HVAC remote monitoring with the right sensors
Facility managers have a lot on their plate. They are responsible for ensuring that a property's equipment and environmental systems function at all times...
Reliability Gets Its Groove Back
Experienced industrial automation manufacturer and an industrial internet of things tools developer Opto 22 today announced a groundbreaking new industrial system to address the...
Reducing Environmental Friction with High-performance Coatings
By Logan Walz, Oerlikon Balzers
Specialized physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings are widely recognized for the critical role they perform in enhancing operational performance and...
The entry point for pump excellence: Part 2 of 2
Miss part 1? Read it here.
The first part of this series explored international and industry standards—namely ANSI, API, ASME, and ISO—and now we turn...
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...
Unprecedented Innovation for Wastewater Contaminant Testing
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments and PACE Analytical Services have developed an alternate test procedure (ATP) to EPA Method 1613B—PAM-16130-SSI: Determination of 2,3,7,8-substituted tetra- through octa-chlorinated...
When and How to Upgrade Your Vertical Pumps
By Heinz P. Bloch
High asset reliability should be our priority, because the illusory “savings” derived from forever repairing cheap equipment have vanished with the...
Therein Lies the Rub
In this article, the vibration signature on bearing housing caused by shaft rub was studied through applying a rotor rub device on a Machinery...
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...
Dare to Compare
The chain of events is easy to predict. In municipalities ranging from diverse economic powerhouses to quaint rural villages, centrifugal pumps are relied on...









