Flowserve manufactures pumps, valves, seals, and actuators for flow control in industries such as oil and gas, power generation, chemical processing, water management, and nuclear operations. The company's engineering heritage spans over 230 years through more than 50 legacy brands, with current operations across 50+ countries and a workforce of over 16,000 associates.
The RedRaven platform is Flowserve's digital innovation effort, providing IoT-powered monitoring for industrial fluid systems. This enables condition-based maintenance and operational visibility across distributed assets - relevant to robotics engineers working on autonomous inspection, predictive maintenance systems, or closed-loop control of flow equipment. The company also develops energy recovery systems, expanding the control problem space into regenerative applications.
For engineers in automation and robotics, Flowserve's actuator and valve product lines represent the mechanical interface layer between digital control systems and physical fluid processes. The constraints here are severe: high pressures, corrosive media, safety-critical shutdown requirements, and decades-long service lifecycles that demand robust, field-proven hardware-software integration rather than laboratory-optimized solutions.
