Taking an Independent Path

Direct sourcing of electronic components for the industrial control equipment industry used to be pretty simple. An OEM would order direct from the manufacturer...

Process Pumps: Obstacles to Reliability

Figure 2: Modern Water Management Systems conserve valuable resources, achieve significant maintenance cost reductions, and greatly increase process unit profitability. Paybacks of less than...

For Landfill and Remediation Pumping, AutoPumps Can Take the Heat

AutoPumps are air-powered positive displacement pumps that require no surface timer-based controllers, bubblers, or sensors in the well to operate. The pump is activated...

High-performance oil-soluble cleaner reduces cost of operation

Across an array of industrial applications, the performance of gas or steam turbines, compressors, and hydraulic systems is a critical factor for maintaining reliability...

Banking Electronic Chips for the Next Boom (or Bust)

Today, the parallels between the electronic chips that power just about every type of device today and the global oil market are undeniable, with...

Benefits of Installing Anti-stagnation Valves

By Peter Sucharda, Devine & Associates, and Mark Gimson, Cla-Val Company On March 27, 2019, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, unanimously declared a climate change...

Immersive Mixed Reality in Manufacturing

By Dijam Panigrahi, GridRaster The race continues between the world’s largest tech leaders and companies to see which one will prevail and power the next...

Acorns, User Experience, and Optimization

Along the Tampa Riverwalk, while attending the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) convention, I saw the following quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The creation...

Simplifying the Search for the Perfect Fluid Sensor

Move from search to solution quicker and more successfully A search on Google for “sensors” delivers 38,600,000 results. Even the more specific search for “liquid...

Know Your Pump Base Plate Installation Options

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...