The Quest for Ultra-High Efficiency

Grundfos’s Greg Towsley on the rising demand for system-wide energy savings At the 2014 ASHRAE Winter Conference, Greg Towsley, director of regulatory and technical affairs...

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,...

Learning the Economics of Reliability

Reliability analytics company Pinnacle recently released its second Global Economics of Reliability Report, which analyzes the impact reliability has on the water and wastewater...

Tomorrow’s skills in today’s workforce

As the global energy landscape shifts towards sustainability, the demand for a skilled workforce in renewable energy continues to climb. This transformation reflects an...

Better Than a Rule of Thumb

Founded in 1993, Applied Flow Technology (AFT) is a leader in the pipe flow modeling software market and offers a comprehensive line of products...

A Tough Pump for Tough Times

Though the last twelve months presented challenges for several industries, many manufacturers navigated these troubled waters to bring new products to market. For example,...

Real-World Learning for Industry 4.0

In March of this year, Patti Engineering and Kettering University announced they will create an Industry 4.0-enabled collaborative robotic cell for a new classroom...

The Real-time Data Revolution Is Here

The use of real-time data has become a major leap forward in both efficiency and management decisions. Jim O’Rourke is an academic principal with...

Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Part 2 of 2

Paul Ruzicka is the chief engineer for Xylem Inc. and is currently managing the Xylem Engineering team in Seneca Falls, New York. To read...

The Next Generation of Centrifuge Manufacturing and Service

Centrisys/CNP recently completed a 34,000 square-foot building expansion, including an upgrade of its balancing equipment with a first-of-its-kind centrifuge balancing bunker in the interior...