#CONTROLS

VMA Welcomes Caltrol Inc.

Caltrol, established in 1934, is an employee-owned company and Emerson Impact Partner.
#automation #VMAnews #controls

Emerson Sells Its Three Millionth Digital Valve Controller

Emerson customers have purchased three million Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controllers over the past three decades.
#maintenance-repair #VMAnews #controls

Insights

Market Outlook Workshop Speakers Offer Insight Into Possible Recession, Ongoing Supply Chain Issues and Political Impacts for 2023

By: Heather Gaynor, Editor, Valve Magazine

From the positive impacts of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to the negative repercussions from the war in Ukraine, external forces continue to shape an uncertain future.
#controls #water-wastewater

Enhanced Software Helps Unlock the Benefits of Control System Virtualization

Control personnel can quickly deploy a virtualized infrastructure that improves performance while also future-proofing their operations.
#VMAnews #controls

Eastern Controls, Inc., Expands its Reach as a SICK, Inc. Authorized Representative

Expansion add more territories in the northeast U.S. coverage.
#automation #actuators #VMAnews

Design

Understanding Torque for Quarter-Turn Valves

Valve manufacturers publish torques for their products so that actuation and mounting hardware can be properly selected.
#actuators #basics #controls

Neles Q-Disc Helps Improve Process Performance in Control Valve Applications

Valmet expands its versatile butterfly valve product range. The Neles Q-Disc joins Valmet’s lineup of the modular Neles Neldisc and the Jamesbury Wafer-Sphere butterfly valve platform.
#actuators #controls #ball-butterfly-plug

Technical

Direct-Sealing Diaphragm Valves Offer Novel Approach

As modern industries such as hydrogen electrolysis and biotech make dramatic technical advances, engineers and researchers must sometimes turn to nontraditional process control systems.
#controls #automation #pressure-relief

Manufacturing

New Technologies Solve Severe Cavitation Problems

An advanced anti-cavitation control valve design enabled by 3D metal printing solved a power plant’s severe cavitation problem and dramatically improved its bottom line.
#controls #materials

Applications

The Diverse Role Valves Play in the Chemical Industry

The chemical industry is extremely diverse with more than 60,000 known products. Like all process industries, the chemical industry needs valves designed for safe, efficient and reliable process operation.
#actuators #controls #gate-globe-check

Technical

Editor's Product Picks

Neles introduces valve-sizing and selection software for all intelligent automated process valves.
#automation #VMAnews #controls

Applications

Emerson’s New Emergency Shutdown Discrete Valve Controller Improves Safety, Uptime in Hazardous Applications

TopWorx DX Partial Stroke Test with HART 7 provides detailed valve assembly data and diagnostics, enabling predictive maintenance and reliable operation.
#VMAnews #controls

Design

Emergency Shutoff Valve Automation with Cowan’s E2H-ESD Actuator

By: Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

“We designed this product around the modular concept to allow the customer to have the flexibility to remove the hydraulics and controls in the field with very minimal work since an important reason for failure of electric and electrohydraulic actuators is vibration in the pipe transferred to the process valve,” says Maria Aguirre, director of Business Development.
#actuators #controls #automation

Design

Flowserve DiamondBack Cavitation Solution Control Valves

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

Flowserve’s new DiamondBack trim offers control valve cavitation elimination with a focus on performance, efficiency and versatility.
#VMAnews #controls

Insights

Great Lakes Process Controls Joins Recent Allied Valve Acquisitions

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The four companies have been merged to form Allied Instrumentation.
#VMAnews #controls

Applications

NECI's NYNE Mechanical Merges with Emerson Final Control

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

NYNE will be leveraging this merger to expand its Bangor, ME operations and integrate the Emerson Auburn, MA, and both the Albany and Rochester, NY shops to serve more clients locally throughout the region. 
#pressure-relief #VMAnews #controls

Design

Control Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards Include Several VMA Members

By: Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

Awards were bestowed to Bray International, Neles, Flowserve, Emerson and Baker Hughes across the magazine’s Final Control Elements category.
#actuators #VMAnews #controls

Applications

Curtiss-Wright releases new motor and actuator with integral controls

Edited by Chris Pasion, Managing Editor, Modern Machine Shop | Production Machining

The SAL080 linear actuator is reportedly capable of continuous force ratings up to 2330 lb-ft (linear) and the SA-R080 is capable of torque up to 24.7 lb-in. (rotary).
#VMAnews #controls

Insights

ValvTechnologies welcomes Quality Controls Inc. as a distributor

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

ValvTechnologies has picked Quality Controls Inc. (QCI) as a new distributor.
#controls #VMAnews

Insights

NECI announces merger with Northeast Controls

New England Controls Inc. and Northeast Controls Inc. announced an agreement to merge their two companies. Both are Emerson Impact Partners serving customers in New England and upstate New York.
#VMAnews #controls