AJK Glass consulting

andy kandik

From container and tableware forming floors to R&D labs and pilot lines, solving problems, training teams, and delivering results worldwide.

Supporting both container and tableware processes — because glass isn’t one process, it’s many.

GLASS FORMING SPECIALIST & CONSULTANT

services

Digital display showing glass bottle inspection data with two glass bottle visuals, measurements, analysis statistics, and reject counts, on a black background. Currently showing a screen from the Cortex ISWatch.

Hot End Technology Implementation

Air quality monitoring chart for different sections, showing color-coded circles with numbers indicating readings. Image shown is the BlankWatch system by Cortex, but Tiama, Konetic, and Emhart have their versions.
Glass bottles being shaped in a manufacturing factory, with hot, glowing glass and machinery for glass molding. IS style machine producing either beer bottles or wine bottles.

Forming Process Troubleshooting

A glass bottle manufacturing process on an assembly line with glowing molten glass bottles being shaped and cooled. H-28 or Harford style machine used to make Tableware either Tumblers, stretch stemware or 2-piece stemware.
Diagram of a feeder differential adjustment system for gob shaping in a manufacturing process, showing components and cam adjustments. Gob for the Job

Operator Training & Development

Graph showing long-term air temperature and pressure deviations over 24 hours, with icons of the sun indicating daytime periods. The chart includes annotations about air gas laws and the density of cooled versus hot air, related to a machine cooling wind system.

Ongoing insight from the Forming floor

I regularly share real-world forming observations, process challenges, and technology lessons as they happen on the floor.

Here are two of my articles from the March 2025 and March 2026 issues of Glass International.

I share additional ongoing insight on LinkedIn

REPLACING INSTINCT IN FORMING

Glass International March 2026 article by Andy Kandik, Replacing Instinct in Forming, on why visibility at the forming machine is critical to process stability. Page 1, with blank side cameras and gob imaging cameras.
Glass International March 2026 article by Andy Kandik, Replacing Instinct in Forming. Page 2, covering modern monitoring, swabbing, and bottom inspection examples.

THE CHALLENGE FACING THE GLASS INDUSTRY: A CALL FOR CHANGE

Glass International March 2025 edition about the lack of training in the glass industry and how it is losing the battle against itself and plastic and aluminum.
A magazine article with a portrait of a smiling man wearing an orange jacket over a black shirt, superimposed over a background of industrial glass manufacturing process, including hot glass and equipment. Glass International article March 2025
Page from a magazine or report discussing glass manufacturing, forming process, hidden costs, and industry changes, titled 'Forming'. Glass International Article march 2025

REAL EXPERIENCE

REAL GLASS