TECHNICAL

Education

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.
#maintenance-repair #basics

Technical

How to Get the Most from Your Control Valves

There’s a lot to know about valves in order to select the right ones and use them effectively.
#basics

Insights

Valve Standards: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Valve standards are both the laws of the land and the roadmaps to be followed on the road to quality, especially for the oil and gas industry.
#standards

Technical

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.
#iiot #maintenance-repair #automation

Technical

Back to Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Torque and Tension

Torque is a force that causes an object to rotate, while tension is a force that causes an object to stretch or elongate.
#basics

Technical

Leak Testing Gas Components and Systems

Leak testing is performed for four basic reasons, says John McLaren, product manager, leak detection at Agilent Technologies, Inc.
#basics #components

MRO

Digging into the Whys of Coating Failures

The most common reason coatings don’t do what they are tasked with doing is surface preparation.
#maintenance-repair

Technical

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.
#maintenance-repair #automation #pressure-relief

Technical

Mistakes and Misconceptions in Valve Leak Testing

From time to time Valvemagazine.com likes to re-publish some of our most popular articles from years past.

Technical

Material Q&A: Elastomer and Plastic Materials

Question: What is the difference between plastic and elastomer?
#materials