If you have a Porta-Spect from Marando … a picture IS worth a thousand inspectors. Porta-Spect works 24/7/365 to assure your products are right every time. If product appearance is important, if quantity is important, if orientation is important, if completeness is important….then Porta-Spect can help. In the example below,…
3D Printing vs. Additive Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing or 3D Printing? Both terms describe the use of digital data and 3D-printers to produce a solid object, one layer at a time. Technically, the terms ‘Additive Manufacturing’ and ‘3D printing’ describe the same process. The principal difference arises from the term ‘manufacturing’. It implies the item is…
Press Tending Automation
To improve press operations, our customer requested a fully automated press tending system capable of moving assembly tooling in and out of a 500 T stamping press, circulating it past unload and load stations before returning it to the press. This system needed to manage in-die actuators and monitor all…
COVID-19 PPE Compliance
From the start, Marando Industries has aggressively managed its response to COVID-19 risks. In our own facilities, we follow all CDC/NIH guidelines for social distancing and PPE use. Each of our customers has its own interpretation of the guidelines and each has adopted slightly different policies. Marando Industries adopts &…
Reverse Engineering and Reproducing a Knuckle Press Ram
A local customer operates several knuckle presses in a high volume packaging-material production facility. The presses are critical to the customer’s operation. After several in-house attempts to repair a cracked ram, the customer contracted Marando to reverse engineer for fit-up and to completely re-engineer for load bearing/durability. This was for…
OMCA Strip Back Mill & Bevel Machine Order Received
We’re pleased to announce the sale of another OMCA ART 910 Strip Back Mill & Bevel machine to Senior-Flexonics-Pathways, a Texas based manufacturer of specialty pipeline couplings used in the Petrochemical and Nuclear industries. Products made by SFP are extraordinarily important to the viability and safety of critical energy infrastructures….
Contract Award: Inline UT Inspection Station
Marando Industries is pleased to announce it has secured a quick-turn contract to design, install and integrate an Ultrasonic Testing Station for a domestic API Pipe Mill. The new “UT” station will be installed down stream of the weld station and is the first line of defense against defect welds….
Experience Matters
Please join us in welcoming Dave Weidenhammer and Doug Scherer to Marando Industries! Dave and Doug are talented engineers with deep experience in high volume machining. In their first deployment as representatives of Marando Industries, they will be providing project management and resource coordination services to a Tier 1 automotive…
Vision Inspection System
We love a challenge! A good customer contracted Marando Industries to develop a custom vision inspection station to control the quality of part kits on a manual packing line. The kits are sold in a variety of configurations so they needed a way to ensure each kit contained the correct…
OMCA Strip Back Machine Delivered
Last week we delivered the first OMCA ART 910 strip back machine to a customer in Oklahoma. The customer has been searching decades for a machine to ease the burden of stripping back clad material from carbon-steel plates for use in vessel and tank fabrications. In this particular case, the…
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