Assembly in Action: Vacuum Helps Improve Air Quality
After performing a thorough anal-ysis of the plant, Shamrock decided on Nilfisk-Advance America Inc.'s (Malvern, PA) GM 811 and 83 industrial vacuums. These products helped the air quality improve by 94.4 percent during the course of one year.
The plant is divided into two sections, parts production and assembly. The lamination process involves laying out fiberglass and creating a boat shell, pulling out the mold, trimming it and grinding the parts to finish the basic shell. During this trimming process, large amounts of dust are created. Because the dust being generated during the grinding process was never captured, it circulated into the air around the plant. The solution was to hook up the GM 811 industrial vacuum cleaner to the cutting saws to pull dust and debris away from the cut, retaining them in the vacuum.