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Top 10 Low Hanging Fruits for Process Improvement Before or After a Lean Audit

Top 10 Low Hanging Fruits to Pick for Process Improvement Before or After a Lean Audit This article was featured in Valve World Americas and was written to help any plant manager, maintenance supervisor, process engineer, or mechanical team shine. These may not be everyday ideas for you, but they are simple and absolutely impact …

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Commissioning For Process Controls: The Pursuit of Excellence

Commissioning For Process Controls: The Pursuit of Excellence Commissioning is a team effort to document the continuity of a project as it moves from one project phase to the next. To achieve commissioning excellence requires that the testing documents be accurate and written in an orderly fashion. The Documentation Gatekeeper, or the Commission Lead, is …

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The Preventative Maintenance Mindset: How to quantify the True Cost of Inaction

The Preventative Maintenance Mindset: How to quantify the True Cost of Inaction Many of us have heard of lean initiatives such as predictive maintenance. Possibly in the past, you focused upon preventative maintenance, or even use to failure. Each of these have their good points and bad points. Today we’re going to discuss the value …

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Improve Efficiency and Reduce Risk in Data Centers

Improve Efficiency and Reduce Risk in Data Centers with Cross Process Solutions Group Much of the world that we take for granted today is reliant on the continual performance of data centers located all over the country. Everything from financial institutions to telecommunication companies to social media platforms require reliable data centers to manage day …

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Why migrate your process to a new control system?

Why migrate your process to a new control system? You have probably heard the old adage “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” While there are some great arguments for leaving well enough alone, it isn’t true for your control system. There can be serious advantages to moving your outdated system to a newer platform …

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Understanding How Ultrasonic Flow Meters Work

Understanding How Ultrasonic Flow Meters Work Ultrasonic Flow Meters are a non-invasive flow technology that uses sensors/transducers to generate ultrasonic sound waves that are directed into the flow and used to determine flow velocities. On-board flow computers use the given velocity and the current flow profile of the pipe to determine an instantaneous rate of …

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Why Rupture Disc Replacement Isn’t Always Straightforward

Why Rupture Disc Replacement Isn’t Always Straightforward So, you need to order a new rupture disc? As long as you tell the sales rep what pressure the tag states, the disc size, and the materials of construction, you’ll get an identical disc…right? Unfortunately, it is not quite that easy. Disc manufacturers do a few calculations …

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What to look for in a fever screening system

What to look for in a fever screening system As we all get back to the “new normal” many are faced with the dilemma of how to ensure the safety of their employees and patrons. Whether you operate a large manufacturing facility, a hospital, a municipal building, an airport, or even a shopping center, you …

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Understanding How Thermal Mass Flow Meters Work

Understanding How Thermal Mass Flow Meters Work A thermal mass flow meter is a precision instrument that measures gas flow entirely differently, eliminating the need for pressure and temperature correction. Thermal mass flow meters measure the heat transfer as the gas flows past a heated surface. The gas molecules create the heat transfer, so the …

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Benefits of Rupture Disc Standardization

Benefits of Rupture Disc Standardization Standardization can provide benefits throughout your operation from the design engineers who create the rupture discs’ data sheets to the inventory managers who have to maintain obsolete inventory and hundreds of duplications in the warehouse. As a buyer of safety relief devices, have you ever thought that this procedure seems …

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Preventing Incidents When Filling and Emptying Tanks

Preventing Incidents When Filling and Emptying Tanks Most of the incidents that occur with atmospheric storage tanks occur during filling and emptying. When people think of tank incidents they generally think of implosion or explosion due to corrosion or erosion. That is not the case most of the time. There are a number of other …

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Capacitance Manometers for Use in Lyophilization (Freeze-drying) Processes

Capacitance Manometers for Use in Lyophilization Processes Lyophilization, also known as cryodesiccation, or more commonly “freeze-drying” is a dehydration process typically used to preserve a perishable material or make the material more convenient for transport. The freeze-drying process works by exposing a material that has been frozen to a vacuum environment. This lowers the vapor …

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