How to Lower Your Maintenance Cost With the Selection of Durable...
Industrial processes rely on multiple valves that require proper maintenance for sustainable operation. Valves provide means to control the direction and flow rates for...
The importance of Adopting New Automation and AI Technology
In an increasingly automated world, the importance of digital transformation, IoT, AI, and Industry 4.0 has been recognized within a range of industries, and...
The Key to Factory Optimization
Digital twins are like virtual copies that help factories work better. By analyzing these virtual models, companies can prevent costly mistakes, improve production speed,...
Reducing Environmental Friction with High-performance Coatings
By Logan Walz, Oerlikon Balzers
Specialized physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings are widely recognized for the critical role they perform in enhancing operational performance and...
Going Beyond Efficiency Standards: Part 2 of 2
By Ben Keiser, Applied Flow Technology
As we discussed in the first part of this series, four years ago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...
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...
Enabling Faster Insights with Advanced Analytics
From hybrid vehicles on the highways to wind turbines plugged into the power grid, there is evidence everywhere of technology working toward the goal...
Choosing The Best Alternatives In Industrial Analytics: Part 1 of 2
In late 2020, project managers in fields as diverse as oil and gas, chemical processing, food and beverage, and more, received news that OSIsoft...
Scaling Single-use Liquid Dispensing from R&D to Automated Production
By Del Williams
At pharmaceutical companies, including those that deal with reagents, buffers, biologics, cells, immunotherapy, and similar products, liquid measurement and filling is often...
Supply Chain Resilience: Part 2 of 3
see Part 1 here
In the first part of this series, we introduced how the vulnerabilities now exposed within lean manufacturing models are threatening supply...









