Many chemical companies are striving to improve the reliability of vacuum systems, lower total cost of ownership and meet regulatory requirements for emissions standards and noise reduction. To address these demands as well as specific vacuum technology problems, vendors are responding with novel applications of established equipment as well as new technologies.

Enter dry vacuum pumps. Chemical Processing chatted with Busch Vacuum Solutions’ Jason Stiel, Ph.D., chemical and pharmaceutical sales manager, about the benefits and challenges of dry vacuum pumps.

What are human factors? Dave Strobhar -- founder and principal-human-factors engineer for Beville Engineering – defines human factors and offers sound advice going forward.

In this Minute Clinic, we tackle font size requirements in regard to alarm management.

This Minute Clinic episode offers straight-forward solutions to help operators make better decisions. 

Diagrams and line labeling could save thousands of dollars when it comes to operator performance.

In this Minute Clinic, we learn how to calculate total operators required to cover a post position. 

Many companies use targets to drive design and that can lead to negative consequences.

In today’s Minute Clinic, we learn about alarm redundancy without alarm duplication.