Tying our World Together with Digital Threads
The words, “maintenance” and “repair” are so common in everyone’s vocabulary that we use them almost daily, and sometimes we’re not exactly happy about it.
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Caution: Horizontal Stem Installation Ahead
When it comes to linear valve installations, gravity is our friend.
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Give Your Flow Meter a Happy Home
Increased emphasis on the need to improve process performance and reduce variability mean many control loops today are optimized.
Fugitive Emissions—Issues and Opportunities
Fugitive emissions, ppm, consent decrees and low-E packings: These are the words that make up a lexicon unknown in the valve repair world 25 years ago.
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The Limits of Standard Manual Globe Valves for Throttling
A common practice in process services is to use manual globe valves with hand wheels for regulating flow.
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Improving Control Valve Maintenance with the Industrial Internet of Things
By connecting previously stranded data from smart sensors, equipment, and other industrial assets with advanced applications and predictive analytics in the cloud, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is becoming a strategic enabler to improve manufacturing performance.
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For Want of a Nail: Engineering Process Safety
“For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost,” is the final line of an old proverb that reminds us that seemingly unimportant acts or omissions can have grave consequences.
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Highlights from API’s Tanks, Valves and Piping Conference 2015
At this year’s API Tanks, Valves and Piping Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, Oct. 14-15, more than a dozen presenters shared their expertise in the installation, repair and maintenance of valves, pipes and tanks.
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New, Surplus, Repaired or Rebuilt?
If you’ve been around valves for a while, you’ve likely heard the term “new surplus,” plus a few other saltier descriptions for valves that are offered for sale.
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Turning Back the Tides of a Truly Super Storm
Superstorm Sandy made landfall Oct. 29, 2012 on the eastern seaboard of the United States, resulting in unprecedented flooding in the New York City metropolitan area.
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