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I have noticed an increasing reliance on electronic monitoring on pumps generally together with steam turbine driven pumps. It is to an extent deskilling pump engineers as it appears that instead of a regular walk round the plant ….listening and smelling for problems …..from what I am reading most of a “watch” will be take place from a distant control room…Also Seal manufacturers are having too much say in pump production / repair instead of being subservient to manufacturers they are “complicating ” the field to ensure that they have sales….