What is the “Active Utilization” for Workstations in Your Factory? 90%-100%? Probably Not True.
By definition, “active utilization” is the only time when dust/fume/mist collection is necessary
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- Jun 1, 2022
- 6 min
How to Match VFD To Fan Motor
How to Match Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) to Existing Fan Motor, and How To Match Proper Fan Motor for Variable Frequency Drive?
- Dec 13, 2021
- 4 min
Equipment Lifecycle for Dust Collection Systems
Life Expectancy for Industrial Machinery When making a capital expense for your factory, there's more that makes up the true cost than...
- Jul 2, 2021
- 2 min
greenBOX NXT Controls Up To 32 Workstations and Now Only Costs $1,995.
For most operators, their relationship with their dust collection system is LOVE/HATE. Their dust collection system performs very...
- May 5, 2021
- 3 min
2” Gate for On-demand Central Industrial Vacuum Cleaning Systems
We’ve discussed the benefits of using Ecogate's Central Industrial Vacuum System. Today we’d like to share with you the design of 2” or...
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
On-demand Central Industrial Vacuum Cleaning Systems with Ecogate
Electricity savings, maintaining minimum transport air velocities, and smaller vacuum pumps able to handle more room drops; these are...
- Dec 17, 2020
- 3 min
Ecogate Completes Major Infrastructure Upgrade
About a year and a half ago, Ecogate decided to start building our online software to run on Kubernetes, an open-source cloud computing...
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Ecogate greenBOX ONE
Are you interested in Ecogate but perhaps you already have automatic blast gates installed in your system that are not Ecogate brand?...
- Sep 4, 2020
- 3 min
Ecogate Butterfly Style Blast Gates
Our butterfly style gate comes with all of the same features and benefits as our standard gates and is compatible with all of our greenBOX
- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
Ecogate Winter Mode Sensor Kit
Ecogate’s Winter Mode Sensor Kit is one of the newer features available with a greenBOX Master control system
- Aug 26, 2020
- 2 min
Averaging Air Velocity Sensor™
What is the Averaging Air Velocity Sensor?
- Feb 18, 2020
- 3 min
Ecogate's Standalone Gates
Ecogate has a solution for shop owners that just want to control a handful of their machines.
- Feb 3, 2020
- 3 min
Eight New Advanced Features
New features for Ecogate's greenBOX Master.
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
Understanding Data to Make Better Decisions for Safety/Growth
Current issues that manufacturing facilities face and how selecting the correct data to monitor could help resolve some challenges.
- Oct 17, 2019
- 2 min
Preventing Combustible Explosions
What happens to you in an explosion? First your ears blow out, at about 3.4 PSI, then your eyes…then your lungs and other organs rupture...
- Feb 27, 2018
- 5 min
“Why Can’t I Just Install a Dust Collection VFD?”
It’s a question we get fairly regularly. All you need to slow down the the fan on your dust collection system is a VFD, right? So simply...
- Jan 2, 2018
- 4 min
User Experience is Only Everything
In the summer of 2007 Drew, a recent MIT grad, started knocking on doors in Silicon Valley planning to raise money for his startup idea....
- Sep 1, 2017
- 3 min
Introducing Support for Cascading Fans
We are pleased to announce that we have developed support for dust collection systems which use cascading fans. In the Cascading Fans...
- Jul 27, 2017
- 4 min
Dust Collection in Schools
There are a few things that make schools unique from a dust collection perspective. Ultimately, the reason behind the differences is that...
- Mar 29, 2017
- 2 min
Double your Filter Media Life!
Did you think, “Yeah, right” when you read the headline? Well, read on – we have the engineering and the anecdotal evidence to back it...
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