The skills shortage in engineering services is very real and is hitting hard in some sectors of the economy. In particular, the Engineering Construction...

Successfully maintaining a pump system takes countless man-hours and sizeable investment capital. However, one of the most critical steps in ensuring a pump operates...

By Geof Brazier, BS&B Safety Systems For more than eighty-five years, rupture disks have served as an effective passive safety mechanism to protect against overpressure...

While corrosion is a serious issue in virtually all oil, gas, pipeline, and industrial facilities, it is a particular challenge for the liquid natural...

Across a range of industries, 3D printing technology is changing what manufacturers, design engineers, and maintenance professionals think is possible. The old cost-benefit analysis...

For decades, cost efficiency drove the global offshoring trend, reshaping how and where industrial components were made. But recent years have cast a harsh...

Last year a glass products manufacturing company in Ohio presented their automation engineers with a new project: data from manufacturing lines needed to appear...

In today’s economic climate, power generation providers are stuck between the equipment they need and the equipment they can afford. However, as a recent...

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...

Although operating and maintaining a power plant remotely is an emerging challenge, remote operations support is not a new concept. Power plants have implemented...