Total Failure and Defect Cost Each business organization is different and each defect, error, and failure it suffers has different consequences. The…
Author: Bob Jennings, Hydro Inc. The Best Efficiency Point, or BEP, is a term that is used quite often in pump…
SIMS Pump Company was tasked to investigate the possibility of re-designing of the existing Metallic Enclosed Centrifugal Impeller and manufacturing…
Voltage unbalance and it’s most severe form, single phasing, cause up to 14% of motor failures, per a 2003 Cooper…
Did you know that the instrumentation technician is a better friend to the Pump Reliability Engineer, than the vibration analyzer…
One of the most costly mistakes that almost every company makes with their pumps, is actually buying the wrong pump.…
The connection between suction specific speed Sw (NSS)and minimum flow (Qmin) is that, in general, a higher value of Sw (NSS) is associated with…
Each year millions of dollars are spent maintaining pumps that are installed in systems designed to fail. It is important to…
How do you choose the best flexible pump connector to join a pump and pipe? In fact, why are they…
We often review our maintenance budgets and try to find ways to lower it and other ways to cuts costs.…
Author: Randal Ferman Underfiling is the removal of material from the underside (also back side, “non-working” side, or suction side) of…