How Safe Is America’s Infrastructure?
America’s infrastructure needs work. The nation’s bridges and buildings—both old and new—were designed to avoid collapsing during an earthquake or other major catastrophe, but...
The Communication Problem in Channel Sales
LeadMethod, headquartered in Bend, Oregon, is a lead and channel management software company that works with industrial manufacturers which sell through outside reps and...
The Internet of Things and the Pump Market
Joanne Goh is a research analyst in the manufacturing technology group at IHS Markit. Her focus areas are motor systems and motor-driven equipment across...
Change Is On the Horizon
Late last year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) enacted the Energy Conservation Standard for Pumps for all domestic pumps. The first of their...
The Manufacturing Sector’s Ticking “Biological Clock”
As the senior director of partner program management at ThomasNet.com, Susan Orr is responsible for overall program management including partner on-boarding, operational integration, collaborative...
Oklahoma Land Rush
The Greater Anadarko Basin in the American West has been a prolific source of conventional U.S. oil and gas production since the 1950s. However,...
Expanding the Horizons of Predictive Industrial Maintenance
The Energy Management Association was founded by its affiliate, the AABC Commissioning Group (ACG), one of the world’s leading associations of certified commissioning authorities,...
Keeping Cool for the Sake of Safety
For over thirty-five years, ThermOmegaTech® has been a leader in the design and manufacture of self-actuating temperature control technology, serving a multitude of industries...
Eliminating Industrial Energy Waste and Unplanned Downtime
Samotics is a leading provider of real-time actionable insights to optimize performance and energy efficiency of AC motors and rotating equipment and recently launched...
Tough Conditions Require Tougher Solutions
As smart technology and AI are adapted into more areas of industrialization, these technologies are entering conditions once believed too harsh or hazardous for...