Moving Your Control Forward

In keeping with their commitment to centralize and streamline industrial automation and control, Unitronics is announcing a new VFD line. Unitronics, the leading experts in...

Modal Testing of Pump Bearing Housings

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...

Intelligent Pumping Means Efficient Motor Use

Pump users are asking for greater efficiency and more integrated solutions from both their pumps and motors, and Grundfos constantly strives to make its...

For clean, mean machines

Siemens is introducing the new Simotics S-1FS2 line of servomotors, designed for the clean condition requirements of the food, beverage, sterile packaging, pharmaceutical and...

Growth Needed in the Power Sector

When you hear of industries pledging to meet “net zero” guidelines with regard to emissions output, you’d be forgiven for interpreting that as a...

Expert Motor Cooling Solutions Meet Dewatering Needs

Top pump manufacturers specialize in motor cooling technologies that enhance performance and durability. These systems are intended to perform in various applications, such as...

Finding Reliability at High Altitude

By CHRIS BRAND, ABB The open-pit gold-silver mine project by the South African mining company Gold Fields is located in the Atacama Desert among the...

Carbon Brush Redesign Solves Commutation Problem

Though DC motors may not be the latest state-of-the-art in technology, many railway and transit operators will trust in its reliability for many years...

Reducing Downtime with Better Grounding

By Matt Laufik, Electro Static Technology Pumps and pumping systems account for 25 percent of the energy consumed by electric motors in the United States....

Canned Motor Pumps Update

By Heinz P. Bloch As a reliability professional since 1962, the author had many occasions to evaluate industry experience and feedback (see reference 1). He...