Optimize Food Production: Real-Time Monitoring with Video Surveillance
Food production plants are under more scrutiny than ever. On the one hand, they have to deal with the high inflation rate in the past couple of years, which pressures them to keep prices low, despite...
View ArticlePreserving Reputation Through Reliability
Industrial businesses regularly face high costs related to downtime. This was the finding of an ABB survey among 3,215 plant maintenance leaders across sectors such as energy, metals, utilities,...
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IIoT Sensors, Analytics and the Digitally Enabled Scorecards of Winning Teams
As a former manufacturing director of a large facility, I was tasked with ‘implementing a digital transformation’ - a vague request with a checkbox next to it. In my case, this meant using smart...
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Quality Gearing Keeps Mission-Critical Systems Rotating for Combat
Power transmission and gear components must meet extreme performance and reliability demands in order to prove effective on the battlefield. That’s because they are the heart of rotating mechanisms...
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Pharma Web Client Computing Devices Facilitate Integration of Web-Based...
Operators in pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities have long depended on Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) to offer a visual summary of process systems that simplifies the monitoring of crucial status...
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Precision Grinding Assures Fast, Compliant MRO Repairs
For aircraft MROs, precision grinding plays an important role in the maintenance, repair and overhaul of various critical components to achieve safety and compliance. At the top of the list is aircraft...
View Article10 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your Compressed Air Piping System
How old is your compressed air piping system? Ensuring your compressed air distribution system operates efficiently is crucial for the overall efficiency and performance of your compressed air system....
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Rupture Disk Design Delivers High Performance Pressure Relief
Processors and OEMs have long relied on rupture disk devices, which serve as an effective passive safety mechanism to protect against potentially damaging overpressure or vacuum conditions in...
View ArticleA Beginner's Guide to Additive Manufacturing
Although it’s not a new technology in the strictest sense, additive manufacturing (AM) — sometimes referred to as 3D printing — has attracted significant attention in recent years. And there are many...
View ArticleWhy is a Thermal Management Plan for Enclosures Important?
Manufacturing facilities’ electrical enclosures can house hundreds of thousands of dollars in high-performance drives and electronics critical to production processes. These critical electrical...
View ArticleHigh-Precision Electric Actuators Help Keep Trains Running Smoothly
The United States has about 160,000 miles of operational railroads, mostly composed of 39-foot rail segments welded end to end. Unless these connections and the rail surfaces are perfectly smooth, the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Motors, Drives and Loads
Motor-driven loads like compressors, fans and pumps are at the heart of modern manufacturing. Many facilities have incorporated adjustable speed drives (ASDs) into their motors in the interest of...
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Machine Shops Profit from Near Net Shape Forgings
Machine shops often need open die forged parts for a variety of applications, including large, custom parts, small quantity runs or when high strength and durability are required. When this is the...
View ArticleOptimize Food Production: Real-Time Monitoring with Video Surveillance
Food production plants are under more scrutiny than ever. On the one hand, they have to deal with the high inflation rate in the past couple of years, which pressures them to keep prices low, despite...
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