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Little had supplied. When the product request was received, Osborn’s team knew that they had the equipment to produce it. After analyzing the product’s application, the load it needed to carry and how smoothly it was required to operate, the en-
gineering team was able to create a custom, small-diameter, low-friction steel roller.
“The engineering team at Load Runners worked with the specs and design needs that I sent them and they were very responsive to us,” said Bargeron. “That’s one of the reasons that we went to Osborn with this need; they’re customer-oriented and we knew that getting what we needed wouldn’t be a problem, even though our roller isn’t a standard catalog product.
“The door was designed to use four rollers, paired in two separate trolleys,” said Bargeron. “They roll on a Load Run- ners hard, round polished steel bar for very low-friction movement. Not only does the low-friction reduce the power needed for a belt drive to move the door, it makes it easier to manually push or pull the door open in the event of a power outage.” The first door to use the custom Load Runners roller covers a doorway that is just over 4' [1.2-m] wide and is required to have 10" [254 mm] of overlap on both sides of the opening. It opens and closes at a slow speed with a safety bumper that stops and reverses the door’s motion when bumped. The door was installed in the radiation therapy room at the new Marshall Can- cer Center in Albertsville, AL. ME For more information from Osborn’s Load Runners Division, go to www.load-
runners.com, or phone 800-720-5248.
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n important part of a German subcontractor’s success is its in- house tool production. Kleiner Stanz- technik GmbH (Pforzheim, Germany) produces more than 60 highly complex progressive forming tools a year. Since switching to VISI for 3D Tool Design
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