Explaining Unexplained Failures: Breaking the Cycle of Pump Repairs Part 4
Lubricant contamination originates from a number of possible sources and can also be a factor in so-called unexplained repeat failures. As if it requires...
New Chemical Feed Pump at Minnesota Water Treatment Facility Reduces Maintenance...
The Victoria, Minnesota, water treatment facility needed a new pump to feed sodium hypochlorite under high pressure into the post-chlorination cycle of their water...
Improve Environmental Remediation Operations with Remote Monitoring
By Rob Fusco, Sensaphone
Environmental remediation projects can take months to years of around-the-clock extraction of pollutants to clear water and soil of contaminants from...
The Importance of AHRI Standard 400
In November 2015, the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute released an updated “Standards for Performance Rating of Liquid to Liquid Heat Exchangers,” for the...
Digital Transformation in the Age of IIoT: Part 2 of 2
INSIGHT #5
If manufacturers can fully leverage the benefits of digitization, all the way from core manufacturing out to the end-user experience, the opportunities are...
Achieving true ultra-fine grit removal: Part 2 of 2
Read part 1 here.
In the first part of this series, we explored some of the factors creating the rising demand for high-efficiency grit removal...
Simulation and Vibration Analysis of Shaft Cracks
By Lin Liu, Zhuang Li, and Suri Ganeriwala, SpectraQuest, Inc.
A shaft crack is a slowly growing fracture of the rotor. If undetected in an operating...
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...
Take a Serious Look at Your CIP Pump Maintenance Program
By Talmage Wagstaff
A CIP, or clean-in-place, system is vital to the daily operations of any food manufacturing facility. Without a CIP system in place that...
The Disastrous Consequences of Neglecting Health and Safety
When it comes to health and safety in food and drink factories, many tend focus on hygiene within production and the threat of contamination...









