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    Janell Haws
    June 3, 2025
    Knowing AI’s capabilities and limitations before your investment will set up your inspection application for success.

    Maintenance & Safety

    The challenge is to quickly and accurately distinguish between smoke from an actual fire and the typical background airborne particulates during meat processing.
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    Effective remote monitoring requires close collaboration between reliability engineers, maintenance teams and operators.
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    NFPA 660 is now the only combustible dust NFPA standard
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    Powdered material and dusts are sent to specialized labs that can administer various tests to glean valuable and actionable data for your facility's hazard identification process.
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    Acoustic imaging offers many benefits over traditional inspection methods, including ease of use, scalability and safety for employees during inspections
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    Technicians must use a gap inspection tool after initial fitting installation to ensure the fitting has been tightened sufficiently to prevent leaks.
    Mike Aughenbaugh
    Oct. 15, 2024
    Well-designed leak control strategies can lead to significant savings and better system performance.
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    Personal sampling pumps are the best way to accurately gauge the level of exposure to individual workers and comply with regulations. Attached to the wearer, these pumps draw the air in the wearer’s immediate breathing zone through a sampling media such as a sorbent tube at a controlled flow rate.
    Tim Turney
    Sept. 25, 2024
    Tim Turney, Global Marketing Manager for global monitoring equipment manufacturer Casella, shares insights on the dangers of gas leaks to employee health and wellbeing and how...
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    Plant executives, operations, and maintenance managers are increasingly seeking help to maximize the availability of production equipment and maintenance efficiency while still meeting stringent quality requirements.
    Matthew Boudreau
    Sept. 18, 2024
    Discussing the benefits of targeted, condition-based, predictive monitoring with industry experts Matthew Boudreau and Kyle Hester of Valmet.
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    Even within the dustiest food processing environments, advanced detection systems like Honeywell’s VESDA-VEU can accurately distinguish dust from smoke inside a dust collection system.
    Del Williams
    Sept. 16, 2024
    Aspirating smoke detection (ASD) is designed for reliability and is capable of customization to minimize false alarms and maintenance, while increasing safety.
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    Oil and gas companies that flare excess gasses must visually monitor and manage the frequency and length of time at which flares occur.
    Jill Burdette
    Sept. 13, 2024
    Technology such as the Flare Monitoring Solution can deliver actionable data and efficient, automated responses to relentlessly reduce the release of greenhouse gases to the minimum...