Taking the Heat at Arkansas Sawmill: Part 1 of 2
Humans have been using wood to construct shelters and other buildings for thousands of years. With the advent of metal tools wood could be...
Milking the Market Sustainably
The United States is the third biggest contributor to food waste, throwing away almost one-third of the food it produces. According to Earth.org, 5.9...
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...
How Vibration Monitoring and Preventive Maintenance Increase Efficiency
In most scenarios, preventive maintenance is a more cost- and time-effective solution to increase efficiency rather than waiting for it to fail and having...
Protecting Industrial Facilities from Harsh Environmental Corrosion
By Del Williams
In industrial process facilities, corrosion is the biggest single cause of plant and equipment breakdown, including machinery, vessels, structures, supports, and pipelines....
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...
Sourcing Electronic Components Post-Pandemic
With the unprecedented, once-in-a-lifetime disruption of the supply chain for electronic components in the rear-view mirror, the market is finally beginning to stabilize. For...
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...
Machine Health Check: Automating Maintenance
By Klaus Helmrich, Siemens Digital Industries
The sci-fi-sounding, near-magical benefits promised by Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) advocates are fast becoming a reality, and one...
Achieving true ultra-fine grit removal: Part 2 of 2
Read part 1 here.
In the first part of this series, we explored some of the factors creating the rising demand for high-efficiency grit removal...









