How Many Mils Is Your Coating?

From the job shop to the robotic assembly floor, it is vital that the product be made well and correctly coated for protection, aesthetics,...

Equipment Maintenance and Monitoring Best Practices

Pumping machinery is continually subjected to wear and tear and therefore is vulnerable to failure. Correct operation, timely maintenance, and upkeep of pumping station...

Automatic Lubrication Systems Stand Up to Corrosive, Caustic Environments: Part 1...

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

Frontloading computational fluid dynamics benefits everyone: Part 2 of 2

see Part 1 here The benefits of simulating early as a part of the design process have been documented extensively. The cost of each engineering...

Five Ways To Use CMMS To Improve Plant Safety

By Bryan Christiansen, Limble CMMS Within the modern plant setup, the reliability and safety of assets take center stage. As competition soars, organizations seek innovative...

Unique Coating Reduces Friction of Sliding Ceramic, Metallic, and Polymer Components

Components used in water, lubricated, or submersed environments, face considerable tribological challenges that can ultimately affect performance and reduce the life of the larger...

The right size at your fingertips

For decades, selecting and sizing control valves was a complex and time-consuming task. Only large control valve manufacturers provided the necessary tools, and they...

Making More “Elbow” Room

In industrial installations, process plants are designed to minimize floor space. Abbreviated floor space can result in inadequate short runs of straight pipe required...

Audible and Visible Signals Reduce Risk of Dangerous, Costly Accidents

By Jacob Vernon, Pfannenberg This past June was #NationalSafetyMonth, an opportunity to raise awareness about significant dangers to technicians, operators, and other workers on the...

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...