Increasingly, the digital transformation of industry means safer, more efficient operation, increased production and improved quality.
November 5, 2019
From time to time VALVEmagazine.com will open up the archives and re-publish some of our most popular articles from years past.
October 18, 2019
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.
October 8, 2019
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.
October 4, 2019
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.
September 25, 2019
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.
September 16, 2019
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.
September 11, 2019
Members attending the VMA Market Outlook Workshop, August 8-9 in San Diego, received good news and bad news about markets important to the valve industry, as well as recent overall economic conditions domestic and worldwide.
August 14, 2019
Most people in industry today recognize that lean manufacturing helps manufacturers and plants improve efficiency by eliminating waste in the production process.
August 13, 2019
Herbert William Heinrich, author of Industrial Accident Prevention, A Scientific Approach, devised a way of understanding the relationship between unsafe acts and workplace injuries.
August 6, 2019
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 that saved him and others from making costly mistakes in the field.
July 24, 2019
The old saying in the valve service industry is “price, quality and delivery—you can pick any two.” That saying is still true 175 years after the first steam valves quit working and needed repair.
July 19, 2019
