Скачать или смотреть Design to Automate Episode 3

Automation is harder than it needs to be. In our "Design to Automate" series, I will share with you what I have learned over the last 40 years of working in automation. We often make suggestions on how a change in material, process, or design could make a project easier, more cost-effective, or result in higher quality. Sometimes our customers listen! Other times, not so much.

Today's episode is on building pipelines for H2S or sour oil. In oil deposits deep beneath the earth, sulfur-reducing bacteria metabolize sulfur and produce hydrogen sulfide. This "sour oil" will corrode steel and release atomic hydrogen, which causes stress corrosion cracking and catastrophic failure. The solution is to hot wire GTA clad weld pipe with Inconel 625, a nickel superalloy. With miles of pipe to weld we needed to develop a fast efficient technique. We broke some rules and came up with a faster, more reliable technique we call TriPulse. Watch the video below for the backstory.

I hope that you will question EVERYTHING on your next automation project and look for ways to make your job easier. Because sometimes you must change a rule, you just have to figure out which rule to change.

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