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Designing for Safety: Failure Modes on Gate Valves
For over 100 years, preventing catastrophic failure in the process control industry has been a continuously evolving area of study. To protect life, the environment,...
Valve Actuators: A Brief Guide to Force and Direction Controls
There are two ways valve actuators deliver force: rotary or linear. The force they must provide to the valve has to be sufficient to effectively operate it. However, it...
How to Correctly Size Actuators
Correctly sizing actuators for valves is much more complicated than many people in our industry believe. Too often, people incorrectly assume that all you need to do to...
Why Use Pneumatic Valve Actuators?
Valve actuators, used for operating valves for opening, closing or modulating service, come in a variety of configurations and power sources. Two of the most...
ATI Invests to Increase Production and Assembly Capability in Houston Manufacturing Facility
Automation Technology, LLC (ATI) recently completed an approximate $1.3 million capital investment expanding valve actuation/controls production and assembly...
Why Linear Actuators are Considered for Automating Gate Valves
Many valve industry professionals already know about operating globe valves with linear actuators. But many aren’t aware that a gate valve with a rising stem can also...
7 Industries That Use Valves, and Their Applications
Valves are an incredibly versatile tool that can be found pretty much everywhere. It’s under the streets, in our homes, power plants and paper mills, refineries and a...
How Valve Actuators Can Help Improve Process Control
Valve actuators can be the difference between process failure and success. This is because no matter what your process objective is, flow rates have to be controlled at...
ATI Delivers a Cost-Effective, Flexible Alternative to Standard Orbit Actuators
ATI’s pneumatic actuator specifically designed for Orbit Ball Valve automation offers design flexibility, cost-effectiveness and availability while exceeding...
ATI Hits the Road with Mobile Demonstration Unit
ATI manufactures quality valve automation products built entirely in-house and customized to suit our customers’ specific requirements. To display our broad product...
ATI Frontline Services – Giving Actuators New Life
Valve and actuators are designed for an extended life cycle but, at some point, they will need to be refurbished for re-installation or replaced with new products....
It Takes Vision to Achieve Success
Companies the world over attribute much of their success and leadership to having an established vision for the direction the company should take and a set of core...
ATI Gas Motor Actuators Provide Unique Pipeline Solution for Semgas, L.P.
HOUSTON, TX (July 26, 2017) ATI recently completed an installation of its gas motor actuator at a gathering station for Semgas, L.P. in Oklahoma. As a result of the...
Linear Actuators are Effective for Gate Valve Automation
Surprised at hearing that statement? Often industrial valve users have connected gate valve operation with multi-turn electric actuators, not realizing that linear...
ATI Adds Valve Actuators to New Electric Power Facilities
HOUSTON, TX (April 24, 2017) Automation Technology (ATI) recently provided linear valve actuators for two state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power generation...
Record-Setting ATI Linear Actuator Installed on World’s Largest Gate Valve
The first of five ATI hydraulic linear valve actuators has been installed on the first section of the 150 mile pipeline that will ultimately provide the Dallas- Ft....