By Patrick Nein and Alexander Bailey, Mueller Water Products With any waterworks device that will be buried in the ground for long periods, regularly exceeding...

Rotating machinery has an expected life cycle based upon engineered rate of wear due to load, lubricity and speed. Our predominant speed for machinery...

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

At the factories that produce the materials and goods essential to the nation, supply chain issues have continued to accelerate since 2020. However, factory...

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...

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...

Chemometrics, the application of statistics to the field of chemical analysis, is often used in the oil and gas industry to make product quality...

Read part 1 here. In the first part of this series, we laid out the importance of cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. Each year, as cyberattacks...

Aalberts integrated piping systems (IPS), a global leader in advanced integrated piping systems for the distribution and control of liquids and gasses, is proud...

Sand, sludge, corrosives, abrasives, and myriad other challenging fluid components tear into the working surfaces of pumps hour after hour, gradually or catastrophically deteriorating...