How to Check a Motor Armature for Damaged Windings
If you have access to a volt/ohm meter, there are three quick checks you can do that will tell you if a motor armature...
Charging Through With Temporary Power Solutions: Part 1 of 2
Raging heat waves, crippling ice storms, devastating drought—extreme weather has continued to accelerate in the past decade, claiming lives and causing untold devastation. Just...
Breaking The Cycle of Pump Repairs: Part 3 of 4
METHODS OF OIL APPLICATION
The traditional oil sump was depicted, in figure 5 (see earlier Part 2 of this series, “Insist on Better Pumps,” Modern...
Take a Serious Look at Your CIP Pump Maintenance Program
By Talmage Wagstaff
A CIP, or clean-in-place, system is vital to the daily operations of any food manufacturing facility. Without a CIP system in place that...
Combatting Corrosion
Whether pumping slurries and by-products, oil and gas, or water and wastewater, the components that make up an industrial fluid handling system suffer a...
Benefits of Installing Anti-stagnation Valves
By Peter Sucharda, Devine & Associates, and Mark Gimson, Cla-Val Company
On March 27, 2019, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, unanimously declared a climate change...
The Network Infrastructure for Industry 4.0
As we introduced in part 1 of this article last month, the potential of Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is huge and experts consider it...
Benefits of Installing Anti-stagnation Valves
By Peter Sucharda, Devine & Associates, and Mark Gimson, Cla-Val Company
Determining the optimal run time of the stagnation valve depends on a few parameters...
Addressing cybersecurity threats and safeguarding the manufacturing sector: Part 1 of...
Effective cybersecurity for critical infrastructure may pose one of the most significant threats to modern society. While local, state, and national policies address threats...
Root Cause Analysis: The Justification Game Part 2 of...
In last month’s introductory article, we discussed some of the barriers to selling not only the concept of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) but also...









