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Control valve diagnostics

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Health monitoring leaves fewer reasons to live with stiction, wrong-sizing and excessive wear.

Miniature modular designs provide solutions for process analyzer sampler systems

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Monitoring and controlling chemical processes using instrumental analysis methods significantly contributes to product quality, effective energy and raw material use, environmental performance, safety, and the overall plant profitability. Automated online process analyzer systems provide a real-time view of a process and help users make rapid adjustments that ensure better process control.

Plug it in

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Efforts to tighten communications of condition-monitoring instrumentation and data analysis software with CMMS and automation infrastructure, combined with the proliferation of wireless sensor systems and the drive to reduce manpower skill and time requirements, are bringing implementation costs down and drawing much attention to this approach. But should you implement it?

Mechatronics redux

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Integrating mechanics, electronics and software empowers power transmission.

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Podcast: Littelfuse's Larry Altmayer discusses the paradigm shift in plant electrical infrastructure

Larry Altmayer, POWR-GARD services manager for Littelfuse Inc., says we must consider electrical infrastructure to be a dynamic system that requires regular attention and a formal preventive maintenance program.