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Uncover Actionable Insights that Drive Operational Improvement

Global competition requires manufacturers to strive for operational excellence to ensure they are competitive. This requires continuous improvements in terms of reliability, reduced unscheduled downtime, lower maintenance costs, extended equipment life, optimized energy consumption, improved sustainability, and greater throughput.

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Improve Sustainability with IIoT

Reducing your carbon footprint and enhancing sustainability are imperatives in today's world. Emerson's expertise in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and sustainability-enhancing products and software provide the right actionable insights for optimized energy management.

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Ignoring Alerts: Running VFD’s to Failure

Submitted by Kair Turubayev || Valin Corporation

We've been finding more and more circumstances where customers find it beneficial to run their variable frequency drives (VFD) to failure, potentially damaging the VFD beyond repair. This is an interesting concept for people to wrap their mind around at first.

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Hydrogen: A Promising Way to Decarbonize the Chemical Industry

Submitted by WIKA

Worldwide, chemical companies are recognizing the potential of hydrogen as a feedstock and fuel source and the most viable way for the industry to become carbon neutral. Obstacles to realizing this future are gas leakage and storage/transport, two issues that reliable measuring instruments can help overcome.

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CSU Chico Capstone Mobile Robot Topper Project

Valin and Omron sponsored a Senior Capstone project at CSU Chico recently. The project was two terms long.  During the first term, the students worked on understanding the requirements and designing the solution. Check out their final solution in the blog below.

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V-Cone? for LNG: Safety and Quality Benefits in Cryogenic Processes

The V-Cone is often implemented in upstream, midstream, and even downstream oil and gas processes to measure a variety of flow media in various states and temperatures. The V-Cone's options for customization are among the many factors that prompt customers to choose this meter for such diverse and varied applications.

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Steam & Water Flow Measurement: Going with the Flow

Given the need for accuracy, consistency, and repeatability, brewers should always choose the highest quality meter they can afford. Flow metering is all about optimizing production to give the brewer consistent and reliable results by understanding the precise temperatures, pressures, and flow being used.

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V-Cone Differential-Pressure Meters: Accuracy To Go With The Flow

When space is tight and straight-run piping is at a premium, V-Cone? differential pressure meters are an excellent choice - especially where the potential for turbulence raises metering accuracy issues. This article describes how to satisfy some challenging water infrastructure applications with the V-Cone meter.

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3 Ways to Use Flow Data for Corporate Water Savings

Countless companies have published initiatives on water conservation and efficiency, often for compliance, financial benefits, and social responsibility. According to the EPA, water-related uses account for 19% of California's electricity, 30% of its natural gas and 88 billion gallons of diesel fuel every year.

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Three Hidden Traps of Low Flow Cutoff

Failure to capture meter readings at the low end of the production scale is a missed opportunity for steam system operators. Here's why that is happening and what you can do to attack the problem.

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Actuator Options: More Than Meets the Eye

Submitted by Corey Foster || Valin Corporation

For both process and discrete motion control applications of actuators, many of the terminologies uttered and the base technologies utilized are similar. The difference comes with the application and evolution of these base technologies.

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Circulation Heaters: What You Need to Know

Submitted by Ryan Kraus || Valin Corporation

We're always seeing questions about circulation heaters. Specifically, given the abundance of different models and types, customers want to know which works best for their application.

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Wafer Yield in the Semiconductor Industry

Submitted by Sri Gavini || Valin Corporation

In a time where the cost of everything is on the rise, operators, and decision-makers are more focused than ever on getting the most out of their particular process. This is particularly true for the semiconductor industry.

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Mitsubishi Electric Mobile Showroom Tour

Valin and Mitsubishi Electric are joining forces to bring the latest automation solutions to our customers in Arizona.? On board the mobile showroom you will see the latest technology in PLCs, drives, CNCs, motion control, HMIs, energy monitoring and management, industrial robots, and connectivity for MES and ERP applications.

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SIL 3 Rated Products for the Semiconductor Industry

Precisions Sensors (a division of United Electric Controls) now offers pressure, flow, level, and temperature products with a SIL 3 rating. The SIL-3 capability will improve your company's ability to achieve product certification resulting in improved time-to-market.

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