In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, our editors share their insights on the events, technologies, and trends that shaped the industry in 2024. 2024 has been a year of ...

Deciding how to meet your business's compressed air needs? You can either buy a compressor system or outsource the service for flexibility, cost efficiency, and less management responsibilities. Each ...

Is excess capacity dragging down the performance of your compressed air system? Here’s how to right-size your system and start achieving real cost savings. Don’t be yet another statistic with an ...

Surprising as it may sound, piping material has significant impact on air quality, pressure, and leak load. Whether installing a new system or considering upgrades to an existing one, this guide ...

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates air compressors consume 10% of all electricity in the U.S., with 50% of that energy wasted. Are you looking for ways to reduce energy consumption in your ...

Michael D. Holloway is President of 5th Order Industry which provides training, failure analysis, and designed experiments. He has 40 years' experience in industry starting with research and product ...

John Robert Parraga is director of process automation at ECS Solutions, Inc. He is an experienced process (particularly batch process) engineer with career stops at Sequentia, the firm that gave the ...

Tom Bishop, P.E., is a senior technical support specialist with the Electrical Apparatus Service Association and has more than 30 years of hands-on and engineering experience at electrical machinery ...

The company’s scrap metal shredding facility in Topsham, Maine, failed to have the correct air emissions license for its shredder. In a recent quote, EPA New England Regional Administrator David W.

The funding will be used to aid federal partnerships with state and local governments, and help federal investments in climate, clean energy, and other areas reach disadvantaged communities. Upgrading ...

Conveyor belts serve as material handling’s essential circulatory system to many industries, ranging from food processing and package handling to harsh mining environments. Rigorous maintenance is ...

Executing a planned outage properly, and running efficiently and effectively until that outage, requires both data and visibility into plant and asset health data. Today’s maintenance and reliability ...