Maintaining valves throughout a plant’s lifetime helps to preserve optimal performance, minimize supply disruptions and ...

Ball valves are integral components in many industries, including oil and gas, chemical processing, agriculture, food and beverage equipment, mechanical engineering and automotive manufacturing. These ...

Nearly every combined-cycle operator recognizes that cycling reduces the life expectancy of hot-gas-path components in combustion turbines. Often overlooked, however, is that the same phenomenon ...

Refrigeration control valves for industrial refrigeration systems have been an important system component since the 1920s. When a control valve fails, the result can be as significant as a more costly ...

Tens of thousands of valves are required to manage the myriad of fluid and gasses in a power generation facility. Whether the valve is for isolation, flow reversal protection or something completely ...

A process-specific preventative maintenance program improves productivity and reliability. The biopharmaceutical industry relies on hygienic diaphragm valves for its demanding process applications due ...

At DuPont’s Fayetteville Works Tedlar plants in Fayetteville, NC, the company produces a polymer used in the manufacturing of solar panels. With just 35 employees operating the two plants at this site ...

In the previous two installments of "Competitive Maintenance Strategies," we examined several best practices that should be part of the workday routine for high-performing plants. In Part I, we ...