InstrumentPackage engineering notes
Practical instrumentation knowledge.
Field-focused guides for instrument engineers creating, reviewing, and maintaining construction work packages.
How to Size a Pressure Transmitter
A practical engineering workflow for selecting transmitter range, span, materials, accuracy, overpressure capability, and installation details.
How to Write a Construction Work Package (CWP)
A step-by-step framework for defining a construction boundary, assembling engineering deliverables, and releasing field-ready work.
What Makes a Strong CWP?
The characteristics that turn a document bundle into a field-ready, constructible, traceable package.
The Art of a Good Loop Diagram: Fusing Is Important
What a loop diagram must communicate, why fusing matters, and how to make field wiring clear and maintainable.
Meeting Client Expectations in an Engineering Package
How to align standards, document sets, reviews, and communication so the delivered package matches the client’s real expectations.
How to Prevent Cavitation in Control Valves
Understand where cavitation comes from, how it damages valves and piping, and the practical design strategies used to control it.
What Is Water Hammering?
Why rapid flow changes create pressure waves, what damage they can cause, and how engineers reduce transient loads.
What Is MAST and How Do You Size an Actuator Accordingly?
A practical explanation of Maximum Allowable Stem Torque and the torque checks required to select an actuator without damaging the valve.
Clamp-On Temperature Transmitters: Do They Work?
Where non-invasive pipe temperature measurement performs well, where it struggles, and what must be controlled for credible results.