In 2016, the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) decided to add a biosolids dryer facility (BDF) to the municipal water and sewage treatment plant for the City of Detroit. They contracted with the New England Fertilizer Company (NEFCO) to design, build and operate the BDF, which treats sludge and reduces wastewater solids volume through dewatering….
Grand Prairie Independent School District (GPISD) located near Dallas, Texas, serves more than 29,000 students on 38 campuses. This student population is projected to grow substantially in the future. Given this growth, three years ago, Dianna L. Drew, Director of Logistics & Documents Services for GPISD, improved GPISD’s logistics issues with a computerized maintenance management…
It can be challenging to keep a university housing system working properly with effective work order management and forecasting abilities of future maintenance requirements. In 2014, one university housing office began searching for an efficient way to automate work order and asset management with a computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) system. The univeristy’s housing assets…
Optotech is a leader in optical machinery equipment and has a range of machinery and process technology for precision and ophthalmic optics. John Marhefka, a field service engineer for OptoTech, explains that OptoTech’s customer base includes the people who order the equipment to make lenses. According to Marhefka, one of OptoTech’s servicing generators—located at their…
Pure Environmental uses thermal remediation to eliminate bed bugs in residential units. With the main office in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the company operates branches in Virginia, Maryland, Oregon, Washington and Canada. Due to increased international travel and a lack of education in bed bug prevention, the demand for treatments is increasing. According to Mike Parker, the…
Recently a team of Fluke employees visited with Filmwerks International, a cross-functional team of maintenance professionals that services various broadcast networks during live events, including professional football, to see the power monitor in action. While Filmwerks is headquartered in Rocky Point, North Carolina, we had the pleasure of tagging along as they set up uninterruptible…
Filmwerks International already employs Fluke 3540 FC Three-Phase Power Monitors to collect shore power data to share with its clients. The team got a first look at a thermal imaging sensor outside one of its custom-built trailers, deployed to provide uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for event broadcasts for major television networks. Surrounded by the humming of broadcast trailers,…