by | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog
This is a snubbing unit under a drilling rig. The drilling rig includes the red platform you see up in the air. The snubbing unit is the next platform below. Snubbing units can control pipe by pushing the pipe down into a hole, or pulling it out. The advantage of a...
by | Sep 2, 2014 | Blog
We designed this pallet conveyor to lift pallets up to 3000#. The elevator sits in front of an automated storage and retrieval system and is up to 90 feet tall. The scissors extend to pick up the pallet then retract as the pallet is lifted to the desired level. The...
by | Jul 16, 2014 | Blog
I have been hanging at The South Texas Oilfield Expo. I had been walking around for a while taking in the sites on equipment. There are so many cool innovations pushing the industry forward. After wandering a bit, I was surprised to see something I was familiar with...
by | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog
One of the things that helps with doing engineering analysis well is having thousands of hours of experience seeing problems. Sometimes failure can be hard to figure out. There can be multiple stresses in an application environment which must be accounted for....
by | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog
We get to have some of the fun toys in our engineering work. Thought I would share about one piece of hardcore equipment. We can do some pretty sophisticated engineering analyses, and much of it would not be reasonable to do or cost-effective without our special...
by | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog
One of the things that helps with doing engineering analysis well is having thousands of hours of experience seeing problems. Sometimes failure can be hard to figure out. There can be multiple stresses in an application environment which must be accounted for. Having...
