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...
What Really Goes Into a Full-Service Engineering Project?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, engineering solutions are not simply about supplying equipment or carrying out the required work. When it comes to delivering effective services, a...
Revitalizing the Civil Nuclear Industry
What has an SME Tier 2 welding and pressure-vessel fabrication business in Mid Glamorgan got in common with the global behemoths of nuclear engineering:...
Basic Pneumatic Circuits: Part 2 of 2
By Pat Phillips, AutomationDirect
In the first part of this series, we laid out the four basic pneumatic circuits as well as the prerequisites for...
Modern Vibration Analysis Following Bearing Damage Progression to Failure Mode
Imagine a vibration transducer mounted close to the load zone of a bearing (see figure 1). Also imagine that when a rolling element passes...
How Many Mils Is Your Coating?
From the job shop to the robotic assembly floor, it is vital that the product be made well and correctly coated for protection, aesthetics,...
So Pure, So Clean
When it comes to choosing the right tool steel, there is often only one criterion in the foreground: the price. But this is exactly...
Automatic Lubrication Systems Stand Up to Corrosive, Caustic Environments: Part 2...
In this conclusion, we detail three of the most common lubrication systems pump users rely upon: the Single-Line Parallel, which is also referred to...
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...
Extraordinary insights mined by analyzing mass of measurement data
In essentially every field of manufacturing today, professionals use sophisticated equipment to track and report data collected while measuring and testing raw materials, in-process...