Position Monitors Articles
Position the Future – Westlock Controls’ Positioners
Providing modulating valve position control, the range of Westlock valve positioners offers electro-pneumatic and digital units to deliver reliab...
Valve User Issue 77
Festo’s New Smart Positioner with HART Communication: For quarter turn and linear actuators: economic and flexible
The CMSH positioner provides you with all the benefits of a highly dynamic, low-wear positioning system with high air output and a long service life. ...
Valve User Issue 75
Parker supports life science OEMs
Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, demonstrated its latest products and system solutions for OEMs to improve devic...
Valve User Issue 51
Combating obsolescence to maintain critical equipment commonality
Equipment manufacturer commonality is a key feature at any operating oil & gas asset for all types of mechanical equipment, whether it be pumps, turbi...
Valve User Issue 50
Parker announces connectivity enhancements to its valve portfolio: Easy to configure Industrial Ethernet node expands connectivity options
Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, as part of its global focus on factory automation, has added an expanded range ...
Valve User Issue 50
The best metal butterfly valve lining for demanding media?
Lining a metal butterfly valve with a thermoplastic material, typically a fluorocarbon, means that media does not come into contact with any metal par...
Valve User Issue 50
Anti-Cavitation Valve Trim Helps Improve Plant Availability and Safety
Emerson’s Fisher™ Cavitrol Hex severe service valve trim reduces or eliminates cavitation to improve rotary valve performance and extend operating lif...
Valve User Issue 48
Advanced Valve Solutions, Start-Stop Operation Summary
Introduction
The worldwide introduction of wind, solar power and other renewables create an increasingly flexible demand on gas fired power stations...
Valve User Issue 48
Valve-Kits – the Original Kits Specialists
Valve-Kits - the specialist valve and actuator kits manufacturing company - has just opened
its new 18,000 sq. ft manufacturing and warehousing facil...
Valve User Issue 48
Using Position Transmitters on Automated Valves for Enhanced Plant Operational Efficiency & Safety
Over the past 30 years, globalisation, pressures
on costs and the desire for greater efficiencies have led
to a significant reduction in manpower an...
Valve User Issue 45
25 Years Working in the Valve Position Monitoring Industry
The realisation that 2018 represented the 25th anniversary of my starting full time employment in the Valve Position Monitoring Industry arrived with ...
Valve User Issue 45
J+J Stock Power Genex Products
J+J Automation, a leader in valve actuation solutions in the UK for over 20 years now has stock in Matlock of Power Genex products, the quality South ...
Valve User Issue 45
Digital Position Control Transmitters: The SMART PST Method
Testing the installed base is an incredibly important aspect of any valve monitoring program, and partial stroke testing (PST) methods are the go-to s...
Valve User Issue 44
F31K2– Valve Position Sensing with a Global View: Traditionally, limit switch boxes with mechanical, magnetic or inductive contacts are used to detect the position of the valve in valve actuators.
However, open solutions are also gaining in popularity on the market due to their compact design and easy installation. The F31K2 dual inductive senso...
Valve User Issue 43
Pepperl+Fuchs go mobile…
Pepperl+Fuchs are taking to the road to showcase their latest innovations. From November 2017 their team of sales engineers will be travelling through...
Valve User Issue 43
Westlock Controls Launches New Product: Also presents itself as a Crane ChemPharma & Energy business for the first time at 2017 Valve World Americas Expo.
Westlock Controls, a leading manufacturer of valve monitoring and networking equipment, presented its products and services at the 2017 Valve World Am...
Valve User Issue 42
Bonomi (UK) Ltd Aids Customer Design with 3D Drawing Solution
Process valve and actuator supplier Bonomi (UK) Ltd is helping its customers achieve more accurate and faster system design solutions through the prov...
Valve User Issue 41
EnerMech Acquires Electrical & Instrumentation Specialist in Largest Deal to Date
Engineering services specialist EnerMech has made its first entry in to the electrical and instrumentation (E&I) sector with the acquisition of EPS Gr...
Valve User Issue 41
ABB Introduces Measurement Care Service Agreements for Process Plants: ABB creates new cost-effective set of instrumentation and analyser maintenance service agreements for process plants
ABB Measurement and Analytics has introduced a new set of service agreements aimed at helping process plant operators to maximise the performance of t...
Valve User Issue 40
Rotork Introduces a Revolutionary Wireless Valve Monitoring Concept: Complete valve adaption service provided by Rotork Valvekits.
Rotork RI Wireless is a revolutionary concept for wireless valve monitoring and diagnostics, offering end users significant cost benefits. The field p...
Valve User Issue 40
Valbruna U.K. Ltd Joins the BVAA Membership: Acciaierie Valbruna is a private company with 2,500 employees and an annual output of 200,000 tonnes of speciality steels.
The company is a fully integrated producer of stainless steel, high nickel and titanium alloys ‘long products’ with mills in Vicenza and Bolzano in It...
Valve User Issue 40
New Micropulse Linear Displacement Systems in Profile Housing
Balluff has enhanced its line of magnetostrictive Micropulse transducers with two new versions. With the BTL7-S5… and the BTL7-P511… the company is of...
Valve User Issue 39
Balluff: Open, Modern and Future Orientated
Founded in 1921 in Neuhausen a. d. F., Balluff employees 3,000 people worldwide and represents innovative technology, quality, and maximum customer or...
Valve User Issue 39
Smith Flow Control Enters Nuclear Industry with FlexiDrive Remote Valve Operator
To improve the safety of workers in nuclear facilities, Smith Flow Control now offers the FlexiDrive remote valve operator.The system can easily be ad...
Valve User Issue 38
Orseal Valves at Filanovskogo – One of the Largest Crude Oil Finds in Decades
The Filanovskogo (Filanovsky) field, 50k offshore in the Northern Caspian Sea, was discovered in 2005. With reserves of 153.1 million tonnes of oil an...
Valve User Issue 37