Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership Models: Part 1 of 2

Electric utilities are undergoing a transformation not seen since the Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity to rural America. The complex challenges facing electric distribution...

Machine Health Check: Automating Maintenance

By Klaus Helmrich, Siemens Digital Industries The sci-fi-sounding, near-magical benefits promised by Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) advocates are fast becoming a reality, and one...

The critical need for power failure alarms

Businesses across all industries rely on consistent power to keep operations running smoothly. However, unexpected outages are becoming increasingly common, putting critical assets, sensitive...

For Energy Companies, Tagging Regulations Require a New Approach

By Percy Hung and Peter Larison, Workiva Energy companies will soon start reporting quarterly and annual financial and operational data in XBRL format to the...

Maximum rotor protection and pump reliability

Progressing cavity pumps, sometimes referred to as screw pumps, are the workhorse for many industries when an application demands reliable, steady movement of often...

Going Beyond Monitoring with Remote Operation and Support

Although operating and maintaining a power plant remotely is an emerging challenge, remote operations support is not a new concept. Power plants have implemented...

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...

I/O for the IIOT: Part 1 of 2

By Benson Hougland, Opto 22 In an era of increasing connectivity and technical capabilities, it seems like simple ideas should be, well, simple to achieve....

Simulation and Vibration Analysis of Shaft Cracks

By Lin Liu, Zhuang Li, and Suri Ganeriwala, SpectraQuest, Inc. A shaft crack is a slowly growing fracture of the rotor. If undetected in an operating...

Measuring the Quality of Liquid Processes in Real Time

Collo’s new online measuring technology can detect nearly any change in liquid properties straight from the process in real time. The novel technology has...