Meet the New Breed of Thermoplastic Polymer Composites for Pumps
EGC Critical Components, a leading manufacturer of high-performance thermoplastic performance-critical components, today announced its dures™ brand of materials—a new family of proprietary thermoplastic polymer...
Choosing the Best Alternatives in Industrial Analytics: Part 2 of 2
Read Part 1 here.
We began this series reminding readers that OSIsoft would be retiring its popular data visualization tool kit, ProcessBook. Since ProcessBook’s introduction...
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...
Monitoring Where You Need It
Ensuring optimal temperatures is paramount for many industries, from healthcare to food processing. It can help companies safeguard employees and comply with regulations. A...
Wasted Energy Means Wasted Dollars: Part 3 of 3
In the conclusion of this series, we will examine the necessity of a functional precision alignment program, specifically how savings will begin to accrue...
Audible and Visible Signals Reduce Risk of Dangerous, Costly Accidents
By Jacob Vernon, Pfannenberg
This past June was #NationalSafetyMonth, an opportunity to raise awareness about significant dangers to technicians, operators, and other workers on the...
System Health Monitoring Delivers Far-Reaching Operational Insights
Earlier this year, Control Station launched System Health Monitoring (SHM), a tiered service offering that leverages intelligence captured by the company’s PlantESP Loop Performance...
Improving Cooling Tower Filtration: Part 2 of 2
The following case study describes one end-user’s experience with multiple filtration technologies and their inherent advantages and disadvantages in their cooling tower systems. In...
Securing Golden Screws “Just in Case”
For decades, the general wisdom in approaching manufacturing has been to rely on a “just in time” strategy to ensure component parts are available...
Outsourcing Critical Aspects of Processing Systems
For equipment designers in processing industries, there are aspects of any system that are more functional in nature, yet still critical. This includes gas,...









