| A tube-filling machine, more often than not, | | | | help the manufacturer in calculating expected |
| doesnot get the importance given to upstream | | | | capacity of the tube filler more accurately. |
| process line machineries. The user considers | | | | Any variationin the tube quality, its size |
| it a mere packaging machine instead of | | | | and filler characteristics affect output. |
| anintegrated process line machine. While | | | | |
| preparing a project report, requirement of | | | | 3) What is the standard of |
| tube filler is added-on as an afterthought. A | | | | 'after-sales-service' of the manufacturer? |
| ladle isas important as the soup. Many a | | | | Check this up from actual users. People get |
| heartburn can be avoided if selection of tube | | | | pickier whilebuying their six-door sedan than |
| filling machinery is given due importance. | | | | their machinery (tube-filler in present |
| | | | context). It should be understood, the former |
| Steps: | | | | eats-up ourmoney while the latter earns. |
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| 1) Appoint / hire an experienced operator | | | | 4) Now where to buy from? There was a time, |
| and a maintenance engineer. Quality of these | | | | say about 30 years back, when anybody wishing |
| two will ensure optimum utilization | | | | to buy the latest model ofmachine had to look |
| ofinstalled tube filling machine. Will anyone | | | | westward. East was only for supplying raw |
| trust his 2006 model six-door sedan to a | | | | material. Those days are gone and the East |
| hackney coach driver? | | | | has developedtremendously. Consider this - |
| | | | engines for most advanced aircrafts are made |
| 2) Does the filler material require any | | | | in Asia, Ford tests it latest designs at |
| special considerations before and after | | | | Suzuki, |
| filling? Convey its bulk density, viscosity | | | | |
| and otherpeculiarities to the tube filler | | | | Microsoft/IBM and the rest depend on their |
| manufacturer. Collect sealed sample tubes | | | | very sustenance on Asia. Cheaper labour cost, |
| from the non-metallic tube supplier along | | | | higher intelligence combined with itsfamous |
| with certificatestating the temperature and | | | | industriousness, Asia (more particularly |
| minimum time required for tube sealing. Make | | | | India) has really shaken the western world |
| sure the tube has been subjected to proper | | | | out of its complacency. |
| tests for sealstrength. This information will | | | | |