The Three C's of Liquid Filtration: Clarity, Color, and Contaminants
Submitted by Norm Hall || Valin Corporation
Learn how liquid filtration improves clarity, color, and contaminant control in food, beverage, industrial, and chemical processing applications.
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Vision Integration Transforms Collaborative Robotics
Submitted by Luck Chand || Valin Corporation
In the world of automation, both industrial and collaborative robots have proven invaluable in improving efficiency, repeatability, and safety. However, many robots in use today still operate in what can be considered a “blind” mode.
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A Blueprint for Predictive-Ready Packaging and Processing Equipment
Submitted by Corey Foster and Michael Ecklund || Valin Corporation
Predictive maintenance starts long before the machine hits the plant floor. Here’s how OEMs can harness known failure patterns, targeted sensing, and embedded intelligence to reduce service calls and boost customer uptime.
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Optimizing Plant Compressed Air Systems: Point-of-use Filtration, Multi-stage Purity, and Predictive Maintenance
Submitted by Kari Kohonen || Valin Corporation
Explore best practices for designing and maintaining compressed air systems to match air quality requirements.
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Engineering 101: Three Ways Heat Can Transfer
Submitted by Ryan Kraus || Valin Corporation
Learn the fundamentals of heat transfer and how conduction, convection & radiation impact heater performance. This Engineering 101 guide makes complex thermal concepts easy to understand and helps you choose the right heating solution for your process.
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Smart, Intrinsically Safe I/O Systems Bring IoT Connectivity to Hazardous and Mobile Environments
Submitted by Michael Ecklund || Valin Corporation
Traditional fixed I/O architectures are giving way to mobile, cloud-connected, self-contained units.
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Strategic Planning for Refinery Turnarounds
Submitted by Rich Wilbur || Valin Corporation
Early planning, inventory readiness and supply-chain collaboration are critical for successful petroleum refinery turnarounds.
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Decoding the Encoder Decision for a Motion-Control Project
Submitted by Corey Foster || Valin Corporation
How to choose between digital incremental encoders, analog encoders and absolute encoders.
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Navigating the Challenges of Motor Commutation
Submitted by Corey Foster & Bruce Ng || Valin Corporation
In the world of motion control, engineers often face the challenge of integrating different brands of drives and motors into a cohesive system. At first glance, mixing and matching equipment might not seem like a problem, especially if the sizes of the components line up.
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Do You Believe in Electrical Ghosts? Understanding Electrical Noise
Submitted by Corey Foster || Valin Corporation
Electrical installations are the backbone of any industrial system. A well-executed installation can prevent numerous issues, while poor ones can introduce problems that are difficult to diagnose and fix.
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Level Transmitter Technology Options: How to Choose
Submitted by Steve Molinari || Valin Corporation
There are several key factors that need to be explored before settling on the appropriate level transmitter technology for a given application.
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4 Robot Types to Integrate Into Applications
Submitted by Tom Trinh || Valin Corporation
When and why to consider SCARA, Cartesian, articulated and collaborative robots.
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Signal Towers: More Important To Your Business Than You Think
Submitted by PATLITE
Stack lights – we've all seen them. They are the bright, LED light towers encountered in manufacturing and industrial sectors. They serve a range of applications and are typically installed on top of machines, systems, and on walls. Some towers are also suitable for indoor and outdoor use.
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Easy Remote Notification with Wireless Control System
Submitted by PATLITE
The WIO Wireless Control System is a Bluetooth enabled system which allows for remote indication and monitoring.
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Pneumatic Control Panels to the Rescue
Submitted by Sri Gavini | Business Development Manager – Industrial Automation at Valin Corporation
A sanitary water district in California partnered with Valin Corporation to address a challenge in its operations. Moreover, the district was looking for a complete, turnkey solution, meticulously engineered and pre-assembled for immediate deployment. Read the article below to learn how Valin helped.
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Why Operating Environment Matters for Actuator Selection
Submitted by Bruce Ng || Valin Corporation
Actuators are required for a variety of operations throughout a multitude of different industries. With so many different potential applications, one would correctly assume that the options can often be overwhelming. Many of these actuators only require a base-level of sizing that is mostly driven by the load (for the bearings) and the desired motion profile (for the drivetrain).
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Rotary Valves Can Prevent Stem Seal Woes
Submitted by Peter Jessee || Valin Corporation
Experienced process control engineers follow familiar, time-tested steps when presented with a new system to design and specify. Selecting a control valve for a process always requires the same information: collection of the process conditions, calculating required capacity and determining the materials that will survive in the process stream. But some process streams present more challenges than others.
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Renewable Hydrogen: More than Meets the Eye
Submitted by Dave Molinari || Valin Corporation
We are still in the very early stages of widespread adoption and deployment of renewable hydrogen technology in the United States.
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Coalescing 101: Sizing and Considerations
Submitted by Joe Bodle and Norm Hall || Valin Corporation
In the world of industrial filtration, one of the most common activities involves the removal or displacement of water from another liquid. However, this process is further subdivided into three distinct phases. Chronologically, the first of these phases is particulate filtration (sometimes referred to as prefiltration).
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Effective Inventory Management During a Turnaround
Submitted by Kari Kohonen || Valin Corporation
Nothing will impede a successful plant turnaround like improper planning. One aspect of this planning is effective inventory management, and the keys to achieving this are properly identifying and communicating maintenance needs. Read the article below published in Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine to learn more.
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Post-Acquisition, Valin Enabled to 'Do What We Do Best'
Submitted by Anna Wells || Industrial Distribution Magazine
Anna Wells from Industrial Distribution Magazine interviewed President of Valin, Anne Vranicic, on Valin's outlook one year since being purchased by Graybar.
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Hydrogen Production: Back to Basics
Submitted by Cory Calderon || Valin Corporation
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was signed on August 16, 2022, and included financial incentives that were intended to drive more investment and deployment of clean hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
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Bridging the Gap from IIoT Promise to IIoT Reality
Submitted by Ray Marquiss, Corey Foster || Valin Corporation
Although new tools and technologies are available to make tapping into industrial IoT more manageable, one must ensure expectations are accurate.
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The Evolution of Differential Pressure Flowmeter Technology
Submitted by Steve Molinari || Valin Corporation
There are many different differential pressure flowmeter designs to achieve long-term dependable, accurate flow measurement.
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