The Challenge: Improving the Efficiency of a Tube Drawing Bench

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Team Management,
Tube,
U.S. Department Of Energy
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Overview: While GT's headquarters is located in Greenville, Pennsylvania, it's production facility is located in Clarksville, Arkansas. The production process at the Clarksville facility consists of drawing stainless steel tubing through dies to reduce their diameter and/or wall thickness. As a result of the changes implemented by the Showcase Demonstration team, the No. 6 drawbench now requires less energy to draw a tube, even though the motor power was increased from 150-hp to 200-hp. For a typical draw, the eddy current coupling system required 190-hp to draw a tube, while the more efficient vector drive requires only 87-hp.

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