Second only to motors, pumps are the most utilized machines in the world. According to the Hydraulics Institute (HI), the industry’s primary forum for the exchange of pump industry information, ...

Select growers on the North and Central Coasts are already using Lumo pump automation to fully automate irrigations from pump to plant on ranches ranging from 60 to 1,300 acres. With block-level ...

Control Techniques, part of the Nidec group, has enhanced its portfolio with the introduction of a specialist pump drive. The new F600 Pump Drive forms part of Control Techniques’ new Specialist ...

Resizing pumps, installing rod-pump controllers (RPCs), and monitoring and analyzing wells remotely with software specific for that purpose increased operational efficiency in Balam South field on ...

The way we control the speed of fan motors or pump motors has tremendously changed in the past two decades with the introduction of variable-frequency drives (VFDs), aka variable-frequency controllers ...

In last month’s column [“Automatic Pumpdown Systems,” Nov. 5], we talked in general about the automatic pumpdown cycle and why it is the only sure remedy for refrigerant migration to a compressor ...

Automation takes mechanization one step further. While mechanization replaces manual labor with machines, automation replaces human guidance with controls hardware, computers, and programming (PCs, ...

Valmet will supply an automation system for Helen Ltd’s Patola air-to-water heat pump plant and two electric boilers currently being built in Helsinki, Finland. When completed, the air-to-water heat ...