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Enhancing Maintenance with the IIoT

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.

Automation General Manufacturing MRO

October 28, 2019

Managing Valves in EPCM Projects Part II: More Challenges

Managing Valves in EPCM Projects Part II: More Challenges

VALVE Magazine’s Fall edition ran part I of this article, which addressed the valve challenges faced during the processes involved in engineering, procurement, construction and management (EPCM) projects.

General Leadership

October 23, 2019

Triple Offset Butterfly Valves

Triple Offset Butterfly Valves

From time to time VALVEmagazine.com will open up the archives and re-publish some of our most popular articles from years past.

Thought Leadership Valve Basics Valves

October 18, 2019

The Future of After-sales Service

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.

MRO Thought Leadership

October 8, 2019

Pinch Valves: An Uncomplicated Valve with an Important Purpose

Pinch Valves: An Uncomplicated Valve with an Important Purpose

Pinch valves are a simple valve design that uses an elastomeric tube forced together or pinched to stop the flow of media.

General Valve Basics

October 8, 2019

Online Marketplaces Moving into B2B

Online Marketplaces Moving into B2B

In business-to-business (B2B) sales and distribution, as in many parts of the economy, new technologies and new business models are shaking things up.

Thought Leadership

October 4, 2019

Ten Years and Counting: VMA’s Valve Basics Celebrates the Power of Change

Ten Years and Counting: VMA’s Valve Basics Celebrates the Power of Change

One of the founding members of VMA’s Education & Training (E&T) Committee, Ed Holtgraver (QTRCO), remembers the excitement created by the first Valve Basics Seminar held in Houston a decade ago.

General Thought Leadership Valve Basics

September 25, 2019

The Adventures of Duke Waters: Chapter 5

The Adventures of Duke Waters: Chapter 5

Editor’s Note: We continue the series written by John Ballun, President and CEO of Val-Matic Valve and Manufacturing Corp. and released in 2016 as a book dedicated to the mentors who saved him and others from making costly mistakes in the field.

Thought Leadership

September 16, 2019

The Basics of Eccentric Plug Valves

The Basics of Eccentric Plug Valves

Wastewater systems present many challenges to pumps and valves because the flow can contain grit, solids and debris, depending where in the process the equipment is located.

General Thought Leadership Valve Basics Valves Water/wastewater

September 11, 2019

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

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.

General Valve Basics

September 5, 2019

Leak Testing Gas Components and Systems

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.

General Valve Basics

August 28, 2019

Digging into the Whys of Coating Failures

Digging into the Whys of Coating Failures

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

General MRO

August 27, 2019

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