Reliability Starts from the Ground Up
Asolid foundation is a proven way to increase the mean time between planned maintenance for most types of rotating equipment. Pump bases and foundations...
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...
Maximizing Pump Performance for Submersible Wastewater Pumps
Motor design is key to the performance and service life of a pump. But determining the size of the motor required to drive the...
How Nuclear Plant Operators Are Evaluating the Potential for Vortex Formation...
Over the past several years many US Nuclear Power Stations have been required to take corrective action to address the potential for air entrainment...
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...
The Network Infrastructure for Industry 4.0
As we introduced in part 1 of this article last month, the potential of Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is huge and experts consider it...
The Proper Pump, Maintenance, and Air Line Accessories Mitigate Problems Caused...
Pump operators should use filters and regulators when needed to condition the air supply. This encourages more reliable pump performance and reduces equipment wear...
Combatting Corrosion
Whether pumping slurries and by-products, oil and gas, or water and wastewater, the components that make up an industrial fluid handling system suffer a...
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...
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...