In today competitive landscape, manufacturers are facing lots of pressure to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and keep workers safe. One common solution they rely on, to address these challenges is usually found in Robotics. For example, in the automotive industry...
In the realm of home care medical devices, a remarkable transformation is underway, powered by the seamless synergy of cutting-edge flow-control products and expert engineering provided by valve suppliers.
In a ProFood World article, How to Select the Optimal Valve for Beverage Processing, Emerson’s Amit Patel explains how proper valve selection plays a critical role in effective temperature control.
William Riggieri and Alicia Spaulding discussed fluid control solutions for ultra-low temperature freezers, something critical for the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain.
Valves used in safety applications tend to stay in opened or closed positions for very long, time intervals. As Emerson’s Joe McHugh explained in a Plant Engineering article, Double up on solenoid safety
According to the Solenoid valve page on Wikipedia at the time this post was written, the invention of these devices dates back to 1910 by ASCO, now part of Emerson. Solenoid valves are electromechanical devices: …in which the solenoid uses an electric current to...
Wikipedia defines a solenoid valve as an: …electromechanically operated valve. The valve is controlled by an electric current through a solenoid: in the case of a two-port valve the flow is switched on or off; in the case of a three-port valve, the outflow is switched...
For many applications in the process manufacturing and production industries, solenoid valves are used to "shut off, release, dose, distribute or mix fluids." Wikipedia defines a solenoid valve as: …an electromechanically operated valve. The valve is controlled by an...
A post from a few years ago, Separate Versus Integral Final Element Accessories in Safety Applications, continues to generate some good questions. I thought I'd make these questions and associated answers more visible in today's post. Here's the first question: I...
Final elements such as safety shutdown valves, emergency isolation valves, blowdown valves, etc., in safety instrumented functions (SIFs) are equipped with various accessories such as digital valve controllers, solenoid valves (SOV), and volume boosters, to name a...
Emerson's Tom Holemans shared a recent problem-solving story with me about a pharmaceutical manufacturer's desire to reduce aseptic valve maintenance costs and increase overall availability by switching from a preventive to predictive maintenance approach. As a...
A reader emailed some great questions to an earlier post, Clarifications on the Use of the DVC6000 SIS in Safety Applications. The post, featuring the thoughts of Emerson's Riyaz Ali, addressed misconceptions about the use of digital valve controllers and solenoids in...
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