August , 2024

To most organizations, procurement is fundamentally a cost center.  While this is the traditional perspective, what if we were to lay out an alternative case in which procurement could be viewed as a profit center as well?  That's exactly what we're going to do in this article, from the specific perspective of industrial process instrumentation.  

Not long ago, we had only a vague idea of what the phrase ‘screen printing’ meant. We had a rough mental image of t-shirts and golf umbrellas printed with artistic company logos, but it was not until a recent project that we found out what industrial screen printing was all about first-hand. For this project, a new client introduced themselves as a manufacturer of advanced textile screen printing equipment, and asked for help solving a print quality concern they kept running into. As the client explained, the issue involved vacuum control and required a sensing solution to save them from the unexpected downtime and wasted prints their end-users were experiencing. At that, we knew we could help figure out a plan of attack and jumped into action.

This article kicks off our new Instrumentation 101 blog series, designed to help readers build up their familiarity with common process sensor types, their applications, and their key selection criteria, beginning with fluid pressure sensors.