A member of the “That 70′s Show” community recently made an attempt, via the Assembly Magazine Enews, to ramp up the spin cycle to high.  Why is the core technology of their product 1970′s technology?  Some would say they got too fat and happy dominating air dispensing for 30 years and turned a deaf ear to what their customers were saying about the performance of their product.

For those of you new to El Presidente’s blog, El Presidente refers to all dispensing manufacturers of timed air dispensers as “That 70′s Show” because the core of their technology, air pressure controlled by an air solenoid, was invented in the 1970′s!  Yikes!!

Since the SmartDispensers^® automated dispensing systems release in October 2010, multinationals worldwide are rapidly choosing the SmartDispenser^® to replace the tired old 1970′s technology.  It is evident by the last paragraph in the above ad the “That 70′s Show” community have felt the pressure from the SmartDispenser’s^® foray into the fluid dispensing markets.  As they say in the Bud Light commercials…”Here We Go!”  “Honestly folks, yes it’s 1970′s technology bbbbut we’ve made improvements.  Really!”  They didn’t make improvements they ignored the root cause of erratic dispensing, air pressure, and spent 20 years fighting fires as opposed to improving the product.  Twenty years and hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown at erratic air pressure and “That 70′s Show” was only able to partially quench two fires, the dispense tip and the dispense syringe.  Now they want you to believe a “High Tech” dispense syringe makes a difference.  Rubbish!

What else would you expect from someone caught with their hand in a cookie jar?  Fishman Corporation listening to their customers complaints about erratic air pressure while dispensing assembly materials focused on the root cause and eliminated it increasing fluid dispense repeatability 6-10 times.

Now Fishman Corporation, El Presidente and the 21st century marauders have taken fluid dispensing to a whole new level with the SmartDispenser^® automated dispensing product line.  Whether dispensing on the benchtop or in a fully automated production cell the SmartDispenser^® product line provides the infrastructure needed to take advantage of the technological advancements impacting the 21st century production facility as outlined in the video below.

Listen, when a key vendor to your supply chain starts spinning the truth you need to dump that vendor right away. If you rely on bad information and outdated dispensing equipment from a key vendor to make your product you are going to make inferior product. Be smart, go Fishman and upgrade to the SmartDispenser^® today!

Please don’t forget to follow us on Twitter.  Check out our Flickr page.  We’ll have some informative new fluid dispensing videos soon to add to the content on our YouTube page!  Join our Facebook page where soon as a “friend” you’ll have the opportunity to cash in on some budget saving discounts for being a loyal follower.  Stay tuned for a revamped and all new Linked In corporate page.  Of course, El Presidente gives a big shout of thanks to all the followers of this blog.  El Presidente loves the ” Fishman Peeps!”

El Presidente Out~

El Presidente Out~

This new generator is one of Fishman’s newest investments in our ongoing efforts to maintain market excellence in the fluid dispensing business. We are committed to do all we can to provide the highest quality value and service to all our customers. It is part of our promise to you, our valued customer, that you can depend on Fishman Corporation to help keep your own production line running smoothly and efficiently.

We believe the cost of setting up the dispensing system for your application should be on the dispensing experts, Fishman Corporation.  With the 30 day demonstration it takes hours of your precious time once the system arrives.  With our program our dispensing experts set the SmartDispenser™ dispensing system up for you prior to shipping.  They program the SmartDispenser™ dispense system to your specifications and perform a weight study which includes standard deviation, mean, average deviation from the mean, repeatability and confidence 90% in an Excel spreadsheet which is stored on the SmartDispenser™ dispense system for you. You can review and perform additional in-house statistical analysis via the testing Excel spreadsheet on the SmartDispenser dispense system screen or download to your computer for additional in house statistical analysis.  The testing dispense program is pre-loaded into your SmartDispenser™ dispense system prior to shipping so when it arrives all you have to do is power it up and start dispensing.  The system works right out of the box saving you hours and hours of your labor required by the 30 day demonstrations system.

At Fishman dispensing systems we do not blindly follow others just because.  We think, improve and save you money.   We believe your time should be spent on your product not our product.  Call a Fishman sales representative for the details.

To begin, only use Fishman’s Genius™ components.  The dimensions for our patented PosiLok™ pistons and syringes have been programmed into the software of the SmartDispenser™.  The design of the PosiLok™ piston allows for an increased interference fit with the I.D. of the syringe to prevent pressure loss.  The industrial thread interlocks with the piston hub on your LDS™ dispense gun and the thick wall allows you to drive your fluid through the dispense tip without a loss in pressure.  The precise dimensions and material composition of our syringes work together with the PosiLok™ pistons to provide consistent, repeatable fluid dispensing.

Always fully insert the PosiLok™ piston into the syringe regardless of which particular method of filling is to be used.  Utilizing either a straight or 90 degree luer-to-luer adapter, the fluid should enter through the “nose” or the luer lock dispense orifice of the syringe.  Filling your syringes in this method will keep the fluid in front of the PosiLok™ piston.  The fluid should not breach the front seal of the piston.  Eliminating – or at the least, minimizing – air voids is also instrumental in taking full advantage of the dispensing capability afforded by the SmartDispenser™.  When pockets of air reach and pass through the dispense tip the result is an incomplete dispense.

Fishman offers a selection of syringe filling systems keyed to your fluid viscosity and production volume.  A number of instructional videos have been created and posted displaying the different methods of filling syringes with an assortment of fluids.  Taking a few minutes to review one or more of these will illustrate this process.  Once a preferred systematic approach has been established, implementing a standard formalized procedure for your production team will reap rewards by creating a clean work environment and eliminate fluid waste, rework and rejected parts.

Learn more about our dispensing syringes, dispensing components and syringe filling systems here.

Did you know you could access and program all of your SmartDispensers™ using a single Apple iPad?  Simply connect your SmartDispensers™ to the local server or the local Wi-Fi network.  Using your iPad access your LogMeIn professional account.  Every SmartDispenser™ is provided with a lifetime subscription to LogMeIn Professional.  Contact your sales representative if you don’t know your account login in and password.  LogMeIn provides a list of all your SmartDispensers™ simply click the dispenser you wish to access and program, pull yesterday’s production data or use the webcam provided with the SmartDispenser™ to start a video feed from your SmartDispenser™ to the iPad.  Sign up for a Skype account; add a Bluetooth headset and you can communicate to the production worker via the iPad and SmartDispenser™.  Fast programming, fast response from anywhere in your facility or anywhere in the world.  Fishman has the best products and the best service, that’s why we’re the technological dispensing leader.

Born in Albania, Grigor immigrated to the US with his family when he was 11 years old. In Albania, his family owned an auto parts store. Once they relocated to the States, his family bought a dry cleaning business. In both these businesses, Grigor helped out when he could and got his first experiences in business and customer service. After his family sold the dry cleaning business, he got a job working at Mass Park Incorporated to help put himself through school. He attended Anna Maria College in Paxton where he had a double major in business and art. While at Anna Maria, he interned at the Museum of Russian Icons. Furthermore, he continued his employment at Mass Park holding various positions until he joined us here at Fishman to begin his career in business.

Though he is interested in pursuing a career in business, during his off time he still continues to pursue his other passion, painting. His primary media is watercolors, though he works in oil and pastel as well. He currently shows his work at exhibitions and sells his work though shows and online.

A talented and enthusiastic young man, we would like to welcome Grigor to the Fishman family and hope that you find him as polite and personable as we do here as he continues the Fishman tradition of providing personal service and first class customer service to every one of our customers.

Thank you for choosing Fishman for your dispensing needs.

For all of you new to this blog, El Presidente refers to the competition as “That 70′s Show” because the core of their technology is air pressure and it was first developed in the mid 1970′s.  Yikes!!!

All of El Presidente’s readers are intelligent people and a good percentage are trained engineers.  Using a common sense approach, it’s easy to see through the “smoke and mirrors” being used by the “That 70′s Show” community in a desperate attempt to convince their customer base their technology still matters 30+ years later.  For example, the basis of their claim is air outperforms positive displacement when dispensing fluid from a cylinder.  Of course we all know positive displacement always outperforms air just as we all know the sun is brighter than the moon.  That said, we should simply ignore claims that air pressure is better and end the blog right here but……for grins and giggles…….let’s address the “smoke and mirror” claims one by one.  This could be fun!

HOLLA!  HOLLA!  El Presidente declares the rebuttal commenced!

That 70′s Show Claim # 1

Air dispenses all fluids.

Positive displacement dispenses mostly two component fluids.

Huh?  Since 1997 Fishman’s AirFree® Linear Drive Patented Technology has competed with and defeated ”That 70′s Show” 1970 air driven technology on a wide range of fluids and they know it.  El Presidente has provided a few example tests as backup.  The truth is in the numbers.  One claim and El Presidente is already dizzy from the “Spin.”

That 70′s Show Claim # 2

Air – Real time display of air pressure and dispense time reflect actual dispensing parameters.

Positive Displacement – Displacement value on display is a mathematical computation of how far the lead screw travels – not how much fluid is displaced.

Huh?  What does that have to do with the price of Apples in China?  First Einstein, both systems displace fluid from a cylinder.  Last time I checked, inner diameter and distance traveled determines the amount of fluid dispensed.  To determine how much fluid is dispensed from the cylinder, both air and positive displacement use the same mathematical computation.

In actuality, neither system could tell you the exact amount of fluid dispensed because both are pushing on a column of fluid and the fluid’s flow rate impacts the output.  That said, the SmartDispenser™ is smart: it knows the syringe size, the fluid volume you want and calculates the distance it needs to travel to displace the proper fluid.  The air dispenser is stupid: it has no idea which syringe size is attached or what fluid volume you want and the first dispense is based on how you turn the knobs.  Do you know how far to turn the knobs?  Of course not, it is a total guessing game.  You have no idea what fluid volume will come out the end.  You have to spend hours in a trial and error process pushing buttons and turning knobs to find the right dispense volume.

Since 1975 “That 70′s Show” has not been able to allow customers to input a volume because air is so wildly out of control you can’t apply a mathematical computation to it.  Fishman’s technology uses a precision stepper motor and lead screw allowing you to input a volume, translated into steps of the motor, putting you very close to the correct dispense volume on the first try. Proof positive: if you set one up at your facility and El Presidente sets one up in his office and we use the same syringe, dispense tip and dispense program, each SmartDispenser™ will perform exactly the same.  YOU CAN’T DO THAT WITH AIR!  Because electricity is the same via the SmartDispenser™ power supply anywhere in the world.  Every air compressor and plumbing system is different from facility to facility.  Get it?  “That 70′s Show” is actually spinning one of their greatest weaknesses as a strength?  Wow!  Hilarious!  I bet they have a bridge to sell you too.

BTW: If you do want acutal verification of the amount you dispensed….you guessed it….EL Presidente and the 21st Centruy Marauders engineered it in…..The SmartDispenser can do it!  Yep.  Air can’t, too stupid!

That 70′s Show Claim # 3

Air – Simple adjustments maintain accuracy as barrel empties.

Positive Displacement – As barrel empties, lead screw pull back does not change so there is less fluid compression and the deposit consistency suffers.

Ok, we opened the blog making the point everyone on the planet knows positive displacement out performs air pressure when dispensing fluid from a cylinder.  Let me add the SmartDispenser’s™ predecessor product, the LDS9000®, was born from “That 70′s Show’s” customers complaining about having to make SIMPLE ADJUSTMENTS ALL DAY LONG!!!  Not so simple when you have to make them hundreds of times a day, are they?  Did I mention you never have to adjust the SmartDispenser™?  Set it and forget it.  Furthermore, in defense of “That 70′s Show’s” claim # 1 we presented hard testing data AirFree® technology drastically outperforms air systems in terms of fluid deposit repeatability.  To add insult to injury, the SmartDispenser’s™ patent pending ProcessControl2™ program uses an advanced algorithm to reduce lead screw backoff as the syringe empties.  So this claim is factually incorrect.  What next?  The moon landing was a fake, right?  Geeezeee!  Obviously the authors of these claims did not do their homework.  Surprised?  I’m not based on how exposed they are thus far.

Ok folks, this is an old fashioned butt kicking- 3-0 Elpresidente!  El Presidente needs to take a break to process how disappointing and misleading these claims are.  Listen, when a key vendor to your supply chain starts spinning the truth you need to dump that vendor right away.  If you rely on bad information and outdated equipment from a key vendor to make your product you are going to make inferior product.  I promise you El Presidente will be back to expose the remainder of these claims on my next blog, that is…….if the document is still published.  I think there may be a good chance this gets retracted very soon and someone is out of a job.  Score one for the good guys!

Please don’t forget to follow us on Twitter.  Check out our Flickr page.  We’ll have some informative new videos soon to add to the content on our YouTube page!  Join our Facebook page where soon as a “friend” you’ll have the opportunity to cash in on some budget saving discounts for being a loyal follower.  Stay tuned for a revamped and all new Linked In corporate page.  Of course, El Presidente gives a big shout of thanks to all the followers of this blog.  El Presidente loves the ” Fishman Peeps!”

El Presidente Out~

For more information on the benefits of AirFree® liquid Dispensing for catheter assembly or other medical device dispense applications, please visit our Medical Device Dispensing page

“In regards to validation we integrated the Windows 7 platform to allow flexibility for an open and closed loop process producing documented verification that actual performance meets the required goal.  We also wanted to create a platform allowing digital signing of the documented verification should a medical device manufacturer decide to use the verification data as part of their FDA compliance program.  The Windows 7 addition allows the current methods of manual and digital signing such as loading a proprietary digital signing software package, connecting to the local secure server or simply attaching a Windows approved printer for manual signing compliance.  A trend we see for 2010 and beyond for both medical device and other industries is cloud based activities.  For example, Microsoft® Corporation has made a commitment to Life Sciences/FDA Compliance by using SharePoint® for over the cloud digital signing of documents.  The SmartDispenser’s™ flexible platform is designed to seamlessly integrate with SharePoint® and other cloud based advancements as they become available over the next decade.  The user will be able to access directly from the manufacturing floor or a laptop, PC workstation or Smartphone using free LogMeIn professional service provided with each SmartDispenser™ purchase.”

The Mole: Advantage Fishman – Advantage Fishman Customer!  Stay tuned, as The Mole has some exciting new dispensing products coming this fall.  Please read more about the SmartDispenser™ as an Enterprise Wide Dispensing Solution at our website.

Please don’t forget to follow us on Twitter.  Check out our Flickr page.  We’ll have some informative new videos soon to add to the content on our YouTube page!  Join our Facebook page where soon as a “friend” you’ll have the opportunity to cash in on some budget saving discounts for being a loyal follower.  Stay tuned for a revamped and all new Linked In corporate page.  Of course, El Presidente gives a big shout of thanks to all the followers of this blog.  El Presidente loves the ” Fishman Peeps!”

El Presidente Out~