the higher prices as they guarantee a quality work and a longer period of time before requiring to be changed. A large number of specialty web sites offer for sale diamond blade products for any purpose you may think of. Clients can buy online and save time or place their order by calling the given phone numbers. All web sites dealing with diamond blades try to cover a wide diversity of models and satisfy any request of the eventual buyer.

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Value Added Engineering Impacts Product Marking, Productivity And Plant Safety

Most companies have long relied on standard engineering practices to guide their engineers as they work on product and tooling designs. Recent trends indicate that engineering guidelines are no longer relegated to product and tooling functions. Now many companies and industries are expanding these engineering guidelines to include standards for product marking.

As governmental regulations and market forces dictate new product traceability and quality standards, many industries seek out product marking specialists with which to partner. One such marking specialist is Durable Mecco, Inc. based in Franklin Park, Illinois. Durable Mecco’s focus is on industrial marking applications utilizing impact presses, steel stamps, steel type, numbering heads, dot peen markers, and accessories. Durable Mecco’s technical expertise and engineering capabilities were recently enhanced when it acquired traditional marking products specialist Mecco / M.E. Cunningham based in Pittsburgh, PA. Durable Mecco’s value added engineering capability has proven to be a critical resource for many companies and industries with a wide variety of custom marking applications.

Impact Presses Increase Productivity

Durable Mecco’s impact presses, manual or pneumatic, generate force via the compression and release of an impact spring. High volume repetitive indent marking applications are best handled with the use of impact presses which achieve a very short cycle time that cannot be met with any other marking method.

One such customer in need of a marking solution was SPX Filtran. The part to be marked was dome shaped stamped metal.  It was specified that marking should occur automatically as the part was inserted into a fixture, like a time card in a time slot. The cycle time had to be short, as the operators were processing a high volume of parts. The shape of the part presented two

challenges. First, pressing the mark would deform the part without proper fixturing. Second, the shape of the part required the slot of the marking fixture to be large, so a pinch point hazard needed to be carefully prevented.

Engineering special nesting and fixturing for holding various sizes and shapes of parts is routine for Durable Mecco. To solve this application, Durable Mecco engineers worked with SPX Filtran to create a sliding nest fixture.  The dome shaped part is loaded onto the nest, which includes a strategically placed anvil to back-up the part at the marking location. The

operator advances the nest through a custom-shaped slot that conforms exactly to the shape of the part. Marking occurs when the nest strikes a proximity switch.

The SPX Filtran system also included a quick-change steel type holder, allowing SPX Filtran to achieve a very high level of productivity in marking their parts.

Impact Presses Are Versatile

In addition to marking, impact presses are also useful for assembly, stamping, forming, punching, and shearing applications. Ted Strother of King Electronics found that an impact is superior to gradual pressing in its application. “Durable Mecco was able to recommend an impact press in our assembly operation to insert one part into another without deforming the part. We used to perform this application by hand but the press provides a quick, easy, repeatable solution.” 

Other Techniques

Durable Mecco engineers recommend dot peen markers as an alternative marking technology when the marking application requires a high quality mark but with much variability of information being marked. With a variety of marking heads to choose from, the dot peen technology also allows for sufficient depth of mark to accommodate other processes such as painting and galvanizing.

Portability offers additional flexibility with dot peen marking. Fabricators often times are faced with small batch, unique marking requirements and find it beneficial to take the portable marking unit to the fabrication when the work piece is too large to fit into a bench system.

Don’t Forget Plant Safety

Sometimes lost in the never-ending search for improved productivity is the need to maintain basic safety precautions in all plant operations. Durable Mecco has long been a leader in promoting its “Mecco Safety Tools” in its engineering of marking solutions.

One such recent request came from General Electric to improve the safety of its manual marking applications.  In this case, General Electric hand stamp operators were marking large characters with hand stamps and sledge hammers. Per customer request, Durable Mecco designed its newest Safety First Grip for the stamp which provides improved protection to the

operator’s hand. The Safety First Grip was designed to be non-intrusive while providing the operator with a much more positive grip on the stamp while still achieving a clean, deep mark.

Another General Electric problem application called for three marks to be made on a steel bracket. The goal in this application was to find a cost effective solution to enhance the consistency and quality of the mark while also improving productivity. Durable Mecco engineered a cost-effective fixture to support the part resulting in improved alignment of mark

while also speeding up the marking process. The added benefit of the fixture design was greatly improved operator safety.

Customer Driven One Stop Shop

As marking and identification application requirements have expanded, so to have Durable Mecco’s capabilities and offerings. “A lot of customers use us as a one stop shop and come to us first for marking issues” says Clem Malinowski, General Manager. “More and more we act as marking consultants to help the customer to work through the application and then directing them to the best solution.”

Durable Mecco’s versatility has been showcased as new customer requests have led to an expanded product offering beyond just impact presses, steel stamps, type, roll dies, and dot peen markers. New products include ink jet systems, thermal printers, package date coding type and dies, part marking, tags, I.D. plates, facility signage, and stencils. Durable Mecco has become the “go to” source for many companies seeking marking and identification solutions.