b"Productive TimesWELCOME TO THE CLEAN JUNGLER emodeling a plant offers anEND USER SOLUTION PROVIDERideal opportunity to improve production and enhance the work- Gorilla Mill Transor Filter USAing environment. Gorilla Mill real- 866-888-9600 800-354-3040ized those gains when the cuttingwww.gorillamill.com www.transor lter.comtool manufacturer remodeled its plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin. In connection with a plant remodeling effort, improve Our plant remodeling involvedCHALLENGE the cleanliness of grinding oil when producing carbide a series of calculated decisions tocutting tools.provide the simplest, cleanest and most efficient method of machineUse a coolantltration system that removes particles layout, said Operations ManagerSOLUTION larger than 1 m.Nathan Cranker.He said part of the remodeling involved installing two troughs, orconsidered canister-type filtration. trenches, that extend about 50.3 mHowever, that system would have (165')or 90% of the addition complicated the recovery of carbide and supply Gorilla Mills tool andsludge, which sells for about $8,000 cutter grinders with electricity, airper 208.2-L (55-gal.) drum. The com-and coolant infeed and drainage. pany generates a drum of sludge The former arrangement was cha- roughly every two weeks.otic because of all the wires, cablesHavinghadexperiencewith and hoses hanging from the ceil- Transor Filter, which is about two ing, Cranker said. There mighthours from Waukesha, Gorilla Mill have even been a few goats andpurchased a V-series filtration sys-chickens wandering around. temtoservice18grindersand In the past, he said the companyplaced it in a separate room ad-employed a grinding oil filtrationjacent to the machining area. Ac-system that used paper filter-typecording to Transor Filter, the system media, which wasnt effective atdelivers clean oil thats temperature-keeping the oil clean. controlled to 1 degree C to each The coolant looked like coffee,machine upon demand, and auto-Cranker said. matic backflushing self-cleans the To improve coolant cleanliness,filter elements to minimize mainte-he said the toolmaker switchednance. The automated sludge han-to vessel filtration machines fromdling system additionally features a Transor Filter USA in Elk Grove Vil- drag-out that brings sludge out of lage, Illinois. Each one serviced twoTransor Filters unit and dumps the to three grinders. sludge into a drum.WhenwetransitionedtoCranker said the oil temperature Transor, Cranker said, it kept theis kept at 22 to 24 degrees C (71.6 coolant mostly clear with a slightto 75.2 degrees F).honey-colored hue. The production area also main-To coincide with the plant re- tains a fairly constant temperature modeling,hesaidGorillaMillto help hold tool size.sought a new filtration system andWe dont allow any doors to be 38AUGUST 2021 ProTimes.indd 38 7/19/21 12:16 PM"