Automate For Accident Reduction
Could you afford to lose 31.2 million working days? According to The Labor Force Survey, this figure illustrates the volume of unplanned worker absence...
Reducing Environmental Friction with High-Performance Coatings
Specialized physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings are widely recognized for the critical role they perform in enhancing operational performance and extending the life of...
New Submerged HPUs Increase Reliability of All Hydraulic Powered Machinery
For heavy machinery like snowplows, dump trucks, backhoes, front loaders, and rear loaders, Hydraulic Power Units (HPUs) provide the “muscle” behind critical operating machinery...
A World Without Downtime
Utopias are common in fiction, from Plato’s The Republic to The Federation in Star Trek. For manufacturers, a world without unplanned downtime would be...
Anatomy of a Tailstock Rebuild-Repair
Established in 1969, Riten Industries, Inc. is the largest domestic manufacturer of live centers, dead centers, and face drivers in the work holding industry.
A...
Continuous “Hands Off” Insulation Resistance Testing of Critical Motors
For decades, plant personnel have performed insulation resistance tests with handheld megohmmeters to prevent motor failures that lead to costly unplanned shutdowns, penalties and...
“Time-to-Action” Forecast Analytics
Digital Twin solution enables industrial companies to predict, diagnose, forecast, and prevent downtime of critical equipment
Predictive analytics provide early and accurate detection...
Want to Breath Clean Air in Your Facility?
Air-Vac Systems Inc. has been manufacturing Industrial Air Cleaners to maintain clean air in machining facilities, heavy equipment, diesel repair, and Welding Shops for...
Human-Centered Design Drives Latest Generation of High-Performance HMIs
For decades, operators in manufacturing facilities have relied on Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for a visual overview of their process systems to monitor critical...
Industrial Safety: Supplying Headlamps as Critical PPE in Hazardous Environments
Industrial plants have a duty to protect employees by providing a safe work environment and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required for the job. However,...