By David Pell, Voith Turbo North America A petroleum refiner in the Southern United States placed two orders for Voith’s new VoreconNX variable speed drive and...

By Cliff Knight, KnightHawk Engineering Pumps are subject to many sources of excitation. If you are lucky you can avoid some of them, but some...

SKF has supplied magnetic bearings for use in the world’s first subsea gas compression system at the Asgard gas field off the Norwegian coast....

By Claudia Proeger, Sulzer Not many service providers can deliver complex service solutions to all types of rotating equipment regardless of the original equipment manufacturer...

End users or service centers often need to specify replacement pumps or pump motors, sometimes involving a retrofit or re-application project. A successful outcome...

As renewables grow in the energy mix used by North American power producers, keeping generating assets best utilized requires operating them with a flexibility...

There are many important items to consider when choosing a controller for machine and process automation. Breaking down the equipment’s operational needs is a...

No matter what the specific application or industry focus, efficiency is key for ensuring optimized operations in industrial facilities. But high efficiency means more...

Medium range voltage motors serve a broad range of industries and applications, including oil and gas, petrochemical processing, mining, pumping systems, and compression equipment....

As we saw in part 1 of this series, bearings, gears, rollers, and other precision components can experience excessive wear in applications with metal-to-metal...