Moving from Semi- to Fully-Automated Fluid Application
The Benefits of Moving from Semi-Automated to Fully Automated Fluid Application Implementing a semi-automated fluid application system allows smaller manufacturers, or those whose...
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Fluid application solutions for any manufacturing challenge
The first challenges that Designetics’ founders tackled were in the automotive industry – providing a safer, more accurate way to apply chemicals to...
Whether you need a standard applicator or a custom design, we’ve got you covered!
There’s a difference between a supplier who provides products and one who provides solutions. And while Designetics offers thousands of standard fluid applicators...
How the bottle holder with level detection can take non-value-added work out of your process
One of the goals of any manufacturing operation is to use employees’ skills and talents where they add value to the process –...
Case study: Poka-yoke ensures error-proof supply of fluid applicators to end-of-arm tooling
If your organization uses Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma tools in its operations, you’ve probably used the methodology of poka-yoke, which means “mistake-proofing”...
Interview with an Innovator: Billy Hesser
From time to time, we sit down with a Designetics innovator to talk about his or her career as well as topics relevant...
How to ensure safety in fluid application
There are many steps a company can take to ensure the safety of workers, customers, and the environment – and one of these...
How to get consistent fluid application from your automated system
For precise, consistent fluid application, holding a constant pressure between the fluid applicator and the substrate is key. But this can pose a...
How We Got Our Start
How Designetics Got Its Start The automotive industry has long been a pioneer in the development of new manufacturing methods to increase productivity...
The Industrial Internet of Things and You
Much has been said about the Internet of Things—the revolutionary technological advances that allow for things like smart refrigerators and televisions that can...
Our wish for you
It’s been quite a year at Designetics: We’ve grown and expanded our reach, covering the globe with new innovations and serving a wide...
Interview with an Innovator: Mark Moll
Each quarter, we sit down with a Designetics innovator to talk about his or her career, what makes Designetics special and topics relevant...
Sealant trends: What to expect in the coming years.
In recent years, more manufacturers have avoided fastening components together with bolts, welds or screws and have embraced the use of sealants and...
Could they excel at sports without us?
Would countless runners and athletes be able to run their fastest or jump their highest without Designetics? Could an NBA star execute an...
Designetics seeks donations for a spooktacular cause
Designetics Cares, the non-profit charitable arm of fluid applications industry leader Designetics, is a presenting sponsor of this year’s iHeartRadio Trunk and Treat...
Interview with an Innovator: Holly DuVall
Each quarter, we sit down with a Designetics innovator to talk about his or her career, what makes Designetics special and topics relevant...
Good for the community, good for workers
People choose to work at companies for a variety of reasons: good pay; benefits; personal fulfillment; or maybe a location close to home....
Home on the range
Summertime evokes lots of visuals: pies cooling on a windowsill; the family gathered round the kitchen making side dishes for that backyard barbeque;...
The need for speed: How Designetics can help
According to a special report developed by IndustryWeek called “The Future of Manufacturing: 2020 and Beyond,” a large number of manufacturers expect significant...
Interview with an Innovator: Tammy Long
Each month, we sit down with a Designetics innovator to talk about his or her career, what makes fluid applications systems at Designetics...
A summer of involvement
Summer is coming…and with it, an opportunity to do good. As a premier provider of fluid application systems and solutions, Designetics knows its...
Celebrating our history: a look at our founding
Like Apple’s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, or the Hewlett Packard boys working in a converted shed, Designetics’ founders Wally Krueger and Craig...
Are you asking the right questions?
When looking for a supplier of fluid applications systems and solutions, it’s easy to get swept up in sales pitches and hype from...
Interview with an Innovator: Brad Spraw
Each month, we sit down with a Designetics innovator to talk about his or her career, what makes fluid applications systems at Designetics...
Designetics Asks Employees to “Love Yourself”
As a leader in fluid application systems and solutions, Designetics believes it’s not enough to just focus on providing superior products in the marketplace; it cultivates...
Where Designetics Leaves its Mark
When you’re the premier provider of fluid application systems and solutions—as well as fluid applicators, brush applicators, channel applicators and applicator tips—you can...
The Unusual is Our Usual
The measure of a leader in fluid application systems is how well it can adapt to out-of-the-ordinary requests. And for us, the unusual...
Facing the Challenges Together
Recently, economic factors have made manufacturing outcomes and projections less clear: The result? Many manufacturers have had to make do with less—less supplies,...
Our Resolutions for 2019
Ah, the new year. It’s a time rife with possibility, when opportunity seems to be around every corner and optimism for a great...
Designetics Cares Honored
The Association of Fundraising Professionals Northwest Ohio Chapter announced that Designetics Cares, the nonprofit, philanthropic arm of the fluid application system industry leader...
Birth of An Industry: How Designetics Helped Shape Manufacturing
It all started with a simple request. More than thirty years ago, a major glass company came to what would become Designetics with...
Testing, Testing, Testing: Designetics’ Approach to New Projects
There’s an old joke: how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. In a similar vein, how do you get to...
To the Victor Go the Spoils? Nope.
In recent years, manufacturing has come to grips with an unavoidable fact: as production has ramped up in terms of speed and volume,...
To Be Precise: Implications for Manufacturers
There once was a time when precision in manufacturing meant working within tolerances of less than an inch. Then it was less than...
Interview with an Innovator: Charles Barnhart
Each month, we sit down with a Designetics innovator to talk about his or her career, what makes fluid applications systems at Designetics...
Choosing a Fluid Application Provider? Here’s the ONE difference maker
When it comes time to choose a fluid application system provider, you’re faced with a dizzying array of choices: makers of fluid applicators,...
Designetics gives back, assists Bethany House
Designetics is not only a leader in fluid application systems, it also leads by getting involved in its community through its non-profit foundation,...
From Scratch: Custom Applications R Us
Some fluid application system requirements may call for off-the-shelf brush or channel applicator tip to meet a fluid application need, but there are...
Interview with an Innovator: Craig Williams
Each month, we sit down with a Designetics innovator to talk about his or her career, what makes fluid applications systems at Designetics...
Fluid Application System Leader Challenges Employees
As a leader in the fluid application system industry, Designetics understands the importance of creating a challenging, engaging and healthy work environment for...
Keep Quality Top of Mind
Given the mission critical nature of many fluid applications in manufacturing, it’s important that quality assurance be a vital aspect of a fluid...
Horror Stories: Applicator Applications Gone Bad
In a factory, where the assembly line is humming along—cranking out piece after piece—everything is great until…The Incident. The Incident: when defective applicator...
Three Things You Need to Ask When Choosing a Fluid Applicator Partner
So you’ve found yourself in need of a fluid application partner. Maybe your current process isn’t working quite the way you thought it...