Many floating production vessels now operating off Africa and elsewhere were converted or built decades ago and are approaching or exceeding their original design lives. The monitoring equipment installed during that era is equally dated, leaving integrity teams dependent on manual ultrasonic inspections, retrievable corrosion coupons, and intrusive probes.
In Life Sciences manufacturing, flow measurement is never just about measurement. It’s about protecting product quality, maintaining validation, and ensuring every batch meets exacting regulatory expectations without slowing down operations. That’s exactly why we...
Life sciences may be the ideal industry for the implementation of AI technologies. After all, bringing a treatment all the way through the drug development process is an extremely complicated undertaking, with tremendous amounts of data and a wide array of...
The challenge for many refiners is whether the installation risk, outage dependency, and ongoing maintenance burden can be justified. When those barriers remain in place, uncertainty forces conservative decisions. Non-intrusive measurement directly targets those constraints by allowing new measurement points to be added without cutting into piping, breaking containment, or waiting for outages.
In base oil production, quality and reliability is non‑negotiable. When you’re operating in high‑capacity refineries and producing Group I and Group II base oils for global markets, even small measurement inaccuracies can have a cascading impact on product quality,...
Across industries—from chemical and energy to life sciences—operators are being asked to do more with less. Processes must run reliably, systems must integrate smoothly, and regulatory expectations continue to rise. At the same time, traditional approaches to flow...
4 reasons why radar level sensors are superior to ultrasonic level technology: Radar and ultrasonic level measurements are both widely used in industrial and environmental applications for measuring the level of liquids and solids in lift stations, tanks, and open...
AI is changing drug discovery faster than most people expected. Commercial manufacturing is next. The organizations best positioned for that shift are the ones preparing now, not because they’re behind, but because the window to prepare thoughtfully is exactly when...
In dairy processing, even small measurement inaccuracies can quickly turn into product giveaway, quality risk, or compliance exposure. That’s why I’m always interested in seeing how customers apply the right instrumentation—not just to measure flow, but to improve...
The shift toward renewable fuels has introduced new operational realities for refiners. While biofuels offer clear sustainability benefits, their chemical composition and processing paths create corrosion mechanisms that differ in both severity and location from those seen in traditional petroleum refining.
Most major refinery incidents do not start with dramatic failures. They start with small, unremarkable changes that go unnoticed until it is too late.
New pressure relief valve (PRV) designs that protect LNG storage tanks, while providing cost savings through reduced fugitive emissions and increased capacity.
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