Manufacturing Plant Safety

• Personal Protective Equipment, The Last Line of Defense

  Personal Protective Equipment, The Last Line of Defense – Education is key to employee safety At Matrix Technologies, safety is at the top of our core values because we know our employees are our most valuable resource. We owe it to them and their families to ensure they return home each and every day injury […]

  Read MoreBrian Thomas, COSS / Industrial Automation Engineering  / Manufacturing Operations Management  / Manufacturing Plant Safety  / Manufacturing Process Control  / Management  / Safety 

• How to Lower Your Facility’s Electric Bill: Tweaking Your Energy Efficiency and Power Usage

  How to Lower Your Facility’s Electric Bill:  Tweaking Your Energy Efficiency and Power Usage  Your home electric bill is usually based on a simple calculation: How many kilowatt hours (kWh) did you use?  Your energy consumption can be seen by watching how fast the little disk spins inside your electric meter. Seldom are industrial and […]

  Read MoreVince Trejchel, PE / Electrical Engineering  / Energy Conservation  / Energy Efficiency  / Energy Savings  / Manufacturing Plant Safety  / Power Demand  / Power Engineering  / Power Usage  / Construction  / Manufacturing 

• How to Handle Harmonics in Electrical Power Systems

  How to Handle Harmonics in Electrical Power Systems While musical harmonics can be pleasing to the ear, electrical current harmonics are an increasing problem in power systems. Equipment and cables can overheat, motors can be damaged, and your electric bill could be a lot higher than it needs to be. Without going into Fourier equations […]

  Read MoreVince Trejchel, PE / Harmonics  / IEEE  / Manufacturing Plant Safety  / Power Engineering  / Power Factor Correction  / Power System 

• 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 

• 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