"According to Solomon Associates, a world-class performer is a company whose maintenance costs are below 1.4 percent plant replacement value, with mechanical availability greater than 96.7 percent." Are your maintenance costs below this 1.4% threshold and 96.7%...
Plant Equipment
Ending Pump and Motor Unplanned Downtime
Emerson's Michael Pearson, a member of the Rosemount measurement business unit, describes how wireless field devices and networks can help end pump and motor downtime in mining applications. Pumps and motors exist in every process environment. Mining is particularly...
Driving Reliability through Asset Management Improvements
If you're planning to attend the 16th Annual ARC World Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida on February 6-9, make sure to see Augie DiGiovanni presentation, Improve Asset Management to Drive Reliability. Augie is the vice president for Emerson's Asset Optimization...
If it Moves—Monitor it!
Emerson's Dan Nower, a member of the machinery health management team, provides his thoughts on the importance of monitoring mechanical assets in mining operations: As pointed out by Emerson's Michael Pearson last week, the supply of copper is expected to be at a...
Pump Reliability and Safety Webinar
I saw an inside-the-firewall blog post from Emerson's Tim Olsen about an upcoming, no charge, HART Energy Webinar. The title of the webinar is Reliability and Safety Improvements with Pump Health Monitoring. It will be held September 28th at 10:00am CDT (13:00 UTC)....
Identifying Pneumatic Energy Savings with the Energy Responsible Tool
If you use any of the social media forms of communications such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, you know that it's possible to get to know someone without actually meeting them face-to-face. You learn about their expertise and interests over time through their...
Guidance for Radar Level Measurement Applications
Recently we've had a few level measurement-related posts--one on a refinery desalter vessel application and another on guided wave radar setup, calibration, and diagnostics. To continue on this theme, I've discovered an article, Determining the level best in radar...
Velocity Collars are Not the Answer to Thermowell Resonance
A few weeks ago, I highlighted the issue of resonance and thermowells in a post, New Thermowell Calculations Help Avoid Damaging Resonance. Thermowells are the circular cylinder installed like a cantilever into process piping. The temperature sensor goes into the...
New Thermowell Calculations Help Avoid Damaging Resonance
Last week, I visited our Emerson division that makes the Rosemount brand family of instrumentation. One of the things I learned coming out of those meetings was a new release of thermowell design standards. For those not already familiar with a thermowell, it's...
Transient Analysis Spots Turbomachinery Issues
The other night I was talking to some engineering students before a college basketball game at one of Austin's famous watering holes. They were complaining about all the mind-bending math they were having to endure. Time domain/frequency domain, Fourier analysis--that...
Rotating Equipment Monitoring and Protection
I discovered a great article, The Signs of Failure, in the fall edition of Resource Engineering & Maintenance magazine. Emerson's Dan Nower, a member of the Machinery Health Management team wrote the article. Dan shares the thought that most rotating machinery...
A View into the Marshalltown Emerson Innovation Center through Social Media
The big news today is the unveiling of the $30 million Emerson Innovation Center to advance Fisher technology in Marshalltown, Iowa. From the release: The world's appetite for energy is driving the development of next-generation nuclear plants, mega-train liquefied...
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