Eliminating Pipe Failures from Pneumatic Conveying Line
Robert Forgione, P.E. and his team at the Upper Occoquan Water Reclamation Plant in Centreville, Virginia were wading through yet another dust cloud to...
Maximizing Pump Performance for Submersible Wastewater Pumps
Motor design is key to the performance and service life of a pump. But determining the size of the motor required to drive the...
New Chemical Feed Pump at Minnesota Water Treatment Facility Reduces Maintenance...
The Victoria, Minnesota, water treatment facility needed a new pump to feed sodium hypochlorite under high pressure into the post-chlorination cycle of their water...
Progressing Cavity Pumps Lower Maintenance Costs and Reduce Downtime for Municipal...
Like many municipal wastewater treatment facilities across the country, a wastewater authority in Illinois was looking for a better way to dispose of the...
Supply Chain Resilience: Part 2 of 3
see Part 1 here
In the first part of this series, we introduced how the vulnerabilities now exposed within lean manufacturing models are threatening supply...
Estimating True Life-cycle Cost
By Ben Keiser, Applied Flow Technology
We all want reliable pumps and piping systems that meet requirements with a cost-effective design. The resulting design may...
Training Reliability Professionals and Subject Matter Experts
Before we elaborate on the specific steps in the training and learning processes, it’s best to just re-emphasize an important fact: Accepting that the...
Closing Tomorrow’s Skills Gap Today
The skills shortage in engineering services is very real and is hitting hard in some sectors of the economy. In particular, the Engineering Construction...
Meet the Future: Edge Programmable Industrial Controllers
Last year a glass products manufacturing company in Ohio presented their automation engineers with a new project: data from manufacturing lines needed to appear...
Keeping the Lights On . . . Affordably
In today’s economic climate, power generation providers are stuck between the equipment they need and the equipment they can afford. However, as a recent...









