At Designetics, we’ve created more than 5000 proprietary fluid applicators – but we’re not just developing applicators to add to our catalog. We got here by working with customers to design applicator solutions that fit their unique needs. We tap into our expertise in manufacturing processes and our vast experience in fluid application to develop applicators that exceed our customers’ expectations for accuracy, ease-of-use, and quality.

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 product mix changes frequently, to realize some of the benefits of automation – such as improved quality and higher throughput...

The first challenges that Designetics’ founders tackled were in the automotive industry – providing a safer, more accurate way to apply chemicals to automotive glass for assembly. And with numerous parts and processes that involve fluid application, the automotive industry still presents us with new challenges on regular basis. But in addition to cars, trucks, and other types of vehicles, many of the products that we encounter in everyday life were manufactured or assembled with fluid applicators and systems from Designetics. Here some examples of how we’re helping manufacturers in a variety of industries achieve the highest levels of precision, quality, and reliability in fluid application.

There’s a difference between a supplier who provides products and one who provides solutions. And while Designetics offers thousands of standard fluid applicators to fit many different fluids and substrates, we have the expertise and resources to design custom applicators for new and unique situations – providing solutions that maximize coverage and flow for all kinds of fluids and substrates.

One of the goals of any manufacturing operation is to use employees’ skills and talents where they add value to the process – like applying fluid to a substrate. And while it’s often necessary to monitor certain aspects of a process, monitoring a parameter such as the fluid level in a bottle is a non-value-added task that pulls people away from their skilled work. This is why manufacturing systems of all types are beginning to integrate monitoring capabilities into their standard operation, and why Designetics developed the Bottle Holder with Level Detection.

The Designetics Bottle Holder with Level Detection provides air-tight delivery of fluids from a manufacturer’s 1 liter or 1 gallon bottle to an e3mini or e3multi precision pump panel. And it can be equipped with either a level sensor or a load cell to automatically monitor the fluid level in the bottle – so the operator doesn’t have to.

Here’s how it works…