Isolate the Problem to Solve the Problem When Troubleshooting Pumps & Valves

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Isolate the Problem to Solve the Problem When Troubleshooting Pumps & Valves

Solving problems for his customers is what sets Jody Millsap apart from the pack. “I love to investigate a problem and find a solution,” the 50-year-old president and owner of Water Solutions Engineering said. “This is what I really enjoy. This is one reason why I like to do consulting in addition to our regular work. The customer I started consulting with in 2012 had a 15-year-old problem. It was water related and we were able to solve it. This is what I really love to do—go in and help a customer solve an issue—to show what the problem was and show how we solved it. The gratification of doing that means the world to me.”

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Energy Efficient Engineering and Lubrication Best Practices

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Energy Efficient Engineering and Lubrication Best Practices

When it comes to working with customers to solve lubrication and engineering problems, Adam McMurtrey relies on a lifetime of experience that goes all the way back to his childhood. For ExxonMobil’s Mobil Serv program, he works closely with industries ranging from lead mines to chicken rendering plants—always with energy efficient lubrication best practices at the forefront of every solution.

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Innovation, IIoT & Industry 4.0 Build the Factory of the Future

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Innovation, IIoT & Industry 4.0 Build the Factory of the Future

Using 3D laser scanning and rapid prototyping, Festo created its Scharnhausen Technology Plant with Industry 4.0 and complete communication at its core, showing how innovation, the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT), and sophisticated factory automation and facility design can help build the factory of the future.

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The Future of IIoT - How Innovation Drives Industry 4.0

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The Future of IIoT - How Innovation Drives Industry 4.0

It’s exciting when valves and other equipment communicate with people—sending complex data through the air to predict maintenance, prevent failure through predictive analytics, and enhance performance. But the future of the IIoT involves an even more sophisticated evolution where devices communicate with each other to solve problems and even make decisions. The 4th industrial revolution will make history with the emergence of so-called “cyber-physical systems,” which enable the evolution of artificial intelligence.

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Hydraulic Transient Simulation Analysis Predicts and Solves Problems

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Hydraulic Transient Simulation Analysis Predicts and Solves Problems

As a Senior Hydraulics Engineer for Freese and Nichols, Inc., Tom Hill solves problems for his clients by building hydraulic transient simulation models of pump stations and pipelines to analyze, predict, and solve critical issues.

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How to Properly Maintain Brewery Equipment

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How to Properly Maintain Brewery Equipment

Preventive maintenance has become the name of the game when maintaining the many valves, pumps, and other brewery equipment at Rhinegeist Brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio, especially with harsh regulations in food and beverage industry.

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What are Cv Values and How Can They Be Used?

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What are Cv Values and How Can They Be Used?

Ed H. Edwards specializes in materials of construction for corrosion and erosion resistance and the proper sizing, selection, and installation of equipment, and he also works closely with end users trouble shooting and maintaining equipment. He is the Vice President of HBE Engineering of Three Rivers, Michigan, a supplier of centrifugal pump minimum flow valves and orifices. He has worked in the pump and related equipment field since 1972 and holds a BS from Western Michigan University.

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Seaworthy Engineering Aboard an Aircraft Carrier

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Seaworthy Engineering Aboard an Aircraft Carrier

Running the engineering department on an aircraft carrier during the first Gulf War prepared Bruce Ames for a lifelong career that kept him busy in all types of industries—paper, power, trucking, and more. Now, a lubrication engineer with ExxonMobil, he uses his diverse skills to develop programs to help his customers save money, energy, and time.

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Know Your Engineering Equipment in Mining Applications

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Know Your Engineering Equipment in Mining Applications

George Corfield is a professional maintenance and operations manager and mining engineer, with more than 20 years of experience in operations, equipment repair and overhaul, maintenance, and engineering functions for diversified industrial and mining organizations.

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Identifying and Solving Technical Issues During Commissioning

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Identifying and Solving Technical Issues During Commissioning

As a senior inside sales engineer, Kirill Zimin is in charge of sizing pumps and selecting and acquiring quotes of its accessories. This requires meeting with customers as a technical expert. Working closely with the sales force at Ruhrpumpen Global, his team must accurately transfer orders to the manufacturing business unit in the oil and gas, power, chemical, metallurgy, and water industries.

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