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A big hurdle for industrial plant managers is finding ways to minimize maintenance costs without hampering productivity and efficiency. These costs can range between 20% to 30% annually, and, depending on the scale of production, unplanned downtime due to maintenance intervals can cost companies thousands upon thousands of dollars per hour. 

One key in helping to keep annual maintenance costs low is partnering with an authorized service center (ASC) for industrial equipment repair and troubleshooting, especially when it comes to ensuring the long-term reliability, precision, and durability of pumps and compressors. 

While working with a service center that a manufacturer does not back can help plant managers save money upfront, there can be significant ramifications over time, particularly in terms of equipment failure from using remanufactured parts. 

With this in mind, let’s look at a couple of ways that partnering with an authorized service center can help plant managers experience a greater ROI on their maintenance costs, and how choosing the right ASC can help you increase the service life of your equipment. 

What’s the difference between choosing an authorized service center (ASC) and an unauthorized service center for industrial equipment maintenance and troubleshooting? The difference is saving time and money or losing time and money. For plant operators working in highly competitive industries, diminished productivity and efficiency from choosing an unauthorized service center just isn’t an option. 

Recent supply chain difficulties and material cost increases have emphasized the importance of an asset management strategy for plant operators in a wide range of industrial contexts. Plant assets include the property or equipment necessary for production processes — think everything from industrial pumps and compressors to warehouses and transportation vehicles. 

The market for clean hydrogen energy is growing rapidly — the global demand for clean hydrogen grew by almost 5% in 2023, and this rate of growth is expected to continue through the next decade. The push for the development of clean hydrogen in the U.S. is being bolstered by the Biden Administration’s recent $7 billion initiative to support the production of this “green” energy source. 

The use of high-viscosity fluids is common in a wide range of manufacturing environments, everything from food & beverage production to the drilling and refining of oil & natural gas. Regardless of the application, high-viscosity fluids can be challenging to handle and can require specific industrial pumps and flow meters to optimize both efficiency and productivity. 

There is a fine balance to the timing of when plant operators recalibrate their industrial flow meters. Failure to recalibrate your flow meter can hamper performance, diminish your productivity, and reduce your process efficiency. Recalibrating an industrial flow meter too soon can fail to produce desired productivity and efficiency results, and this can result in wasted time, resources, and costs. 

As green energy technology continues to evolve, clean hydrogen has emerged as a powerful and versatile energy carrier that more producers are incorporating into their production processes. This is in large part due to the fact that clean hydrogen that is produced using carbon capture technology can help reduce harmful emissions in a wide variety of industrial and manufacturing contexts where cutting carbon emissions has been a key challenge. 

There are some industrial applications where centrifugal pumps simply aren’t the best tool for the job. In most instances, this is because the industrial application calls for the use of medium-to-high-viscosity fluids or liquids that contain a high percentage of entrained gasses. Such applications are most commonly found in the oil and gas, concrete, chemical, and petrochemical industries.

The oil & gas industry is constantly innovating new methods of extracting, processing, and refining the raw materials necessary for the manufacturing of high-quality products. Hydrofluoric (HF) acid alkylation is a mission-critical refining process used to produce clean-burning, high-octane gasoline blending stock to help increase the fuel efficiency of car and truck engines. 

Accurate, consistent, and timely dosing of water and admixtures is critical to the production of high-quality concrete that is workable and durable enough for long-term use. However, the tools and processes necessary to manufacture concrete that meets these benchmarks varies depending on whether you’re a ready-mix or precast concrete producer.