Pump monitoring and communications

Improving the utilization of plant assets involves careful monitoring and control of plant and equipment so that action can be taken to prevent any unplanned outages and to ensure that optimum efficiency is attained. This means more and better-automated monitoring and communication of data in a form easy for engineers and managers to assimilate at any location. Bryan Orchard looks at a cross-section of product and equipment offerings coming onto the market. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]