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Better Than Bellows, Scallon Controls Showcases the Next Generation of PRVs

The Crosby™ J-Series pressure release valves with balanced diaphragm technology minimizes risks by replacing the bellows with a flexible reinformed elastomer diaphragm. Diaphragms are inherently more resilient for higher backpressures and rapid pressure cycling applications. The next generation technology helps reduce maintenance costs, improve reliability, increase safety, and lower emissions.

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Experitec’s Reliability Solutions Team Debunks the ROI Myth for Process Manufacturing Plants

It’s true that expense and time are the most common factors that prevent people from making incremental improvements in their reliability journey. However, the facts remain that most downtime events and unplanned costs are usually due to a handful of ‘bad actors’, and it only requires a small investment to monitor the health of those critical assets. The Experitec team takes this on in our long-running MythBusters series.

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Control Associates Acquires MV Controls

Control Associates, Inc. has announced its acquisition of MV Controls, Inc., an HVAC solutions provider serving the same region. This acquisition expands and extends Control Associates’ HVAC leadership position by allowing them to offer supplemental steam and hydronic solutions and components, in addition to the wide variety of premier steam solutions and technical acumen that Control Associates already offers.

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Harden Your Operations Technology Assets Against Cybersecurity Risks With Control Associates

Regardless of your situation or industry, Control Associates’ experts can help better prepare your network and systems for any cyberattack. They will utilize a variety of OT infrastructure services to assess and monitor your systems—available on-premises or in the cloud. Their services include the identification and assessment of vulnerabilities, remediation of protection gaps, and securing your process shop floor systems from cybersecurity risks.

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Safety at the Forefront for a Massive Automation Conversion by Experitec

This manufacturing customer was upgrading its entire process control system, ultimately rewiring every cabinet at its site, as well as replacing all of the back panels and Motor Control Center (MCC). As one of Experitec’s largest projects, this required a two-week shutdown for full implementation, as well as an additional week for commissioning. Of the 4,000 hours dedicated to this enormous undertaking, Experitec reported zero injuries.

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NCCPAP Releases March 2023 Tax Update

NCCPAP has released its March 2023 Tax Update. Highlighted topics of this month’s report include Tax Year Progress Report, SB/SE Division Updates, the Burden Survey Program, and multilingual initiatives.

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Keep Valve Repair Off Your Radar With Experitec’s Outage Management Services

Experitec understands that customers’ availability to schedule adequate time into planning for an outage is at a premium. The value of their outage management team is their proficiency in orchestrating customers’ entire outage event—scope, resources, parts, replacement valves, diagnostics analytics, prioritization by criticality, and all of the coordination. In short, exceptional planning, trusted resources, and flawless execution are what their customers value, and what they pride themselves on delivering.

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R.E. Mason to Host Sustainability Summit

Join industry leaders, R.E. Mason, and Emerson at their inaugural Sustainability Event on Monday, May 22nd from 10AM to 3PM in Chapel Hill, NC. Attendees will learn from the speakers’ sustainability journeys, share challenges, and explore opportunities with peers.

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