Compare, choose and size industrial equipment.

Ten industrial boiler makers compared for 2026: owners after the Miura, Watts and Carrier deals, boiler types, model lines and published size ranges.

Firetube vs watertube boilers compared: pressure, capacity, footprint, start-up time, steam quality, efficiency, maintenance and cost, with sources.

Honeywell 7800 vs Fireye BurnerLogix and Nexus vs Siemens LMV: flame detection, linkageless control, O2 trim, lockout history and comms compared.

Electric vs gas steam boilers: cost per 1,000 lb of steam with a worked example, efficiency, CO2, resistance vs electrode sizes and electrical service.

Convert boiler horsepower to steam output (lb/h and kg/h), kW and Btu/h, or work back from steam demand to the boiler size you need.

Calculate the continuous blowdown rate a steam boiler needs from feedwater and boiler-water TDS, the cycles of concentration, and the heat and water lost.

Estimate boiler combustion efficiency, stack loss and excess air from flue-gas O2 and stack temperature with the Siegert formula, for gas, oil or propane.

Fault codes, alarms and symptom guides with the checks that confirm each cause.

ABB, Siemens, Rockwell, Yaskawa, Danfoss, Schneider, Mitsubishi, WEG and Invertek compared on fault logs, apps, manuals and where each fits best in 2026.

ABB ACS580 vs Siemens SINAMICS G120/G220 vs PowerFlex 525/755: network integration, harmonics, fault history, software tools, and which fits your plant.

Makers’ successors for discontinued VFDs:Yaskawa V1000 to GA500, PowerFlex 700 to 750, ACS550 to ACS580, ATV61 to ATV600, plus a migration checklist.

The same VFD fault, six brands: overcurrent, overvoltage, undervoltage, ground fault, overload, overheat, phase loss and comm loss codes from OEM manuals.

Estimate the energy and cost a variable frequency drive saves on a centrifugal fan or pump, using the affinity laws and your operating hours at each speed.

Fault codes, alarms and symptom guides with the checks that confirm each cause.

FANUC 0i-F Plus, 30i-B Plus and 500i-A vs Siemens SINUMERIK ONE, 828D and 840D sl vs Haas NGC: programming, alarm tools, service and 2024–2026 news.

FANUC 0i-F Plus vs 500i-A from FANUC’s own documents: axes and paths, 5-axis, CPU, αi-D servo, iHMI2, battery-less design, and whether to wait.

How FANUC, Haas and SINUMERIK number their alarms, the most searched codes (SV0401, SV0411, Haas 108, 25050) from maker manuals, and first checks.

Calculate spindle RPM and feed rate for milling and drilling from cutting speed, tool diameter, chip load and flutes, in inch or metric units.

Fault codes, alarms and symptom guides with the checks that confirm each cause.

Yaskawa, Mitsubishi, Kinetix, Siemens, FANUC, Beckhoff, Panasonic, Delta, Kollmorgen and Rexroth servos compared on networks, encoders and upkeep.

Yaskawa Sigma-7/Sigma-X vs Mitsubishi MR-J5 vs Allen-Bradley Kinetix 5700: networks, encoders, battery-less options, tuning, safety and alarm displays.

Servo encoder error, overload, overcurrent, overvoltage and following-error codes for Yaskawa, Mitsubishi, Kinetix, FANUC and Siemens, from OEM manuals.

Calculate the load-to-motor inertia ratio for a servo axis, including a gearbox or belt reduction and a disc or cylinder load, and see whether tuning will be easy.

Fault codes, alarms and symptom guides with the checks that confirm each cause.