The reliability of your process manufacturing and production operations directly impacts overall safety, availability and profitability. In an earlier post, Integrating Reliability Practices for Top-Quartile Performance, we highlight how reliability translates into...
We all appreciate the diagnostics in our cars that provide early warning to get a problem fixed before a breakdown occurs. We've chronicled how rotating machinery diagnostics, such as PeakVue Analysis diagnostics, can provide early warning to avoid unplanned...
Update: This older post has been updated to reflect the latest API Standard 670, 6th edition, July 7, 2025, release. For those managing the reliability for large complexes such as refineries and petrochemical plants, protecting the rotating machinery that can number...
A human-centered design (HCD) approach means taking a close look at a task or set of tasks and seeing how the design can simplify and streamline it. As this HCD approach continues to unfold through the Emerson Process Management organization, products and technologies...
Across many process manufacturing and producing industries, falling prices are driving the need for increased efficiency and reliability, as well as reduced costs. While optimizing process control can yield gains, so can applying technology to the condition of the...
Last week we highlighted a rotating machinery laser shaft alignment system. Here is Emerson's Robert Skeirik in a series of YouTube videos that shows the components and how it works. The videos are designed for experts to show how to demonstrate the components. Since...
Improving the reliability of your production assets requires a combination of people, processes and tools. For maintenance technician to diagnose issues during rounds portal machinery health analyzers play an important. We've shared how in posts such as Running Bump...
The reliability of your plant assets affects safety, unscheduled downtime, maintenance costs, quality and the overall efficiency of your operations. Solomon Associates in their Reliability and Maintenance Study quantify the significance of top quartile performance...
Last year around this time, the fourth edition of API Standard 682 - Pumps—Shaft Sealing Systems for Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps was released. This standard: …specifies requirements and gives recommendations for sealing systems for centrifugal and rotary pumps used...
A U.S. Department of Energy study on pump life cycle costs notes that maintenance and energy costs make up the vast majority of lifecycle costs. Pumps that are critical to the operation of the process typically are installed with online condition-based monitoring...
The technology advancement of computer virtualization is having a tremendous impact on companies across the globe. And the consolidation of these servers into data centers "in the Cloud" is fundamentally changing how IT, operations and maintenance organizations within...
Yesteryear, energy and water were relatively inexpensive, waste disposal carried little cost, emissions did not incur fines and people willing to work in harsh manufacturing plant and production facility environments were abundant. Today, energy and water costs are...
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