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...
Compact Controllers Increase ROI For Machine Builders
To stay competitive, today’s OEM machine builders must provide equipment that is ready to support analytics and give end users competitive advantage through increased...
Graphalloy Bearings for LNG Pump Problems
By Eric Ford, Graphite Metallizing Corporation
Graphalloy bearings and bushings, manufactured by Graphite Metallizing Corporation, are used in many light hydrocarbon pump applications to help...
Smart Monitoring Tracks Pump Operation and Provides Operating Figures
By Sebastian Gatzhammer, Lewa GmbH
The new monitoring system from Lewa lets operators sleep more soundly and makes pumps smart-factory-ready: In addition to detecting malfunctions...
Immersive Mixed Reality in Manufacturing
By Dijam Panigrahi, GridRaster
The race continues between the world’s largest tech leaders and companies to see which one will prevail and power the next...
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...
Preventing factory fires with essential monitoring equipment
At the factories that produce the materials and goods essential to the nation, supply chain issues have continued to accelerate since 2020. However, factory...
Root Cause Analysis: The Justification Game
How often are good ideas turned away because we cannot seem to justify their returns with hard dollars? More often than not, it is...
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...
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...