Preserve and Protect Your Investments.
Today, more than ever before, manufacturers want to preserve and protect their investment in the machine tools and the metalworking fluids they use in their processes. Creating a competitive advantage for their company with SmartSkim® products makes sense and cents.
Quality control, environmental regulations, hazardous waste, disposal cost, maintenance cost and raw material costs are among the key concerns of any professional business. The industry needs solutions that work! SmartSkim® can be your partner in meeting these goals.
Key Benefits that SmartSkim® brings to your facility:
Key Benefits
Fluid Purchase Reduction
Disposal Cost Reduction
Cleaner & Safer Working Environment
Extended Tooling Life
Fluid Purchase Reduction
- SmartSkim can help you reduce your cost of new fluid purchases by 45 to 75 percent.
- Continual rising of coolant and cleaner prices due to increased raw material, manufacturing, and transportation costs
- EPA restrictions placed on manufacturers regarding components, packaging, and labeling has increased costs dramatically.
Disposal Cost Reduction
- Costs associated with proper disposal are increasing substantially.
- Eliminate environmental risks of off site disposal
- Risk Avoidance – immeasurable cost of liability
- SmartSkim can help you reduce the cost of fluid disposal by 50 to 90 percent
Cleaner & Safer Working Environment
- Safeguarding worker health & safety
Reduce oil smoke & mists from the workplace by removing tramp oils and small fines that contaminate machine coolants and parts washing solutions and can lead to:- Dermatitis
- Bronchial irritation from coolant mists
- Odors
- Oil mists which end up on the floors, creates dirty machine tools, etc.
- Also benefit by:
Minimizing the smoke in heat treat departments that require expensive smoke remediation equipment
Minimize chance of fires in heat treat departments
Extended Tooling Life
- Improving tool life and product quality
- Although hard to quantify, some studies have shown increases in tool life up to 209%
- Another study showed at an average tramp oil concentration of 3.9% resulted in an 18% tool life reduction.
Environmentally Friendly
- Helps with ISO 14000 goals
- By recycling your fluids you reduce dramatically the consumption of new virgin products such as coolants and cleaners.
- Since water is 90% - 95% of the make up of your coolants and cleaners, water usage in your facility is decreased which impacts our environment in a positive way
- By cutting your waste disposal by as much as 90%, you reduce the use of landfills and/or energy required to operate your on site waste treatment process
- SmartSkim products are engineered to use as little energy as possible. Air pumps require only 1 – 2 SCFM of air.
Quality
- Improvements in surface finishes and product quality
- Clean coolants and parts washing chemicals assists with the consistency of the process
- Helps support quality programs like Six Sigma, Kaizen, etc.
Increased uptime and labor savings
- Because parts washer bath life is typically increased by 2 – 10 times valuable time is not spent “pumping and dumping” washers.
- Sump Cleaners reduce the time it takes to clean out a machine tool sump from several hours to 15 – 20 minutes
- Longer tool life and time between wheel dressing means the machine tool runs longer before required shutdown to retool or perform necessary maintenance.
- Reduced cleaning time spent on critical servo valves, coolant and cleaner nozzles, etc when tramp oil, small fines and grease build up is minimized.
- Reduction in overall coolant maintenance costs