One of the biggest developments in the world of technology over the last few years has been that of digital twins. A digital twin...

Corrosive plant environments are among the most serious threats to the pulp and paper industry, contributing to extensive production downtime and exorbitant maintenance costs....

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...

One of the major pump OEMs had invited Mechanical Solutions, Inc. to resolve an occurrence of multiple pump driveshaft failures for one of their...

Figure 1 During the first century of centrifugal compressor design, changes were evolutionary. A centrifugal compressor from 1900 looks very much like a centrifugal compressor...

Momentum for digital technologies in lab research is growing and was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused teams to rapidly adopt digital tools...

Read Part 1 here. We began this series reminding readers that OSIsoft would be retiring its popular data visualization tool kit, ProcessBook.  Since ProcessBook’s introduction...

Part 3 of a 3-Part Series In the first two parts this series, we looked at many of the ways in which pumps can...

Missed part 1? Read it here. In last month’s introduction, we discussed how double-containment piping, although not specifically required by today’s stricter safety mandates and...

For equipment designers in processing industries, there are aspects of any system that are more functional in nature, yet still critical. This includes gas,...