Compromises with Safety at work leads to fatal consequences. All large industries emphasize a lot on Safety of people at work. But the sad reality is, that across various industries we still have fatalities every year. Each fatality, that does occur in metal and non-metal sites across USA, has different reasons. But the core issue…
Vital Few and Trivial Many
It is just surprisingly true that the principle of Pareto is applicable in many use cases in our lives. As a Process Engineer when I started my journey in the heavy industries years ago, I became introduced with this idea that 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes ( vital few ), engineers coined…
Net-Zero: An individual’s perspective while mother nature is crying
Net-Zero. The awakening word that we hear every day, or perhaps not, depending on our interest, engagement in social discussion or content reading, and belief in science. Just a personal note, I have actually set my social media contents both by believers and non-believers of global warming. I find it interesting to see both side’s…
Predicting Cement Process and Incorporating Artificial Intelligence in Cement Plant Operations
Predicting machine performance and reliability is a reality now. With rigorous methods of inspection, advanced instrumentation in place, machine reliability is already within industry’s reach. In a complex process plant, however, in my opinion machine reliability should not be focused alone as a distinct subject matter. Machine is used to perform the process operations; for…