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Street-smart is a term generally used for a person who has situational awareness and the skills to survive in tough urban environments. It also describes someone who relies more on practical rather than theoretical knowledge.

Check valves, during operation, may have vibrations in their internal Discs that produce repeated impacts of the Disc against the opening stops, causing wear and fracture of the hinge, pins or the bolts that hold it.

The following excerpt comes from a chapter related to changes in industrial plants from the book “Still Going Wrong” by Trevor Kletz, a useful compendium of accidents and near-accidents and why they happened.

Companies do not exist in a vacuum. Whether they are a product or service provider, all companies are a part of one or more supply chains that create and deliver value to an end user.

The COVID-19 coronavirus has swept across the globe in a relatively short period of time, halting business operations and production schedules from east to west.

Reliability is critical for the whole supply chain. For subsea assets and equipment, any failure or malfunction within a unit poses not only a major safety concern, but also results in a serious production cost, downtimes, aquatic life and environmental damage and loss of asset.

For even the most experienced engineers and technicians, analytical sampling system design presents a unique challenge. Analytical sampling is an intricate process, and what can seem like inconsequential design deviations can significantly influence sample accuracy. Inaccuracy leads to troubleshooting, troubleshooting leads to downtime, and downtime leads to lost dollars stemming from design flaws or installation errors that could have been eliminated upfront.

The energy crisis of the 1970s ended the era of cheap oil, and it also started a race for offshore production. When the barrel price crossed the double-digits barrier, the higher costs for developing more complex drilling and production systems became justified.

The coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2).

As facilities get older, more repairs and replacements are required to keep a plant and its applications operational. Inspection teams are called in to make recommendations on the best steps to move forward, and that is where William Wilson found his niche.