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How can manufacturers operate more efficiently, more productively, and at reduced cost? That’s the key question behind lean manufacturing, a strategic approach to designing manufacturing systems and processes to create, as Industry Week writes, “a seamless flow of people, material and information. It’s all about effective use of time.” Through lean manufacturing techniques, manufacturers can …

Lean manufacturing: Using air casters to mobilize your factory floor Read More »

Need to increase your production throughput? Borrow a lesson from Henry Ford. Henry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to examine the running of his company. The expert made a favorable report, but had reservations about one employee. “It’s that man down the corridor,” he said. “Every time I go by his office, he’s just …

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Is your manufacturing facility running out of floor space? Do you lack the budget to expand? Then consider the many ways you can maximize the utilization of your floor space. First, get a handle on why you are running out of floor space. Some manufacturers face a space squeeze because of company growth. Their company …

Six Ways to Maximize Manufacturing Facility Floor Space without Expansion Read More »

If you want the ULTIMATE on-demand rigging capability, embed air bearings into your machinery. We even provide the models via an online toolkit available from AeroGo at www.aerogo.com/products/embedded-systems.  

Sometimes you just need to move tools, racks, and machines around to streamline work flow to be more convenient and accessible.  At AeroGo, we use our own air casters to reconfigure our shop on the fly.  One person can easily move material racks, tools, gantry cranes, etc.  It could not be easier.  See for yourself:

Fall 2019 customer newsletter

AeroGo employees give blood regularly.  Nicole Faull in Human Resources presented Bloodworks Northwest team member Aglung Young AeroGo’s Gold Star award today, due to her exceptional phlebotomy skills.

Safely Moving Satellites Before Liftoff, an article in SatMagazine, details how air caster systems move satellites in test. Read the entire article here.

According to ancient myth, the Sphinx – a creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion – would stand guard at important and holy sites like royal tombs and religious temples. There, the ferocious creature would challenge trespassers with riddles before allowing them to pass. Today, the Penn Museum of …

Moving a 3,000 year old sphinx: how air casters solved a 12.5 ton riddle and achieved the impossible Read More »

Congratulations, NASA!  It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo.  Since the beginning of the space race, air bearings have been onsite to help put man on the moon – and other out-of-this-world applications.  Read all about it here.