Fire Codes: A Foundation of Safety for a Rapidly Changing World
The world’s tallest skyscrapers that are transforming city skylines from Shanghai to Dubai are impressive for their architecture and engineering, but perhaps their most...
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...
The New Iron Age
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...
Precise Dimensioning of Pump Piping Systems
Atechnical animation that visualizes the synchronization of three Triplex process diaphragm pumps in different operating states was one of the highlights at Lewa's booth...
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...
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...
Making More “Elbow” Room
In industrial installations, process plants are designed to minimize floor space. Abbreviated floor space can result in inadequate short runs of straight pipe required...
Going Beyond Monitoring with Remote Operation and Support
Although operating and maintaining a power plant remotely is an emerging challenge, remote operations support is not a new concept. Power plants have implemented...
Take a Tip from the Navy SEALs
When going after the world’s most infamous fugitive terrorist in 2011, the U.S. government theoretically could have sent in the Army’s entire 4th Infantry...
The Network Infrastructure for Industry 4.0
As we introduced in part 1 of this article last month, the potential of Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is huge and experts consider it...