LUKAS demonstrated the battery-powered, watertight eWXT rescue tools at the ninth annual “Long Nights of Sciences” event in Erlangen, Germany last month.
Held every other year, The Long Night of Sciences (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften) is one of the largest scientific communication events in the Nuremberg metropolitan region, bringing together more than 20,000 science enthusiasts from Nuremberg, Fürth, and Erlangen, Germany. Members of the general public attend lectures and see demonstrations at local institutions from the early evening until past midnight.
To improve brand recognition in Germany, LUKAS team members demonstrated the eWXT tools, and shared information about their rescue tool portfolio with enthusiasts and prospective employees. Attending the event for the first time, LUKAS Team members answered common questions including, “How does eDRAULIC work under water?” and “Why doesn’t the battery explode when submerged in Water?”
With six local universities, private knowledge projects, public institutions and research institutes in attendance, the event allowed LUKAS to expand their network, and further educate people on how their products improve lives in the community.
To watch a recap video of the 2017 event, click here
With the goal to better serve its customers, Ohio-based Warren Rupp updated their SANDPIPER and Versamatic mobile apps last month.
The new SANDPIPER and Versamatic apps enable users to scan QR codes on their pumps and look up information, while also providing an interactive chemical compatibility guide, and other important resources.
Originally launched in 2014, Warren Rupp’s previous apps were downloaded through the app store, lacked functionality, ease of use, and a modern user experience.
Working with app developer Lumavate, Warren Rupp’s applications transitioned from being hosted on mobile applications to Progressive Web Applications (PWA).
PWAs enable content managers to make updates quickly, which allows the most current product information to be in the customers hands instantaneously. The old, traditional native apps require an update. For development, PWAs are quick to deploy and in this case, was a more cost-effective option compared to native app development. Users can also access the PWA on their desktop, and PWAs take up about 1/10 of the space of a traditional native app.
“For us, it was about developing an app that would provide the most seamless experience for our customers,” said Michelle Miller, Marketing Manager at Warren Rupp. “The biggest thing for us is scalability. There’s a ton of value in knowing that in the future, there are ways that we can add technologies and features and functionality that will further empower and enable our end users.”
When an SUV was involved in a devastating crash in a Florida Intersection, the South Daytona Fire Department relied on their new HURST Jaws of Life rescue tools purchased by Firehouse Subs to help rescue the driver.
Firehouse Subs, a nationwide sandwich restaurant chain founded by former firefighters, recently featured the lifesaving incident, including the HURST Jaws of Life eDRAULIC rescue tool, in a social media campaign.
The video features the South Daytona Fire Department and how they benefited from receiving HURST Jaws of Life rescue tools through the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation.
Since 2017, the HURST team in Shelby, North Carolina, has partnered with Firehouse Subs on commercials and service projects. With similar interests in community outreach, the companies decided to activate their partnership further through the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation in 2018.
Founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation provides funding, lifesaving equipment and educational opportunities for first responders and public safety organizations.
Since the Foundation started, it has granted over $46 million to provide equipment, training, and support to hometown heroes
To learn more about the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation, click here
Fast & Fluid Management (F&F) continues introducing new versions of its precision paint tinting and mixing equipment, with enhanced features based on feedback from customers’ involvement in the product development process.
To meet the needs of small- to medium-sized businesses, the F&F team recently launched its HA180 dispenser, which includes the same technology as the HA680 and HA480, but in a more compact design.
The compact Harbil offers clever features to make service even easier. A good example of this is the top refill lid. It turns open and shuts in just one movement, with magnets stopping the turntable in position. This turns to the right as standard but can just as easily be changed to the left or front by changing one screw.
F&F recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of a new production line for the Harbil.
Covering the full spectrum of customers – from small paint shops to major industrial users – the development of the Harbil Next Gen series is based not only on research in the field and past results, but also on the Voice of the Customer (VoC) and by including them in the entire development process. Fast & Fluid is based in Sassenheim, the Netherlands.
To learn more about how F&F involves the customer in their product development process, click here
In a case study and video, Microsoft recently featured the new “smart truck” technology created by IDEX Fire & Safety in partnership with REV, manufacturer of the highly-rated E-ONE Fire and Rescue vehicles.
This new IoT (Internet of Things) system monitors emergency vehicles – from their engines to their pumps and valves – to better anticipate maintenance needs before a truck breaks down, putting lives and property at risk.
The system uses Windows 10 IoT and Azure to connect the numerous systems and components of the fire truck, providing technicians and maintenance crews with real-time insights into a vehicle’s health.
These diagnostic insights and network capabilities are helping technicians and maintenance crews increase vehicle reliability, reduce downtime, and ultimately save lives.
Offering unparalleled milling flexibility and improved powder processing efficiency, The Fitzpatrick Company and Quadro Engineering Corp. recently developedthe SDx Series™ – Smart Drive Exchangeable Platform, the world’s first production-scale milling and screening platform offering three distinct powder processing solutions on a single, common drive.
Launched earlier this year, the IDEX MPT team previously received an increase in URSs (Customer User Specifications), demonstrating a need for powder processing solutions that offered the ability to interchange heads utilizing the same drive unit.
With the added benefit of reduced capital investment and cost of ownership by up to 75%, the new platform is designed to simplify IDEX’s core portfolio, and affords operators the ability to quickly and easily interchange the three heads to fulfill specific processing requirements, improve production efficiencies and reduce bottlenecks.
Formulators, Scientists, Researchers & Developers, and Technical Transfer Specialists can opt for a single platform and select the most appropriate powder processing technology to suit the application, thereby affording total flexibility and reducing overall space requirements. They include Fitzpatrick’s FitzMill™, Quadro’s Comil®, and FlexSift Security Screening technologies.
Like the SLS-Scalable Lab System™, the SDx Series™ utilizes SMART-detect™, a unique equipment feature that automatically recognizes the head being installed and adjusts RPM to the appropriate level for optimum material processing, thereby reducing the potential for Operator error.
Wilf Sanguesa, Product Manager, Pharma Processing at Quadro Engineering / The Fitzpatrick Company, commented: “Quadro and Fitzpatrick have pioneered the flexibility of interchangeable milling heads in their respective fields. Since 2002, Fitzpatrick’s L1A lab model has afforded users the flexibility to interchange FitzMill and conical mill heads; and Quadro introduced the ComilSift in 2009, the first production-scale, single platform, dual-head interchangeable system for milling and/or security screening. With this heritage and our technical focus on delivering scalable and predictable material processing/milling results, we believe the new platform offers a standout, disruptive solution to the market.”
The Fitzpatrick Company and Quadro Engineering Corp. are Units of IDEX Material Processing Technologies and have been trusted partners of the majority of the world’s top pharmaceutical, chemical and food ingredient processing customers.
As part of their activities during Wellbeing Week, Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) worked with the Canal & River Trust last week, to clean a stretch of the historic Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
Two teams of PPE employees volunteered for three-hour shifts to cut hedges, remove graffiti, and pick up litter to make the canal towpath more presentable and navigable for users.
In addition to volunteering in the local community, Precision Polymer Engineering participated in yoga sessions, mental health seminars and a bake sale fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support during Wellbeing Week.
When a fire broke out at a local mini-storage facility, College Station (Texas) Fire Department Chief, Jonathan McMahan knew to grab the HURST Jaws of Life® StrongArm tool.
It wasn’t just training and innate reaction that led him to that tool choice. It was also experience. Fire had hit that same storage facility a few months before, and the response team used the StrongArm tool to cut the locks off 30 doors in less than five minutes.
The HURST team recently talked with Chief McMahan about the importance of getting the doors open so quickly and why he chose StrongArm.
Q: Tell us about the first time you were called to a fire at the mini-storage unit last fall.
A: When we arrived, we saw there were a couple of units on fire on each side of the drive, so we knew we needed to quickly cover a scene that was spread out. The ladder company got there, and the ladder captain and I immediately began forcing entry on the units using the StrongArm. There were 15 units per side, 30 total, and we had all the locks cut off the whole building in less than five minutes.
Q: You received a similar call this spring. Why was the second call different?
A: When we got on scene, we could see fire coming from the storage units. The fire was more advanced, and we had reports that people could be inside some of the storage units. Based on experience with a similar fire at the same facility, we got the StrongArm and went to work because it had proved itself. I had all the locks off in less than five minutes, giving the engine companies access to put the fire out while freeing up the ladder company to do ventilation.
Q: You said there could have been people inside the storage units?
A: Yes. We had credible information that people were working in some of the units. The battalion chief yelled, “There could be people inside of these! Get the doors open.” I immediately knew which tool to get.
Q: Why did you choose StrongArm as your door breaching tool?
A: Ordinarily, we would have used a K Saw, which is an abrasive, metal-cutting saw. It would have taken a lot longer to get through these locks on these storage units. Not only that, but there’s no way to cut the lock off without damaging the doors; the saw is heavy, and you’d bump into the door latching mechanisms.
For me, this was a no-brainer. StrongArm was the tool for it because of the power versus weight ratio and the minimal chance of destroying the door latching mechanisms. The removable tips of the StrongArm let us easily get just the lock, so the owner could shut the door, put a new lock on it and it’s fixed.
Q: So StrongArm helped protect the property?
A: StrongArm helped us live our mantra that night: Life safety, incident stabilization and property conservation.
Q: Do you have any advice for other first responders considering StrongArm and HURST Jaws of Life?
A: We’ve had StrongArm tools for a year, maybe a year and a half, and we’ve used it for forcible entry into buildings and even popped a car door in a minor incident. But I’d tell them to judge for yourself. Get a sales rep to get StrongArm and eDRAULIC® tools out there and put them to the test. I’m not buying based on specifications; specs are outputs and are easily manipulated. I’m buying based on outcomes, and the outcome in these two incidents speaks for itself: StrongArm took care of business quickly and easily and with the least amount of property destruction.
The College Station Fire Department includes a staff of 161 at six stations with five engines, two ladders, one quint and four ambulances, serving a community of 122,000 people. College Station, Texas, is the home of Texas A&M University.
SAMPI, which produces positive displacement flow-meters and terminal automation systems, collaborated with it’s Fluid & Metering Technologies (FMT) group sister company Liquid Controls to create a new flow computer for petroleum and chemical liquids.
Joining Liquid Controls’ LCR.iQ® and MASTERLOAD.iQ™ products on the CENTRILOGiQ® platform, the TEX flow computer is easy to setup, simple and smooth to operate, and is widely compatible with all fleet management solutions.
While sharing similar design elements as its LC counterparts (display, keypad, multi-language, wireless capability, and more), the TEX also boasts unique hardware and software features designed specifically to meet refined fuels and LPG regulatory requirements throughout Europe, and other regions of the world.
Given vastly different market requirements in the two regions of the world, the teams worked closely together to design their respective new registers with common disciplinary elements and unique features required to properly serve their respective markets.
Introduced at the World LPG Forum in Amsterdam last month, TEX is being manufactured by SAMPI in Italy and will ultimately replace the Sampi TE550 / Truck III electronic register in their markets.
SAMPI and Liquid Controls continue to work together as they develop complimentary products and services across the platform to provide IDEX a competitive advantage.
New machine learning technology from ADS Environmental Services (ADS) is making it easier to anticipate sewer overflows and blockages before they happen, protecting property and the environment.
ADS, which provides integrated hardware, software, and Data as a Service (DaaS) solutions, unveiled its newest installment of the PRISM software platform at the WEFTEC (Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference) tradeshow in Chicago, Illinois last week.
PRISM (PRoactive Insight for System Management) is a cloud-based web application that allows end users to view a map of flow rates, water levels, and rainfall monitors throughout a wastewater collection system. The software enables municipal engineers, managers, and operations users to transform data into actionable insights through an easy and transformative user interface.
Unlike competitor products, the PRISM platform empowers customers to “See what you normally cannot see, to prevent what you normally cannot anticipate.”
Unique to ADS Environmental Services, PRISM includes the addition of the blockage PREDICT™ machine learning application.
Blockage PREDICT™ provides a new early warning system for potential overflow-causing blockages in the collection system, with up to a 2-week advance warning before serious problems arise! With additional “learning” and enhancements, these algorithms soon will have the potential to identify the actual causes of the potential problems and allow our customers to respond quickly and correctly without having to guess what the problem may be.
PRISM also includes the SLiiCER™ application, giving users the ability to quickly evaluate their full collection system response to storm events. Users can quickly evaluate their entire network for the negative impacts of rainwater infiltration and inflow into their systems due to any type of rain event, and then plan their reactive response to these events to better focus their operational and capital spending.
Expanding upon the first software installment, which was launched in late 2018, this latest installment of PRISM features significant improvements to support management, engineering, and operational decisions in their wastewater collection systems.
To learn more about the PRISM 2.0 software, click here
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