Failure of the mechanical shaft seal is the most common cause of pump downtime. The shaft seal is exposed to a wide variety of conditions and it can be quite difficult to identify why a seal failed. This post will take a look at the most common costs of seal failure and readdress how we reduce the frequency of seal failure.

Previous posts to our blog have spent some time talking about BPE fittings and other parts of the ASME BPE Standards, but it occurred to us that a lot of people don’t know what the ASME BPE is. This post will go into some more detail.

Today’s post will take a look at sanitary perforated sheet and wedgewire strainers inserts and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.

This post will take a look at a trick to identify your old C series, as well as a few other ways Holland can help support your aftermarket sanitary pump needs.

Today we’ll be take another look at the fill needle itself and cleaning considerations following manufacture- specifically, ultrasonic passivation.

A tremendous amount of this blog has focused on how we can optimize a process to get a product to the final filling stage, but little of the information available to consumers today focuses on the specific challenges that can occur during the final fill process. This post will highlight some common challenges during filling, needle tip geometries, and the problems they address.

Outside of efficiency, the low slip design of the Waukesha Universal series pump allows us to accomplish four useful things- it allows us to pump low viscosity fluids in low NIPA systems, it allows us to pump from vacuum vessels, self-prime, and meter fluids. This post will look at each of these four benefits and why they are important to system performance.

This post will focus on what a sanitary surface finish is and specifically the relationship between Ra, micron, and grit

One of the most common errors made when sizing an ECP pump, such as the Waukesha Universal 1 or Universal 2 series pump, is failing to take into consideration the range of product viscosities the pump will handle. This post will focus on that issue and what steps we can take to ensure adequate drive speed range is selected to handle a variety of products. To begin, a sanitary process system may require that the same pump handle both viscous and thin products. A simple example c

Today’s post will focus on another best in class product offered by Waukesha Cherry Burrell- the W60/80 line of seat valves and 5 specific benefits they offer over the competition.

This blog post is the first in a series that will try to give a concise overview of the properties relevant properties for single use tubing and connectors.

This post will focus on good sanitary pump piping practices and things you should keep in mind for your next sanitary PD pump install.

Colder has created a robust product portfolio of Aspeptiquik connectors to help address the need for intuitive, simple, and cost effective sterile connections

To commemorate all of the hard work over a dozen different employees have contributed, today’s post will take a look back at all the work we’ve done on this blog, what we want to continue to do with this blog, and our plans for the future.

This post will give an overview of the most common sanitary gasket materials and the pros and cons of each material.