FLOWSERVE: Digital Positioner Features Predictive Diagnostics
Flowserve Corporation has released the Flowserve Logix 3400MD, the newest member of the Logix series digital positioner family.
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When Accessories Become Necessities
Specification sheets for selecting automated valves list requirements for the valve and actuator but often lump all other devices together as related instrumentation or accessories.
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To Market, to Market: Launching a New Product or a New Company
What does it take to bring out a new product in the valve and actuator industry?
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Sorting Out Wireless Standards for Smart Valves and Actuators
Back in the ’90s Profibus and Foundation fieldbus competed to replace 4-20 mA communication for field devices like valves and process transmitters with all-digital systems.
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Actuators Propel Wind Turbines
We in the valve industry tend to think of actuators as operating valves, but they’re used in other fields as well, including such alternate energy applications as wind turbines.
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Electric Valve Actuators Set to Move into Control Applications
Electric valve actuators have made great progress in the past few years, in both performance and acceptance.
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2009 Market Outlook: Riding Out The Storm
The atmosphere at VMA's Annual Market Outlook Workshop, held Aug. 14-15 in Boston, was more somber than in years' past as attendees-primarily manufacturers of valves, actuators, controls and pumps-listened to speaker after speaker predict continued, even worsening, troubles in the economy, in the United States and around the world.
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Grease for Motor Actuator Maintenance
Maintaining the right amount of grease inside motor actuators that use grease for lubrication is a vital part of valve maintenance, and can save time and money by preventing problems before they happen.
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Don't Overlook Linear Actuators on Gate Valves
At a recent sales meeting in California, I was surprised to discover the lack of awareness regarding linear valve actuators.
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Specialized Designs for Pipeline Valve Actuation
Expansion of oil and gas production into remote and inhospitable areas of the world challenges actuator manufacturers to produce rugged, reliable and often specialized products to meet the pipeline industry’s needs.
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