Industrial Engineering Best Practices

Explore the journey of a female engineer at Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals—her contributions to drug manufacturing, career insights, and role as a STEM pioneer.

Looking to introduce a girl to engineering or STEM? This guide offers practical ideas, inspiring role models, and resources to spark curiosity and confidence in young learners.

Delve into the story of Elena Rodriguez, a water industry engineer driving innovation in treatment and infrastructure. Learn about her achievements, challenges, and professional journey.

Explore the journey of a female pump engineer mastering mechanics and machine design. Learn how she’s breaking barriers and driving innovation in her field.

Looking to cut energy costs and improve sustainability? Learn energy-efficient engineering strategies—from smart design principles to tech solutions that reduce power use in industrial systems.

Facing hydraulic system issues? Discover how transient simulation allows engineers to predict pressure spikes, pipe stress, and system failures—saving time and avoiding costly downtime.

Looking to bridge the skills gap in manufacturing? This post explores hands-on training programs, industry-school partnerships, and curriculum strategies designed to equip students with the practical skills needed for the factory floor.

Curious about CV values? This post breaks down what they mean, how to calculate them, and how engineers use them for accurate pump and valve sizing as well as efficiency optimization.

Interested in wastewater engineering? This post dives into the design and operation of the historic Paris Sewer Pump Station, highlighting its technical innovations and role in flood and sewer management.

Want to achieve reliable production in pharma manufacturing? This guide covers essential best practices—from equipment validation and contamination control to maintenance strategies that ensure uptime and compliance.

Looking to optimize energy use in your facility? This guide walks through creating an energy management program—covering monitoring, efficiency strategies, and cost-saving measures to boost sustainability.

Want to improve thread production? This post details targeted strategies—precision tooling, cycle-time optimization, and process enhancements—to elevate both efficiency and product quality.

Discover what it takes to maintain engineering excellence on an aircraft carrier—from naval system design and durability standards to rigorous maintenance protocols that keep these floating powerhouses mission-ready.

Looking to extend the life of your hydro pumps without breaking the bank? This post covers aftermarket repair and refurbishment—best practices in overhaul, component inspection, and restoring reliability to aged systems.

Curious how to ensure your pump meets top performance? This article explores Hydro Sets' industry-standard testing protocols—covering flow, pressure, efficiency, and quality validation to guarantee system reliability.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A customer-oriented approach combined with experience in a variety of industries has helped Tolga Arslan become an expert in maintaining and servicing a variety of pumps and valves and other hydraulic equipment.

Abhijit Ray Chauduri has been associated with pump and valve selection, evaluation, procurement, and operation supervision for nearly 34 years. Currently based in Kolkata, India, he is the head of the Pumping Systems Group inside the VA TECH WABAG organization. He oversees the selection, procurement, and operational issues related to pumps, valves, and the associated electrical and mechanical equipment.

Working in various locations around the globe, KRATON’s Ron Bitely, a global electrical and instrumentation reliability engineer, keeps all focus pointed at a target that never moves.

Johan Meijer has spent the past four decades solving engineering problems related to pumping system design—working closely with valves, pumps, and hoses. His experience and knowledge became so deep he developed a powerful and strategic calculation program for high pressure peristaltic pumps that is provided free to end users.

Adolfo Gomez began his career working with agricultural irrigation. This led to hands-on work for chemical processing plants and oil refineries. His diverse experience developed into a passion for teaching and training young end users and sharing his more than three decades of knowledge and experience.

For Randy Estep, the bottom line is designing a safe, cost effective and reliable solution for the application—getting the right pump with the right seal to move a specific fluid for a specific reason. And with a company as large as Dow Chemical, there is an almost endless range of possibilities.

For four decades, Stephen Matthews has been helping facility personnel improve reliability with a “boots on the ground” approach. Matthews uses his engineering, maintenance, operations, and reliability experience to work with companies on various projects in many types of asset-intensive industries.

Michael Flint drives a preventive maintenance strategy at Brown University to help direct wasted man-hours toward reducing a large and growing deferred maintenance backlog.

Special project engineer Edward Hazinski has helped his Plast-O-Matic Valve customers solve reliability and efficiency issues for almost four decades as robotics and computer monitoring advancements continue to change the face of modern manufacturing and create engineering design challenges.

Maintenance professional Saul Cizek uses a lifetime of experience and myriad interests to make a difference at a Virginia water reclamation plant by using maintenance best practices.