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Maintenance & Safety

Food-grade lubricants play critical role in food and beverage manufacturing

March 20, 2025

By understanding their importance and choosing the right products, manufacturers can protect their operations, comply with regulations and maintain the integrity of their products...

Figure 1. Flow diagram of an Ingredient Transport System.

Pneumatic / Vacuum

Why food processors should consider ingredient transport systems

March 19, 2025

The challenge is to quickly and accurately distinguish between smoke from an actual fire and the typical background airborne particulates during meat processing.

Maintenance & Safety

Advanced fire detection system fine tunes sensitivity in meat processing facilities

March 18, 2025

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Using electromagnetic flowmeters for better management of produced water, with KROHNE

March 17, 2025

Seal-less eccentric disc pump models feature no mechanical seals, packing, couplings — or even magnets, with the shaft sealed instead by a unique double stainless-steel bellows.

Pumps, Motors & Drives

Why seal-less pumps can provide benefits over sealed pumps

March 14, 2025

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Filtration & Separation

Efficient separation equipment for effective wine production

Christian Pettit

March 13, 2025

News & Notes

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EASA announces program for 2025 Convention & Solutions Expo

Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA)

March 20, 2025

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Portable mixers

March 19, 2025

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Hybrid specialty conveyor system

Dynamic Conveyor Corporation

March 17, 2025

Maintenance & Safety

Effective remote monitoring requires close collaboration between reliability engineers, maintenance teams and operators.

Condition Monitoring

Remote machine health monitoring improves operations and increases profitability

Feb. 24, 2025

NFPA 660 is now the only combustible dust NFPA standard

Standards & Regulations

What is NFPA 660 Standard for Combustible Dusts and Particulate Solids?

Jan. 30, 2025

Powdered material and dusts are sent to specialized labs that can administer various tests to glean valuable and actionable data for your facility's hazard identification process.

Standards & Regulations

Combustible dust hazard identification and dust testing under NFPA 660

Jan. 29, 2025

Material Handling (Dry & Wet)

Scale feeding systems are designed to ensure a controlled and dependable on-demand supply of bulk material to the scale.

Weighers & Feeders

Advantages of electromagnetic feeders for scale infeed applications

March 4, 2025

While gravity flow directly from a conical hopper outlet may be adequate for discharge in many applications, an elongated hopper and integral plane-flow feeder offers many advantages that can outweigh the difference in initial equipment costs.

Weighers & Feeders

Bulk solids feeders: The importance of flow pattern

Feb. 21, 2025

Figure 1. If a dust explosion occurs in the head of this bucket elevator, the IPD system from BS&B (left) suppresses it in a fraction of a second with a chemical extinguishing agent.

Protecting food manufacturing processes from dust explosions

Feb. 17, 2025

Mennel Milling is continually striving to improve operations.

Powder & Bulk Processing

Customized inspection equipment, data collection software foster continuous improvement at family milling firm

Fortress Technology

Feb. 6, 2025

Mixing, Blending & Size Reduction

Internal mixing flights impart a tumble-turn-cut-fold action that produces a homogeneous blend with no heat, shear or stratification. The gentle four-way mixing action leaves almost no residue, simplifying cleaning between batches.

Powder & Bulk Processing

Rotary batch mixer slashes cycle times and overages at contract manufacturer

Munson Machinery

Jan. 24, 2025

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Powder & Bulk Processing

Basics of industrial tumble blenders for powders and bulk solids

Casey Bickhardt

Jan. 22, 2025

Dispersion is a type of high shear mixing for ingredients having different viscosities, densities, or particle sizes. It utilizes flat, sawtooth style blades turning at high speed with high torque.

Mixing, Blending & Size Reduction

Understanding the difference between high shear and low shear in industrial mixing applications

Nov. 22, 2024

Powder & Bulk Processing

VAC-U-MAX, GEMCO, and VORTI-SIV collaborate on metal powder recovery and reconditioning system for additive manufacturing

George Paffendorf

June 7, 2024

Powder & Bulk Processing

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Powder & Bulk Processing

Rotary drum maintenance: Training makes all the difference

Jan. 2, 2025

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Powder & Bulk Processing

Transfer chute fundamentals and snowboarding

Dec. 18, 2024

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Powder & Bulk Processing

Improving manufacturing flexibility with IBCs and parallel processing

Dec. 5, 2024

Cloud-based bulk inventory management software pairs with sensors to track liquid or solid levels inside storage vessels and is accessible via PC or mobile app.

Powder & Bulk Processing

How IoT is transforming bulk solids inventory management

Jenny Christensen

Dec. 3, 2024

Process Control & Automation

La Huerta's VERYX optical sorter for IQF vegetables.

Process Control & Automation

Case study: La Huerta automates inspection with optical sorter

March 12, 2025

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Process Control & Automation

Enhance process monitoring using advanced analytics

Feb. 26, 2025

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Process Control & Automation

Optimizing automation: Top conveyor tech tips for integrators in distribution and processing

Feb. 11, 2025

A Mettler-Toledo X37 x-ray system inspecting canned products at Keystone Meats.

Process Control & Automation

Case study: Keystone Meats enhances product quality with X-ray inspection system

Jan. 24, 2025

Pumps, Motors & Drives

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Pumps, Motors & Drives

The process of selecting the right pump for every application

March 11, 2025

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Pumps, Motors & Drives

In the thick of it: Pumping high-viscosity liquids with an AODD pump

Feb. 13, 2025

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Pumps, Motors & Drives

Repair or replace? Key insights to help you choose the right pump solution

Nov. 14, 2024

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Pumps, Motors & Drives

How pump technology is addressing the worker shortage in food processing

Sept. 11, 2024

Valves & Actuators

Figure 5: For slurries, a Fisher V500 Eccentric Plug Valve with high hardness trim can be a good choice (left). Corrosive liquid flow can be tightly controlled using rising stem valves, like the Fisher GX (middle) or E-Series (right), each with carefully chosen materials of construction.

Valves & Actuators

Control valve selection for the lithium battery value chain

Nov. 12, 2024

This diagram shows the common functional failure points of a control valve. The basic diagnostics available in nearly all Fisher digital valve controllers can detect and alert most of these failures — but only if they are enabled, configured and monitored.

Valves & Actuators

Activate diagnostic alerts to leverage digital valve controller capabilities

Aug. 28, 2024

Valves & Actuators

Evaluating digital valve controller options

Feb. 28, 2024

Valves & Actuators

Position transmitters improve critical isolation valve reliability

Jan. 5, 2024

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