A recent case study involving a large chemical processing facility provides useful perspectives on the value of a comprehensive facility instrument audit. It will also give you a good idea of how WIKA's Full Audit Service Team can help you reduce the complexity of …
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Preventing Gauge Failure from Ambient Corrosion
| Tony Maupin | Know-howAmbient corrosion is ever present in chemical, petrochemical and refining operations. Plant processes often involve the use corrosive materials that leak trace amounts into their nearby surroundings. Over time, even the lowest concentrations of these corrosive agents …
Preserving Knowledge in the Age of Millennials
| Tony Maupin | WIKA insightMany businesses count on their employees to pass on institutional knowledge from one generation of employee to the next, and the changing lifestyle and work habits of millennials could threaten this generational-knowledge model. The problem is particularly acute in …
Gauge Inventory: 3 Ways to Lower Costs, Improve Reliability
| Tony Maupin | Know-howGauge inventory has a way of mushrooming, leaving storerooms stocked with duplicate and obsolete items that can create uncertainty about purchasing and replacing parts. In fact, Instrument Audits of more than 300 processing plants showed that on average a …
Little Things Can Cause Big Problems
| Tony Maupin | ApplicationsAn old nursery rhyme begins with the verse, “for the want of a nail.” Hard as it might be to believe, this fable has a lesson to teach about plant downtime and production efficiency. The rhyme offers a sequence of events involving a nail, a horseshoe, a horse, a …