Process-intensive Industrial Operators are increasingly wading into the digital transformation revolution to streamline production in the face of globalization, a shifting workforce, and heightened cyber security threats. Delivering safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly operations while maintaining a competitive advantage over peers is virtually unachievable without intelligent adoption of technology and cultural acceptance of changes to long standing processes, written by Jeffery Sipek.

The Orbit 60 platform is complementary to the broader solutions portfolio, providing our valued customers with more flexible options for new projects, retrofits, and applications across the facility, written by Darren Evans.

Older machinery protection systems, and even transmitters and simple vibration switches marketed today, only produce a “Direct” vibration measurement. Since the Direct value contains contributions from all sources of measured vibration, it is the one measurement that can provide a comprehensive representation of the overall health of the machine. However, relying on this measurement alone has drawbacks, written by Mark Snyder.