The Evolution of Lubrication Technology
When it comes to bearings, grease is often the lubricant of choice. However, over or under-greasing can cause overheating, lubricant deterioration, and eventual bearing...
Keeping It Cool on Shop Floors
Greg Olson is the heavy machine shop supervisor at Washington Iron Works located in Sherman, Texas. As a supervisor of a twelve-man crew working...
Purpose-built forged parts optimized for power generation
When forging seamless rolled rings for the power and energy industries, it is crucial to tailor components for their specific applications, or “end use.”...
Basic Pneumatic Circuits
By Pat Phillips, AutomationDirect
Pneumatics have been used in automated machines for well over 100 years, with pneumatic technology developing and evolving for over a...
Electronic Water-Conditioner Keeps Boilers Scale Free
San Antonio Housing Agency (SAHA) is saving thousands of dollars a year at its Woodhill Apartments on expensive maintenance and replacement boilers every six...
Eliminating System Pulsations and High Frequencies to Extreme Precision
GE Oil & Gas is developing subsea membrane-based water injection systems for improved oil recovery. The exploration and production activity in deeper waters, harsher...
Acorns, User Experience, and Optimization
Along the Tampa Riverwalk, while attending the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) convention, I saw the following quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The creation...
Double containment piping: Part 2 of 2
Missed part 1? Read it here.
In last month’s introduction, we discussed how double-containment piping, although not specifically required by today’s stricter safety mandates and...
Fire Codes: A Foundation of Safety for a Rapidly Changing World
The world’s tallest skyscrapers that are transforming city skylines from Shanghai to Dubai are impressive for their architecture and engineering, but perhaps their most...
Taking an Independent Path
Direct sourcing of electronic components for the industrial control equipment industry used to be pretty simple. An OEM would order direct from the manufacturer...