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

    Remote machine health monitoring improves operations and increases profitability

    Akshat Sharma
    Feb. 24, 2025
    This article explores the importance of remote machine health monitoring, its integration into reliability programs, and the transformative benefits it can provide to industrial...
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    NFPA 660 is now the only combustible dust NFPA standard
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    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.
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    Acoustic imaging offers many benefits over traditional inspection methods, including ease of use, scalability and safety for employees during inspections
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    Maintenance & Safety

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    Technicians must use a gap inspection tool after initial fitting installation to ensure the fitting has been tightened sufficiently to prevent leaks.
    Courtesy of Casella
    Personal sampling pumps are the best way to accurately gauge the level of exposure to individual workers and comply with regulations. Attached to the wearer, these pumps draw the air in the wearer’s immediate breathing zone through a sampling media such as a sorbent tube at a controlled flow rate.
    Courtesy of Valmet
    Plant executives, operations, and maintenance managers are increasingly seeking help to maximize the availability of production equipment and maintenance efficiency while still meeting stringent quality requirements.
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    Even within the dustiest food processing environments, advanced detection systems like Honeywell’s VESDA-VEU can accurately distinguish dust from smoke inside a dust collection system.
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    Oil and gas companies that flare excess gasses must visually monitor and manage the frequency and length of time at which flares occur.
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    Acoustic imagers work by using an array of microphones to translate sounds into images to detect and visualize air leaks.
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    Maintenance & Safety

    Five signs of communication failure — and how manufacturers can take control

    Andreas Eschbach
    July 16, 2024
    Digitizing, standardizing and centralizing communication for shift handover, equipment inspection rounds and other key processes can go a long way toward addressing communication...
    Maintenance & Safety

    Empowering the human workforce with an AI assist

    Andreas Eschbach
    July 9, 2024
    A centralized knowledge management platform acts as a historical archive, collecting both formal data and tacit knowledge that is often hiding in shift logs or maintenance notes...
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    Maintenance & Safety

    Charting a green future with hydrogen

    Paul Kondratyev
    July 7, 2024
    Solutions that reliably, safely and efficiently control hydrogen are critical for the success of hydrogen hubs — and the adoption of hydrogen itself.
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    Maintenance & Safety

    How the latest X-ray technology is hitting the sweet spot for dessert manufacturers

    Richard Parmee
    June 27, 2024
    The use of low-energy X-ray imaging to detect foreign objects in food products is an established technique on the production line.
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    Maintenance & Safety

    Dairy inspection sensitivity gets smarter 

    Eric Garr
    May 24, 2024
    Digital technologies and machine learning are pushing the innovation boundaries and streamlining inspection processes.