Integrated Rupture Disk Assemblies for OEM Hydraulic and Pneumatic Equipment
By Geof Brazier, BS&B Safety Systems
For more than eighty-five years, rupture disks have served as an effective passive safety mechanism to protect against overpressure...
Wasted Energy Means Wasted Dollars: Part 1 of 3
Electrical energy represents a substantial portion of industrial operating expenses. It is an unavoidable cost of doing business that all too often seems resistant...
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...
Supply Chain Resilience: Part 3 of 3
See Part 2 here: Supply Chain Resilience: Part 2 of 3
We’ve spent a large part of this series detailing the challenges to maintaining an...
Electrical Signature Analysis for Power Plant Pump Performance Assessment
One nuclear power generating facility, located in the Northeastern United States, relies on four vertical service water pumps to feed water to a heat...
Know Your Pump Base Plate Installation Options
Part 3 of a 3-Part Series In the first two parts this series, we looked at many of the ways in which pumps can...
Choosing The Best Alternatives In Industrial Analytics: Part 1 of 2
In late 2020, project managers in fields as diverse as oil and gas, chemical processing, food and beverage, and more, received news that OSIsoft...
Controlling Dangerous Dusts in the Chemical Processing Industry: Part 2 of...
By David Steil, Camfil Air Pollution Control
In the previous month’s introduction, we set out to examine the dangers of combustible dust generated in chemical...
Making More “Elbow” Room
In industrial installations, process plants are designed to minimize floor space. Abbreviated floor space can result in inadequate short runs of straight pipe required...
Proper Equipment Calibration Essential to Accurate Gas Sample Analysis
Gas sampling equipment is one of the most widely used tools in medical, food processing, brewing and landfill gas (LFG) monitoring applications. Units range...









