Innovation: Helping Customers Cope with Today’s Challenges
One of the most acute challenges in the business of water/wastewater today is the failure of systems and piping, which are aging faster than many municipalities and water authorities can react.
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Virtual Valve Forum and Basics Event Draws Attendees from Across the Industry
More than 200 people from across the valve industry participated virtually in the VMA Valve Forum and Valve Basics event, which included 4 days of presentations on technical, manufacturing, management and marketing, valves 101, and valve repair.
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Using the Internet of Things for Supply Chain Visibility
One factor I noticed was that every article on the subject of the Internet of Things (IoT) was about applications inside the factory and not within the supply chain. For example, there were articles on machine monitoring, equipment monitoring, preventive maintenance, and smaller topics.
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Analyzing PTFE Valve Packing for Control Valve Performance
During a power plant operating cycle, valve maintenance and reliability are key focus areas, often taking up the largest portion of an outage budget.
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Beauty or a Beast? Using NDE on Valve Components
When it comes to valves, “beauty is only skin-deep” is often a true statement. Since Superman and his X-ray eyes don’t really exist, there is no way to verify the quality of a valve or valve component just by looking at it.
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Stress Wave Monitoring
Surfaces in relative motion or in contact with each other — such as bearing or gear components — produce a frequency response when they interact.
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Maintaining Hygienic Diaphragm Valves
The biopharmaceutical industry relies on hygienic diaphragm valves for its demanding process applications because of the unique needs for cleaning and draining, and for pressure and temperature capabilities.
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The Ultimate Question for Control Valve Maintenance: Repair Or Replace?
The impact of a facility’s decision to repair control valves, versus replacing them, in the coming months could result in more effort, time and money than expected.
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Water Infrastructure: Getting Some Long Overdue Attention
The situation presents enormous challenges to local water utilities struggling with aging, and insufficient piping and valves, while trying to deal with limited budgets.
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The Evolution of OEM Support Services
The last several decades have seen a change in the U.S. valve industry landscape from the mainland of “do-it-all-ourselves” companies to independent islands of commerce focusing just on what they do best—design and manufacture.
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Valve Performance Management
Comprehensive valve performance management provides monitoring and service for valves throughout a process or facility.
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Equipment as a Service: Extending the Subscription Model to Industrial Equipment
Equipment as a Service (EaaS) is a relatively new concept similar to the widely used Software as a Service (Saas). SaaS allows customers to use cloud-based software on a subscription basis.
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Using Immersive Technologies for Troubleshooting, Training and Maintenance
As immersive reality technologies continue to grow in scope and scale, more industrial applications are being developed to solve longstanding issues.
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Enhancing Maintenance with the IIoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) includes, among other capabilities, monitoring equipment and process parameters using sensors connected to networks.
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Annual Meeting: Sandler Celebrated, New VMA Leaders Announced
Bill Sandler spent much of the 81st VMA/VRC annual meeting being surprised and honored for his 42 years of service to the association and the valve industry.
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The Future of After-sales Service
After-sales service has many definitions starting with the broad view that it’s all the help and information a company provides to its customers after they have bought a product.
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Digging into the Whys of Coating Failures
The most common reason coatings don’t do what they are tasked with doing is surface preparation.
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Control Valve Selection for Severe Service
A control valve can be used to control pressure, pressure drop, flow and temperature in any system where there is a fluid flowing through a pipe that needs to be controlled.
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The Economics of Valve Repair
The old saying in the valve service industry is “price, quality and delivery—you can pick any two.” That saying is still true 175 years after the first steam valves quit working and needed repair.
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Highlights from the 2019 Valve World Americas Expo & Conference
Speakers from end-user companies, consultants and repair/maintenance companies, as well as valve manufacturers and their suppliers, presented at the Valve World Americas conference.
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