Customer Story The Strainrite Companies
For over 40 years, The Strainrite Companies, a family-owned enterprise, have been a global leader in filtration across diverse industries like biopharmaceuticals, electronics, and beverages. Discover how they leveraged ultrasonic welding led to a 944% ROI in just 30 days, alongside a $120,000 increase in profits through optimized sonotrode design.
The challenge
- Strainrite's production was hindered by faulty third-party sonotrodes – a critical tool for joining plastics in their filtration products – which frequently cracked due to poor design.
- This led to recurring production halts and significant financial losses, driven by costly replacements, reduced capacity, and increased downtime.
- The company urgently needed a reliable sonotrode solution to restore maximum productivity.
Our solution
- Herrmann Ultrasonics introduced a novel tear-drop design for a new sonotrode.
- This innovative design provided a more uniform distribution of amplitude on the sonotrode's face, as confirmed by FEA analysis.
- The re-design ultimately led to improved performance characteristics of the sonotrode.
The new sonotrode operated 3 seconds faster per 15-second cycle than the previous tool. This resulted in a more than 20% production capacity increase. Because the production rate increased from 4 units per minute to 5 units per minute, this translated into a 25% output increase.
Customer benefits
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