AstraZeneca Improves Reliability by Incorporating Proactive Maintenance
/Biopharmaceutical manufacturing company AstraZeneca leverages an advanced reliability program to streamline more-effective maintenance processes.
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Identifying and Solving Technical Issues During Commissioning
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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.
Read MorePump Stations Protect New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina's 10th Anniversary
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina's massive devastation, Congress approved $14 billion for a 350-mile ring of protection around New Orleans with a promise to build bigger and stronger levees. The construction of pump stations have been built and more are in progress to keep the city’s three main drainage canals from being overwhelmed by future storms.
Read MoreSuperstorm Sandy Disaster Response - How Pump Companies Helped the U.S. Northeast Recover
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Hurricane Sandy, later upgraded to Superstorm Sandy, was the deadliest, most destructive and strongest storm of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Several pump companies deployed equipment to the flooded areas immediately after the storm made landfall near Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 29, 2012 to help the area recover from the destruction.
Read MoreCollegiate Tribology Program Closes Manufacturing Skills Gap
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A one-of-a-kind program at Auburn is helping develop manufacturing engineers with hands-on experience that translates directly to real-world jobs. Whether it’s an airport runway, a manufacturing robot, fluid couplings, power transmission, a tile floor, human-joint replacement, hard-drive technology, or biomedical equipment, surfaces are in constant contact with each other in the mechanical world. The result is friction and wear. In fact, one fourth of the world’s manmade energy is lost to friction. Tribology is used to maintain, control, monitor, and positively manipulate friction, and studying it has the potential to make innovative contributions to industry, society, and environmental conservation.
Read MorePowering Auto Production—Mercedes-Benz Robust Power System
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A highly sophisticated electrical protection and control system helps Mercedes-Benz keep the power running and its people and equipment safe.
Read MoreWater and Wastewater Pumping Solutions—Industry Trends 2017
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Advancements in water treatment and plant modernization were driving growth in the water and wastewater pumping industry in 2017.
Read MorePreventive Strategies for Maintaining Electrical Systems at a Pharmaceutical Facility
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When it comes to maintaining electrical systems connected to rotating equipment like valves and pumps, it is important to have preventive programs in place to prevent small mistakes from causing big problems, according to Bill Myers, Electrical Distribution Specialist for AstraZeneca’s Facility Engineering Department at the West Chester, Ohio plant. This is especially true in a sterile pharmaceutical environment that maintains more than 2,000 assets.
Read MoreBuilding Industrial Engineering Startups that Make an Impact
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For more than 30 years, Steve Tourigny has been involved in the design, development, and management of many products, processes, plants, and businesses. Through his experience, he gained expertise with startups, helping companies get key projects off the ground. With extensive engineering, operations and partnering experience, he now works has an independent consultant servicing a variety of industries in an advisory capacity.
Read MoreOil and Gas Pumping Industry—3 Challenges and 7 Trends
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Pump suppliers discuss trends and challenges in the oil and gas industry involving smart technology, competitive delivery, and optimized equipment efficiency.
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