In essentially every field of manufacturing today, professionals use sophisticated equipment to track and report data collected while measuring and testing raw materials, in-process...

Machine safety will always be a concern across myriad fields in the industrial sector. However, despite technological advances and careful regulatory oversight, some operators...

Read Part 1 here. We began this series reminding readers that OSIsoft would be retiring its popular data visualization tool kit, ProcessBook.  Since ProcessBook’s introduction...

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By Bill Moore, XONA On many fronts, 2020 is a year of adaptation and refinement. This is especially true for utilities, like oil and gas...

As in all professions, there are individuals who graduated near the top of their class, and others who graduated last. Rarely would we want...

The global competitive landscape for manufacturing is squeezing everyone—from the Tier 1 automotive companies to electronics goods manufacturers. It is shortening the required time...

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...

In the industrial and manufacturing sector, it’s important to make the most of the information provided by intelligent measurement devices. The usefulness of this...