By Peter Sucharda, Devine & Associates, and Mark Gimson, Cla-Val Company Determining the optimal run time of the stagnation valve depends on a few parameters...

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...

By Peter Sucharda, Devine & Associates, and Mark Gimson, Cla-Val Company On March 27, 2019, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, unanimously declared a climate change...

By Dean Solberg and Steve Young, Exact Metrology Many industrial sites present inhospitable environments, where the health and safety of the employees and visitors are...

By David Steil, Camfil Air Pollution Control In the previous month’s introduction, we set out to examine the dangers of combustible dust generated in chemical...

By Logan Walz, Oerlikon Balzers Specialized physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings are widely recognized for the critical role they perform in enhancing operational performance and...

By David Steil, Camfil Air Pollution Control Effectively controlling toxic and combustible dust generated in chemical processing facilities is essential to protecting employee health, maintaining...

By Del Williams Industrial manufacturers require production reliability and continuity. However, a wide range of conditions can make this challenging—from unexpected emergencies, power grid failures...

By Geof Brazier, BS&B Safety Systems For more than eighty-five years, rupture disks have served as an effective passive safety mechanism to protect against overpressure...

By Talmage Wagstaff A CIP, or clean-in-place, system is vital to the daily operations of any food manufacturing facility. Without a CIP system in place that...