Reaches over 35,000 medium to large plants across all U.S. processing and durable goods industries, including utilities and power generation facilities.

Plant Services serves the field of plant engineering and maintenance manufacturing as well as process industries and utility and power generation. Audiences include: executives, managers, superintendents, plant engineers, operations, maintenance, plant, facilities and purchasing personnel. (Tradepub.com)

Market Overview

American manufacturing is the most productive and efficient in the world. Each year, U.S. companies invest more than $100 billion in capital equipment and services. They build new plants and are continuously retrofitting, updating and redesigning existing facilities with up-to-date technology.

With an average installed base of more than 30 years old, maintaining the plant infrastructure and reliable production capabilities is more important than ever in order to remain competitive with newer overseas manufacturing plants. This requires constant monitoring, systems redesign, repair and replacement. Increasingly, manufacturers are regarding maintenance and reliability as a key part of their culture and an essential component to their profitability and their ability to remain competitive.

The $100 Billion MRO Market

Investment

    * U.S. companies invest more than $100 billion annually in capital equipment and services
    * New plant construction
    * Maintaining the plant infrastructure
    * Maintaining reliable production and manufacturing capabilities
    * Continuous redesign, repair and replacement

Competitive Pressures

    * Overseas competition...90,000 new plants in Asia-Pacific region since 2000
    * Government regulations
    * Workforce cuts
    * Investor expectations
    * Budget Pressures

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They don’t make ’em like that anymore
Centrifugal compressor designs have improved greatly in the past 30 years.

Modern industrial centrifugal compressors represent an energy-efficient, effective supply of compressed air. Their advanced designs and manufacturing capabilities offer energy savings opportunities to those who understand how to select and install them. The compressor’s operating characteristics, which some might call “quirks,” represent opportunities to the savvy plant professional.

In a recent compressed air review at a large paper mill, we investigated six 500-hp, three-stage centrifugal compressors, all of same model by the same manufacturer and built at separate times during a 30-year interval. The operating curves for these units revealed differing specific power ratings and operating characteristics at 100% full load discharge pressure (Table 1). Much of this improvement in the later versions comes from machining and production processes that work with microns of tolerance instead of the mils used in the past. That capability frees engineers to follow visions that weren’t practical a few years ago. Also, improvements and new technology in electronics, controls, main drivers, inlet guide vanes and the like contribute to overall improvements in basic performance and flexibility. ...

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How qualified do you need to be?
In this installment, Acme learns the value of having two good hands. Remember, only the names are changed to protect the innocent.

Washington gets an ‘Aha!’ moment
Contributing Editor Joel Leonard provides our leaders within the Beltway with facts about the competitive advantage that maintenance and reliability can provide for organizations in the United States.

Diaphragm seal decisions
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Target Audience

Plant Services reaches 100,000 + BPA audited subscribers responsible for optimizing the productivity of North America's industrial infrastructure.

    * Plant & Department Management
    * Maintenance & Supervisory
    * Engineering
    * Purchasing

Plant Services reaches over 35,000 medium to large manufacturing plants across all U.S. processing and durable goods industries, including utilities and power generation facilities.

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