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April 2, 2025

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Figure 1: Maintaining instrumentation and the systems that support it requires a specialized skill set, and many companies don’t have enough people available in-house to perform these tasks.

Preventive/Predictive Maintenance

Employing predictive maintenance as a service to improve operations

Jennifer Randles

April 1, 2025

Figure 1: A universal signal conditioner like the AutomationDirect ProSense series provides versatile options for designers to convert, transmit, scale and isolate a variety of signal input to control systems.

Process Control & Automation

Frequency signal conditioner applications

March 31, 2025

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Trump tariffs and changes at the FDA with David Lennarz

March 31, 2025

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Maintenance & Safety

Do you believe in electrical ghosts? Understanding electrical noise

March 31, 2025

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Filtration & Separation

Fluid filtration in industrial heat exchangers: Challenges and solutions

Christopher Rau

March 28, 2025

News & Notes

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PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2025: Registration now open

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies

March 31, 2025

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Emerson enhances control system software to increase operational agility

March 25, 2025

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Rotary packing machine

March 24, 2025

Maintenance & Safety

Metal is the most likely contaminant to be introduced during cutting and deboning poultry products due to the prevalence of automation and stainless steel equipment.

Maintenance & Safety

Flex your inspection muscle: Making gains in the high-protein market

March 25, 2025

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Maintenance & Safety

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

March 20, 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

Material Handling (Dry & Wet)

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Pneumatic / Vacuum

Why food processors should consider ingredient transport systems

March 19, 2025

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Filtration & Separation

Efficient separation equipment for effective wine production

Christian Pettit

March 13, 2025

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

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

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

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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

Process Control & Automation

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April 1, 2025

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Process Control & Automation

Operationalizing SPC and SQC analyses

March 26, 2025

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

Pumps, Motors & Drives

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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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

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

Webinars

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Beyond ProcessBook & PI Vision: Exploring Today’s Industrial Analytics Tools

Jan. 29, 2025

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On-demand webinar: Common challenges in bulk material handling

Sept. 17, 2024

eHandbooks & White Papers

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eHandbook: Mixing & Blending

March 24, 2025

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The Beneﬁts of Equipping Chemical Metering Pumps with BLDC Motors

March 11, 2025

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Advanced Chemical Processing: Optimizing Mixing Technologies for Modern Manufacturing

March 11, 2025

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Mitigating Dust Collector Combustible Dust Hazards

March 11, 2025

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Process Control & Automation

Andreas Eschbach talks AI in the pharmaceutical sector

Feb. 20, 2025

The CEO of eschbach, the provider of Shiftconnector software, talks with Daniel Gaddy about how AI and machine learning can identify root causes and provide ongoing resolutions...

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Tanks & Vessels

Industry Brief: Automating Tank Weighing and Filling Systems

May 31, 2024

Learn about Mettler Toledo's latest product offering in this video.

Process Control & Automation

Discussing AI in the process industries with eschbach's founder

April 24, 2024

Andreas Eschbach talks with managing editor Daniel Gaddy about how AI technology, such as the kind used in eschabch's Shiftconnector, can help companies bridge knowledge gaps ...

Maintenance & Safety

Using plant management software to bolster communication in the pharma industry

Jan. 16, 2024

Eschbach founder and CEO Andreas Eschbach speaks with managing editor Daniel Gaddy about how the company’s Shiftconnector offers collaboration dashboards that plug communications...