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Upcoming Event: Fall 2024 Webinar – Adding Capacity Back In

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If you have been around our blog for any length of time, you may see that we tend to do these things called webinars. I’m sure you have even attended a few webinars over your professional career. Well, this is my shameless plug for you to register for the one I am presenting.

I’ve always been a person who has leaned into continually improving. I struggle with this from time to time. However, improvements don’t always come in the form of losing half the weight you need to within a month or a radical change in how you structure your day. Bettering yourself, to me, can more often than not mean a 5mm change. Why did I choose 5mm? I don’t know. Actually, it was due to a sermon I heard years ago and felt as though it was directed at me.

See the thing is, these very small changes that you may not notice so much day to day add up over time. Just like compressed air leaks, inefficient blow offs and artificial demand. That’s why I have put together this webinar. CCASS holders can utilize it for a continuing education credit, and others can use it as their 5mm change for the day, week, month, or year.

This event won’t be an infomercial for just EXAIR products. Instead, there will be a block of time when I try to explain where these compressed air costs come from and then methods that can result in a much bigger change than a 5mm change in the amount of money spent on compressed air.

Please follow the link and register, even more importantly, show up on October 24th, 2024 and listen to my spiel.

Brian Farno, MBA – CCASS Application Engineer

BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF

Pictionary Is Not What Should Come To Mind When Looking At Facility Drawings

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Does anyone else remember the episode of Friends where they were playing Pictionary and no one could guess what Monica was drawing? No, well, honestly, that’s the scene I thought of when looking at some system drawings for compressed air setups. If you need a refresher, see the YouTube clip below.

1 – Pictionary | Friends

When trying to ensure you have a sustainable compressed air system within a facility, it is critical to ensure the layout is documented. This can be a very tedious task on existing systems that have been in place for years without any documentation, it doesn’t mean the idea should be lost. This can save considerable time and effort when looking at issues and or expansion of existing usage. The other point this can help greatly with is documenting and fixing leaks on your way to an optimized compressed air system.

Along that same line, I’ve seen numerous reports over the past decade that all point to improperly maintained filter drains in compressed air systems that account for a large percentage of the 30% total system leakage that facilities can see. So I want to educate on the different types of P&ID symbols used for regulators and filters on compressed air systems so that our readers can better their preventive maintenance plans and install checkpoints at each one of these on a routine schedule.

If you are evaluating your compressed air system and trying to come up with a preventive maintenance plan, then each one of these symbols should be on a preventative check routine in order to ensure they are not a contributing factor to compressed air waste within your facility.

If you want to discuss other ways to optimize your compressed air system or other P&ID symbols used for pneumatic system components, reach out to any of the team here, and we will help you with your current situation.

Brian Farno, MBA – CCASS Application Engineer

BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF

1 – Friends, Pictionary|Friends – Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2bX0ctoFs – published – 10/1/2023