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...
Improving Machine Uptime While Maintaining Safety Standards
By Christina Ducey, Fortress Technology
The industrial automation market in food safety and inspection is set to grow by $648.69 million between 2021 and 2025,...
Breaking The Cycle of Pump Repairs: Part 3 of 4
METHODS OF OIL APPLICATION
The traditional oil sump was depicted, in figure 5 (see earlier Part 2 of this series, “Insist on Better Pumps,” Modern...
Root Cause Analysis: The Justification Game Part 2 of...
In last month’s introductory article, we discussed some of the barriers to selling not only the concept of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) but also...
How Nuclear Plant Operators Are Evaluating the Potential for Vortex Formation...
Over the past several years many US Nuclear Power Stations have been required to take corrective action to address the potential for air entrainment...
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...
To Repair or to Replace, That is the Question
There are philosophical choices that have sparked some of the great debates of our time: Star Wars or Star Trek? Thin crust or deep...
Pump and System Curves for Multi-branched Systems
By Ben Keiser, Applied Flow Technology
Creating a pump and system curve for a simple piping system with a single flow path and no control...
Closing Tomorrow’s Skills Gap Today
The skills shortage in engineering services is very real and is hitting hard in some sectors of the economy. In particular, the Engineering Construction...
Soil Sampling for VOCs: Best Practices: Part 2 of 2
As we touched on in part 1 of this series, there are some limitations to low level analysis. Low level analysis is considered to...









