A Cost-Effective Solution for the Service Manager Meet Jim, he is the service manager for a US based petrochemical plant. His job is to plan and manage maintenance schedules, to ensure maximum productivity, as well as the highest levels of…
A Headache Pill for the Plant Manager Meet Bob, he is the manager of a US chemical plant. His plant is one of a number of plants around the world owned by a large global corporation. Bob was suffering from…
The Sinopec refinery in Hainan, China, was recently shut down for a planned four-week maintenance outage. Amongst the many jobs to be completed during the tight schedule was the torqueing of four critical joints ranging from 12 to 52 bolt…
Anybody involved in the industrial bolting industry over the past two or three decades will have seen massive changes taking place in safety, accuracy and data collection. It really isn’t that long ago since the “master bolter” claimed they could…
So, we all have our own theories about why leaks occur, old faulty pipework and fittings, poor system design and of course, human error. But which is the real culprit and by how much? Well finally, true data has been…
There is a global web of pipelines transporting a variety of products including Oil, Gas and Fuel. In the United States alone, there are 3.2 million kilometres of pipelines carrying natural gas and hazardous liquids. The PHMSA recently announced new…
A REAL WORLD-WIDE WEB There is an actual, physical world-wide web encircling our planet. A massive network of pipelines transporting oil, gas and various other fuels and chemicals across and between countries. For the sake of this article we will…
Following the meteoric rise of Torq-Comm over the last year to market leader in the industrial bolting data collection sector, few will be surprised to learn that the organization has taken another massive step towards global customer support. CEO, Paul…
Of Course We Can Here at Torq-Comm, we are all about making the job as easy as possible for all concerned from the company CEO to the bolting technician. We all know that English is the most widely spoken language…
A Sobering Lesson In Verifying Bolt Load If anybody ever doubted that verifying the correct residual load in each and every bolt is key critical in industrial bolting applications, read on. On December 24th 2015 a three-year-old wind turbine collapsed…