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| Tom Hartness was a Pepsi bottler in South Carolina who liked to fiddle with his machinery. As William Bunch reports, the result is Hartness International, a global leader in bottling equipment that is revolutionizing the industry with a machine called a Dynac Conveyor. |
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A bottling line was something in American industry that hadn't really changed much over the last few years. Indeed, the beer-bottling plant line that became famous in the opening credits of the 1950s-set television show, "Laverne and Shirley," isn't really all that different from one you would have found a few years ago. But today a small company with big ideas out of Greenville, S.C. – Hartness International – is changing all of that. In 1998, the company unveiled its Dynac Accumulating Conveyor, a product that has revolutionized the bottling industry in just seven years. This relatively compact device has the unique ability to make key machines in a product line independent of one another. Production lines are all made of up machines that are required to run in balance through the length of the line. The problem is that they don't naturally operate in unison without complex control systems linking all machines together. The Dynac creates an automatic, pressureless buffer. |
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