The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has greatly increased public attention to U.S. energy supplies (as well as severely tarnishing the image of BP and, by extension, the entire oil industry). At the same time there has been great movement in the natural gas arena, with promises that gas, widely perceived as more environmentally friendly than oil, may account for a greatly increased share of U.S. energy.
July 23, 2010
Q: Should I be concerned whether my valve is cast or forged?
July 15, 2010
Today’s ships are much more than floating tanks.
July 15, 2010
One of the presentations at the Aramco Services Company Technical Exchange Meeting in Houston in early May was entitled “Improving the Value Chain for Valves through Standardization of Metadata.” In it the presenters—Sharon Bickford, project manager at FIATECH; Ken Hamilton, project manager at PIP; Rick Hoenerhoff, associate director at PIP; and John Fish, who works in the area of customer relationships & quality assurance for Ford, Bacon, and Davis, LLC —pointed out that the process for managing valves on a project has not changed in 40 years.
June 23, 2010
I wrote an article that appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Valve Magazine entitled Suspicious and Counterfeit Valves: An Avoidable Danger.
June 14, 2010
Is Lean the answer for manufacturing?
April 30, 2010
Specification sheets for selecting automated valves list requirements for the valve and actuator but often lump all other devices together as related instrumentation or accessories.
April 21, 2010
Q: In the last Materials Q&A column, you discussed using forged bar to make hubbed-flange components such as bonnets.
April 21, 2010
As exploration for new oil and gas sources goes deeper into the ocean and further from shore, valves in service to that industry will have new pressure, temperature and durability requirements.
April 21, 2010
Although the situation might change eventually, it’s a reality that most people working in the valve repair industry today are men.
April 21, 2010
Automation Technology has hired two key executives to support growing customer demand.
March 23, 2010
Shortly after 9/11 there was considerable worry about attacks on U.S. chemical plants.
March 22, 2010
