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Knowledge is power, knowing the flow rate helps users save energy and resources, isolate problems and confirm correct operation of a system.

Reactive maintenance is a policy that’s been made to sound respectable by giving it a professional sounding name. But when you consider that it’s essentially...

Food and beverage manufacturers want to have the best of all possible worlds: optimum cost-efficiency, combined with consistently high standards of hygiene and

How long is a problem with a piece of hose going to hold up your process? A few minutes? A few hours? A few days? It all depends on the nature of the problem, t

Festo Training & Consulting’s recently published research, ‘People & Productivity’, shows that over the past three years, skills shortages have increased in the

If you’re familiar with Parker, you know they have been manufacturing components and subsystems for industrial equipment for a long time. One hundred years to b

Air blowing activities consume almost half of all compressed air used in plants and can often become an unrecognized burden on a business’s resources.

It’s a technology that’s been around for a very long time. So you might think pneumatics can’t possibly have anything new to offer, bar the odd minor tweak. But

We all know that there are many hidden horrors in our factories and plants. They are often overlooked, undervalued and pushed aside when maintenance teams...

Kitting solutions for OEMs are nothing new. In fact they’re an acknowledged way to achieve lean manufacturing and value engineering. But there are kits of...

Think about possible causes of a fire or explosion, and a rubber hose probably won’t feature on your list. But using the wrong type of hose to convey certain...

Most hydraulic hose is not really that tough, that's why it needs spring guards and nylon sleeving to give it any chance of surviving more than five minutes...