Fire Codes: A Foundation of Safety for a Rapidly Changing World
The world’s tallest skyscrapers that are transforming city skylines from Shanghai to Dubai are impressive for their architecture and engineering, but perhaps their most...
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...
Prevent Expensive Pump Cavitation Damage
Process engineers responsible for keeping the pumps running in plants crowded with equipment and awkward pipe layouts will find the Vortab Elbow Flow Conditioner...
How Nuclear Plant Operators Are Evaluating the Potential for Vortex Formation...
Amodel of the tank and outlet piping of interest are constructed to the geometric scale based on the considerations described above. The suction pipe...
Modern Vibration Analysis Following Bearing Damage Progression to Failure Mode
Imagine a vibration transducer mounted close to the load zone of a bearing (see figure 1). Also imagine that when a rolling element passes...
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...
Breaking The Cycle of Pump Repairs: Part 3 of 4
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...
Curing a Raw Water Pumping Facility’s Unremitting Driveshaft Failures Part 2...
In the first part of this article, a major pump OEMs had invited Mechanical Solutions, Inc. to resolve an occurrence of multiple pump driveshaft...
The New Iron Age
Across a range of industries, 3D printing technology is changing what manufacturers, design engineers, and maintenance professionals think is possible. The old cost-benefit analysis...
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...