PROCESS LINES

Dixie Industrial offers both automated and manual plating on both barrel and rack machines (see the list below).

· Four Automatic Rack machines for Zinc Plating – Capacity up to 12 feet in length on two machines

· One Automatic Barrel machine for Zinc Plating or Clean and Oil – Capacity up to 3,000 Pounds per hour

· One Manual Barrel line for Zinc Phosphating and Zinc Plating

· One Manual Rack line for Manganese and Zinc Phosphate

· One Manual Barrel line for Bright Acid Tin

· One Manual Rack line for Bright Acid Tin

· One Baking Oven

Our engineering department constantly improves existing lines, and frequently builds new lines with impressive use of innovation and technology. Dixie Industrial recently made the following changes to improve productivity and control customer plating costs:

· Completely rebuilt an integral process line, thus dropping cycle time from 7 minutes to 4 minutes—a 43% percent drop! Also increased the line’s cycle capacity by 50% and improved the line’s “uptime” (time spent in actual production) to 98%.

· Modified fixture development for another process line, thereby increasing the cycle production capacity by 100%.

· Increased capacity on its rod-plating line by 260% between 2000 and 2004, allowing Dixie’s customer to be more competitive with imports and grow their market share.

Clearly, when it comes to employing cutting-edge resources to remain competitive in the global market, Dixie Industrial “talks the talk” and “walks the walk.”

PLCs, high-speed drives and hoists, innovative fixture designed to maximize throughput, measureables: measure productive cycles, cycle/hour, cycle/shift, productive cycles, non-productive cycles, real-time process control and costs, measuring chemical use, water, electricity use, to have a better idea of what it costs to put us into a position where we’re more competitive (can’t measure it, can’t manage it)