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...

Eliminating System Pulsations and High Frequencies to Extreme Precision

GE Oil & Gas is developing subsea membrane-based water injection systems for improved oil recovery. The exploration and production activity in deeper waters, harsher...

Innovation Drives End-to-End Solutions in Norway

GE Vernova, a dynamic accelerator comprised of GE’s Power, Renewable Energy, Digital, and Energy Financial Services businesses, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with...

Pipeline Collapse Shows Urgent Need for Two-Way Air Valves

The recent catastrophic collapse of a pipeline at a $10 million project in Central America is clear proof that current procurement of air valves...

Wasted Energy Means Wasted Dollars: Part 1 of 3

Electrical energy represents a substantial portion of industrial operating expenses. It is an unavoidable cost of doing business that all too often seems resistant...

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...

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...

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...

Meet the Future: Edge Programmable Industrial Controllers

Last year a glass products manufacturing company in Ohio presented their automation engineers with a new project: data from manufacturing lines needed to appear...

Take a Tip from the Navy SEALs

When going after the world’s most infamous fugitive terrorist in 2011, the U.S. government theoretically could have sent in the Army’s entire 4th Infantry...