Safety

• Using an Arc Flash Study to Improve Worker Safety

  Using an Arc Flash Study to Improve Worker Safety Protecting workers from extremely high temperatures, tremendous pressure blasts and shrapnel hurling at high velocity resulting from an arc fault is of paramount importance in every facility’s operation. An arcing fault is the flow of current through the air between phase conductors or between phase conductors […]

  Read MoreRon Studtmann / Arc Flash  / Engineering Consulting Services  / Industrial Automation Engineering  / Industrial Safety Service  / Manufacturing Operations Management  / Risk Assessment  / Safety  / Safety  / Upgrades 

• Servo Controlled System Upgrade Optimizes Inline Bottle Capping

  Servo Controlled System Upgrade Optimizes Inline Bottle Capping Servo-based systems can deliver crucial efficiency and flexibility in industrial manufacturing. Here’s how Matrix Technologies helped a prominent manufacturer of food and beverage products and consumer packaged goods test and integrate a new servo controlled inline bottle capping system. The Goal: Faster Capping and Reconfiguration A leading […]

  Read MoreTom Chase / Food & Beverage Engineering  / Industrial Automation Engineering  / Manufacturing Operations Management  / Motion Control  / Rockwell Solution Partner  / Servo Systems  / Planning  / Safety  / Integrations  / Rockwell Automation  / Upgrades 

• How Modern Grain Hazard Monitoring Control Systems Cut Risks

  How Modern Grain Hazard Monitoring Control Systems Cut Risks Grain hazard monitoring is a critical issue for the grain industry and food and agriculture companies. The accumulation of grain dust in a storage facility can produce a deadly explosion, such as the 2017 explosion at Didion Milling in Wisconsin that killed five and injured twelve. […]

  Read MoreTony Ferguson / Arc Flash  / Control System Upgrade  / Food Manufacturing  / Grain Hazard Monitoring Systems  / Industrial Automation Engineering  / Manufacturing Operations Management  / Multidiscipline Engineering  / Estimating  / Planning  / Safety  / Integrations  / Upgrades 

• How to Use a Scoring System When Performing a Risk Assessment

  How to Use a Scoring System When Performing a Risk Assessment In industrial facilities, safety risks may exist that can result in equipment damage and injuries. That’s why a careful risk assessment of machines and related equipment is necessary to ensure operational safety, and to identify ways to mitigate or eliminate those risks. A risk […]

  Read MoreCarl Bohman, PE / ANSI B11  / Industrial Safety  / ISO 13849  / Risk Assessment  / Risk Mitigation  / Scoring System  / Task-Based Pair  / Safety 

• 10 Best Practices of Preparing for a Machine Risk Assessment

  10 Best Practices of Preparing for a Machine Risk Assessment One of the best ways to promote manufacturing plant safety is a task-based machine risk assessment. But conducting an effective assessment requires taking plant personnel away from their jobs, sometimes for as long as 4-24 hours. This is by far the most common complaint about […]

  Read MoreTim Lemoine, PE / Industrial Automation Engineering  / Industrial Plant Management  / Industrial Plant Safety  / Industrial Safety  / Industrial Safety Service  / Machine safety  / Manufacturing Operations Management  / Manufacturing Plant Safety  / Risk Assessment  / Safety  / Improvement  / Upgrades 

• Circuit Protection: The Difference Between Circuit Breakers and Supplementary Protectors

  How to understand the difference between a circuit breaker and a supplementary protector, and their specific applications.

  Read MoreBrian Haury, PE / Electrical Engineering  / Power  / Safety System Design  / Improvement  / Planning  / Safety 

• What is a Task-Based Machine Risk Assessment?

  Task-based machine risk assessment is a proven, methodical tool to identify, assess, and document the hazards of operating machinery in an industrial plant. Learn how task-based machine risk assessment can improve safety in your facilities.

  Read MoreTim Lemoine, PE / Industrial Automation Engineering  / Industrial Plant Management  / Industrial Plant Safety  / Industrial Safety  / Industrial Safety Service  / Machine safety  / Manufacturing Operations Management  / Manufacturing Plant Safety  / Risk Assessment  / Safety  / Improvement  / Upgrades