Industry Type:
agriculture | automotive
| chemical | construction
| electrical |
food processing | mining
material handling | pharmaceutical
| plastics | process
| pulp and paper | oil
and gas | woodworking
 |
 |
 |
 |
Menu resources
services
- - |
|
 |
 |
 |
Industrial Tool Glossary
The Industrial Tools Glossary is place where you will able to learn a little about industrial concepts and terms used throughout the industrial world.
Chiller - a machine used to produced
chilled water used primarily in commercial and industrial facilities to
cool process machinery and the surrounding air inside the facitlity (air
conditioning).
Compressor - a machine that compresses
a gas at a pressure that is greater than the atmosphere using mechanical
means.
Conveyor - is any piece of transport
equipment used for moving materials and objects from one place to another.
Engine - a machine or device that
converts chemical energy into heat or thermal energy.
Gear - is a kind of wheel with teeth
designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component. The
teeth of a gear are shaped to minimize wear, vibration and noise, and
to maximize the efficiency of power transmission.
Generator - a machine or device that
converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
Inclined plane
- a device that reduces the force necessary to move a load a certain distance
up by providing a path for the load to move at a low angle to the ground.
This lessens the needed force but increases the distance involved, so
that the amount of work stays the same.
Heat Exchanger - a device used for
the efficient transfer of heat from one fluid to another fluid over a
solid surface.
Lever - from the old french levier,
to raise, is a bar or rod that rotates around a fulcrum and multiplies
the mechanical force applied to one part of the bar. When effort is applied
at some point on the bar, the bar rotates around the fulcrum and raises
a load. There are three classes of levers: first, second
and third class levers. First class levers always have the fulcrum
between the effort and the load, i.e., pliers. Second class levers always
place the load between the fulcrum and the effort, i.e., a wheelbarrow.
Third class levers place the effort between the load and the fulcrum,
i.e., a catapult.
Pulley - is a wheel with a groove
along its edge, for holding a rope or cable. Pulleys can be used in sets
designed to reduce the amount of force needed to lift a load.
Scale - a tool used to measure the
weight of an object.
Screw - is a shaft with a helical
groove formed on its surface. It is used as a threaded fastener to hold
objects together, and as a device used to translate torque into linear
force.
Simple Machine - any device that requires
the application of a single force to work. Simple machines fall into two
categories; those dependent on the vector resolution of forces, i.e.,
inclined plane, wedge, screw, and those in which there is an equilibrium
of torques, i.e., lever, pulley and wheel. Simple machines are often used
in combination as components of more complex machines.
Wedge - a form of inclined plane,
a wedge is a device used to separate two objects through the application
of force, perpendicular to the inclined surfaces, developed by conversion
of force applied to the blunt end. The mechanical advantage of a wedge
depends on the ratio of it length to its thickness.
Wheel and Axle - consists of a handwheel
(a disc or lever arm with a handle) which turns an axle around which a
chord is wound.
industrial tools home | contact | resources | sitemap | services