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Closing the Manufacturing Skills Gap: Develop a Well-Trained Team
Closing the Manufacturing Skills Gap: Develop a Well-Trained Team Andy Hitchcock, Product Manager, Global Services Manufacturing plants all over the world are facing a growing challenge—highly-tenured employees nearing retirement, creating a manufacturing skills gap. For plant managers, this means...
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Improve Maintenance with Valve and Hose Tags
How to Improve Your Maintenance Program with Valve and Hose Tags Imagine you are a technician performing maintenance on an industrial fluid system. You receive a new work order—several hoses require attention in a certain application in the system. You take a look at the relevant application, and ...
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Solving Semiconductor Fabrication Challenges with Insulated Hoses
Solving Semiconductor Fabrication Challenges with Insulated Hoses Doug Nordstrom, Senior Product Manager, Hose Products and Yoon Jiang , Regional Market Manager, Semiconductor In the world of semiconductor chip production, precision and cleanliness are intersecting priorities. Temperatures inside ...
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Q&A: Semiconductor Manufacturing Past, Present, and Future
Semiconductor Manufacturing Past, Present, and Future: A Q&A with Industry Consultant Carl White Moore’s Law , a concept first put forth by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in 1965, predicted that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (or microchip) will need to double every two years ...
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API 682: Building Better Mechanical Seal Support Systems
API 682 and You: Building Better Mechanical Seal Support Systems Sean Hunsicker, Market Manager, Chemical & Refining Market Mechanical seals became the dominant sealing technology in refineries and chemical plants in the 1980s, causing the American Petroleum Institute (API) to establish a committe...
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Industrial Virtual Visits: A New Form of “On-Site Experience”
How Swagelok is Providing Customer Value Through Virtual “On-Site” Experiences On a recent morning in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, Stacey Phillips stepped into the heart of a natural gas processing facility. As Swagelok’s field engineering manager for the Americas, she had visited many similar ...
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Pitting Corrosion vs. Crevice Corrosion in Stainless Steel
How to Recognize and Prevent Pitting Corrosion and Crevice Corrosion Buddy Damm , Senior Scientist, Swagelok Corrosion—the deterioration of engineered materials by chemical interaction with their environment—is an extraordinarily costly problem. The global cost of corrosion is estimated at approxi...
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What Industrial Trends are Affecting Fluid System Operators?
How to Adjust to Global Trends Affecting the Clean Energy, Semiconductor, Oil and Gas, and Chemicals Industries Every day, global megatrends affect our businesses—whether we realize it or not. Staying aware of those trends and their potential impacts can help us make smarter decisions, regardless o...