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Networking Considerations for Electric Actuation

Networking Considerations for Electric Actuation

When considering the electric actuation industry, several topics are subject to conversation and analysis, including non-intrusive electric actuators and their overall capabilities and construction.

Actuators General

January 20, 2011

Preventive Maintenance and Repair for Sleeved Plug Valves

Preventive Maintenance and Repair for Sleeved Plug Valves

Preventive maintenance and repair for valves is an important part of keeping operations running smoothly and efficiently.

MRO Thought Leadership Valves

January 18, 2011

HIC Testing

HIC Testing

Q: I’m working on an order in which the customer’s material specification imposes HIC testing.

General Thought Leadership

January 18, 2011

Food & Beverage Industry

Food & Beverage Industry

The industry looks bright.

General Thought Leadership

January 18, 2011

Cyber War: Are Your Defenses Sufficient?

Cyber War: Are Your Defenses Sufficient?

The precipitating event in the 1986 Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising is a massive fire in a Soviet petroleum installation caused by an infiltrator in the control room.

Thought Leadership

January 11, 2011

What Goes into the SIP Process

What Goes into the SIP Process

Clean steam sterilization is the heart of the sanitization routine for most biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes, as well as most pharmaceutical processes that produce parenteral medications (those not administered through the digestive tract such as injections and others) or diagnostic agents.

General

November 19, 2010

Emerson Event Reflects Company’s Optimistic Outlook

Emerson Event Reflects Company’s Optimistic Outlook

Things are looking up for Emerson Process Management—and for industry in general—if you judge by attendance at this year’s Emerson Global Users Exchange, held Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in San Antonio: Nearly 2,300 people attended, up from last year’s 1,800.

Thought Leadership

October 31, 2010

Cobalt-base Alloy 6

Cobalt-base Alloy 6

Q: Is there a problem using cobalt-base Alloy 6 material in amine applications in refineries and gas treatment plants?

General Thought Leadership

October 14, 2010

Valve Repair Companies

Valve Repair Companies

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

MRO Thought Leadership

October 14, 2010

Mining Faces Many Political Risks

Mining Faces Many Political Risks

Before the economic crash, the mining industry was seeing new investors – companies such as steel manufacturers that were not miners by trade were getting into the business, said Steve Ralbovsky, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

General

October 13, 2010

The International Market: Trade and Its Effects on U.S. Recovery

The International Market: Trade and Its Effects on U.S. Recovery

Although the nation began pulling out of the recession in about the middle of 2009, by the time of VMA’s Market Outlook Workshop in mid-August, the growth that started in 2009 had slowed down, a development that was more noticeable here in the U.S. than overseas, according to Gary Schlossberg (pictured), senior economist for Wells Capital Management.

General Sustainability

October 1, 2010

CAPLUGS: Introduces OE Series of Pipe End Protectors

CAPLUGS: Introduces OE Series of Pipe End Protectors

Caplugs introduces the OE Series, a new line of tear-tab pipe end protectors.

General

September 21, 2010

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