{"id":1258,"date":"2019-02-19T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/blog\/never-underestimate-the-importance-of-the-caterpillar-take-off-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T06:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:06:49","slug":"never-underestimate-the-importance-of-the-caterpillar-take-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/blog\/never-underestimate-the-importance-of-the-caterpillar-take-off-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Underestimate the Importance of the Caterpillar Take-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/about-us\/latest-news\/\">Latest News \/<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>When it comes to investment in new machinery many organisations make the mistake of ignoring the Caterpillar Take-Off or Puller and the pivotal role in plays within every extrusion line.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Take-Off provides tension to the extrusion line and forms a vital link from the good consistent quality of melt produced by the extruder through to the successful cutting\/sawing\/coiling operation at the end of the line.<\/p>\r\n<p>If the Take-Off is underperforming, then issues throughout the line are likely to occur :<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Product inaccuracy at the die face leading to poor product and possible line downtime<\/li>\r\n<li>Calibration inaccuracy \/ line down time<\/li>\r\n<li>Inaccurate cutting\/sawing\/coiling<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>All too many times a company will make a good investment in a new Cutter\/Saw\/Coiler for them not to see the true benefits due to an inaccurate, ageing Haul-Off.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is therefore essential to have a Caterpillar Take-Off that has precision speed holding at all times.<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/bb-plugin\/img\/pixel.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to investment in new machinery many organisations make the mistake of ignoring the Caterpillar Take-Off or Puller and the pivotal role in plays within every extrusion line. <\/p>\n<p>The Take-Off provides tension to the extrusion line and forms a vital link from the good consistent quality of melt produced by the extruder through to the successful cutting\/sawing\/coiling operation at the end of the line.<\/p>\n<p> If the Take-Off is underperforming, then issues throughout the line are likely to occur :<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Product inaccuracy at the die face leading to poor product and possible line downtime<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Calibration inaccuracy \/ line down time<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Inaccurate cutting\/sawing\/coiling<\/p>\n<p>All too many times a company will make a good investment in a new Cutter\/Saw\/Coiler for them not to see the true benefits due to an inaccurate, ageing Haul-Off.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore essential to have a Caterpillar Take-Off that has precision speed holding at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bostonmatthews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}