Industrial Data at Your Fingertips
IDEC Corporation has expanded its human machine interfaces (HMI) product family with the new HG2J Series 7-inch touchscreen HMI. Hardware and software advancements incorporated...
Maintenance Is No Surprise Part 1
Rotating machinery has an expected life cycle based upon engineered rate of wear due to load, lubricity and speed. Our predominant speed for machinery...
Taking the Heat at Arkansas Sawmill: Part 1 of 2
Humans have been using wood to construct shelters and other buildings for thousands of years. With the advent of metal tools wood could be...
Enabling Faster Insights with Advanced Analytics
From hybrid vehicles on the highways to wind turbines plugged into the power grid, there is evidence everywhere of technology working toward the goal...
Addressing Cybersecurity Threats and Safeguarding the Manufacturing Sector: Part 2 of...
Read part 1 here.
In the first part of this series, we laid out the importance of cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. Each year, as cyberattacks...
Supply Chain Resilience: Part 3 of 3
See Part 2 here: Supply Chain Resilience: Part 2 of 3
We’ve spent a large part of this series detailing the challenges to maintaining an...
Laser Cladding as a Technical Improvement Over Traditional Spray and Fuse...
Laser metal deposition on pump screw; Dan Hayden (left), Tim Wetherbe (right)
Typical weld characteristics are a single layer deposit thickness of around 0.04 inches,...
10 Total Cost of Ownership Myths Debunked
Discovering the true value in a higher purchase price for your mobile air compressor requires a shift in perspective. It's not just about the...
Lubrication Technology that Can Take the Heat
Across a variety of compressor applications, some things remain constant. Operators are seeking greater efficiency in the face of an increasingly volatile range of...
Meet the Future: Edge Programmable Industrial Controllers
Last year a glass products manufacturing company in Ohio presented their automation engineers with a new project: data from manufacturing lines needed to appear...









