Maintenance costs and downtime significantly reduced Background Millboard is a family owned manufacturer of polyurethane decking boards for commercial and domestic usage. A typical place where their decking boards would be used would be in gardens of hotels and restaurants. The advantage of polyurethane decking boards over wooden decking boards is that they require no maintenance at all, whereas wooden decking requires oiling once a year. The main problem they were having was on the de-moulding line. Because the decking boards are ridged, the existing vacuum unit did not provide enough vacuum flow to cope with the leaking ridges and therefore the other cups were not picking the mould up. They were going through at least one of these existing vacuum units per year before pump failure. Solut

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