How to Engage the Gen Z Workforce
The manufacturing industry has struggled to attract younger workers over the last two decades and now, with nearly 25% of the manufacturing workforce being comprised of baby boomers who are about to retire, the situation is becoming critical.
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Valves in the Construction Industry: 2019 Outlook
Alex Carrick, chief economist at ConstructConnect, shared many valuable insights concerning the construction market during VMA’s 2019 Market Outlook event and during an interview with VALVE Magazine.
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Market Outlook 2019: Cautious Triumph
There are most certainly influences causing concern for some of the presenters at VMA’s 2018 Market Outlook Workshop, but there was also much to celebrate and an optimistic outlook for 2019 and 2020.
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Thermodynamic Processes: Flashing and Cavitation
From time to time, we re-publish well-received or particularly valuable articles that have previously run on VALVEMagazine.com so that those who might have missed them will be able to catch up on the best of the best.
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Augmented Reality: Is the ROI Worth the Effort?
If you could improve safety and efficiency in your plants, lower travel costs and more efficiently train employees with one technology, would you consider adopting it?
#iiot #automation
Using Data to Run our Plants
Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things are allowing increased use of adaptive analytics in running our plants.
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Are Valves from Low-Cost Countries Getting Better?
The last 25 years have seen standards created and implemented to increase the quality and repeatability of valves procured from low-cost manufacturing sources around the world.
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A Pragmatic Approach to Adopting Industry 4.0
In a previous article on VALVE, we queried if results were matching the hype for manufacturers adopting the Industrial Internet of Things—also known as Industry 4.0.
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Key Distribution Trends for 2018
As the new year matures, businesses have their 2018 marketing plans and budgets in place.
AIV, LP Acquires Zenith Supply
AIV, LP, a Houston-based global wholesale distributor of valves and actuators for the oil and gas, power generation, chemical, petrochemical, refining, pulp and paper and water treatment industries, has announced that it has acquired Zenith Supply.
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