
I’ve been a mechanical contractor for 30 years, but seldom have I encountered a situation like the one I found recently at a dairy plant in Ohio.
Gamma Graphics technicians are in the field daily testing pipe systems all over the globe. They’ve seen miles and miles of pipe, visited hundreds of facilities, and learned a lot along the way.
These are their stories.
I’ve been a mechanical contractor for 30 years, but seldom have I encountered a situation like the one I found recently at a dairy plant in Ohio.
I assumed this job on a relatively “young” system would be similar to others we’ve conducted. I was wrong.
Henry is a Senior Procurement Director at a large company with responsibility for over 150 locations. His organization gave him the mandate to modernize
“Jim, there is something in your last report that I want corrected in this one,” began the plant inspector for a facility we were at in California.
We were recently looking at a large warehouse that had over 50 insulated penthouses on the roof with identical piping configurations.
It’s a common misconception that pipes are in pretty good shape unless there is something visual on the pipe exterior that suggests otherwise.
I received a call from the U.S. Navy asking if I would demonstrate the non destructive testing capabilities of Radiometric Profiling.
“Would you please tell me how you saved us a million dollars?” The unusual greeting was from Adam, a technology researcher at a major U.S. oil company.
The ammonia plant I am responsible for has hundreds of thousands of pounds of ammonia flowing through its pipes.
“Well, if you can’t explain why you didn’t do anything about the 40% wall loss indicated in this report, I’m going to cite you,” said the OSHA inspector.