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Does Your Oil Analysis Report Reveal... Cr in your hydraulic fluid? Mn...

Does Your Oil Analysis Report Reveal... Cr in your hydraulic fluid? Mn in your compressor lubricant? Cu in your gear oil? Quit guessing what these elements are and how they got into your oil. The Sourcebook or Used Oil Elements can help you pinpoint the source. Use this reference to...

PM (Preventive Maintenance) is the primary way to ensure the reliability of...

PM (Preventive Maintenance) is the primary way to ensure the reliability of machines, buildings, or other physical assets. Even the most rigorous reliability techniques such as RCM and PMO, in the end, rely on effective PM. In a series of interesting anecdotes, Stories of PM tells the PM person the...

Oil analysis is well established as a routine tool to optimize maintenance...

Oil analysis is well established as a routine tool to optimize maintenance activities, improve reliability and equipment life, and prevent component failures. However, when equipment is grease-lubricated, the important lubricant analysis piece is usually left out of the mix. New developments are improving sampling techniques and streamlining grease analysis tests...

Instructor: Jeremy Wright Course Length: 60 mins License: 1 seat x 365...

Instructor: Jeremy Wright Course Length: 60 mins License: 1 seat x 365 days* Synthetic or not? The devil is in the details. To get value from synthetic lubricants, you must understand when and where to use them. Some applications may result in improved performance while others may be a waste of...

Electro Hydraulic Control (EHC) systems are a critical hydraulic system used in...

Electro Hydraulic Control (EHC) systems are a critical hydraulic system used in many steam turbine applications. Due to the high operating pressures and proximity to hot sections, phosphate ester fluids are often used. Phosphate ester fluids are also used in gas turbine applications and hydraulic systems used in steel and...

This 15-lesson Task-Based Training bundle covers essential lubrication tasks to help you...

This 15-lesson Task-Based Training bundle covers essential lubrication tasks to help you onboard new team members quickly or get your whole team aligned to best-practices. Each lesson provides the context surrounding the task (the “why”) followed by a step-by-step procedure for performing the task properly. Individual lessons range from 5...

Is it Too Late to Resurrect the Last, True Competitive Advantage? Are...

Is it Too Late to Resurrect the Last, True Competitive Advantage? Are we facing the death of reliability? Some believe this is the case, particularly when it comes to reliability leadership. Without qualified leaders, there can be no true reliability, and as such, companies are losing out on the one...

A complete, up-to-date, and immensely useful survey of the maintenance field by...

A complete, up-to-date, and immensely useful survey of the maintenance field by one of its leading educators. The goal of this significantly expanded and updated second edition remains unchanged: to provide a succinct, accessible review of all the major areas in the management of the maintenance function. Whatever the topic,...

Instructor:  Loren Green Course Length: 60 mins License: 1 seat x 365...

Instructor:  Loren Green Course Length: 60 mins License: 1 seat x 365 days* In 2011, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was enacted, requiring that facilities engaged in manufacturing, processing, packing or holding food for consumption in the United States submit additional registration to the FDA. As the most...

Become the lubrication expert in your company. There's a good reason The...

Become the lubrication expert in your company. There's a good reason The Practical Handbook for Machinery Lubrication is our all-time best-selling book. It's packed with useful, actionable information that you'll put to use right away. It answers the tough questions and is written so that anyone can understand it. Once...

Typical leadership training never seems to ‘move the needle’ in terms of...

Typical leadership training never seems to ‘move the needle’ in terms of creating more effective leaders. That’s because the system that supports leadership hasn’t changed. To get true improvement in leadership, organizations need to focus on accountability. There must be an asset management system that defines and assigns accountability. Then individual leaders...

The Reliability Excellence Workbook covers reliability (and other 4-letter words) in the context...

The Reliability Excellence Workbook covers reliability (and other 4-letter words) in the context of creating a master strategy of continuous improvement.. Think of it as a truly interactive workbook—like MadLibs™ for maintenance and reliability professionals. Reading this book is like having a seasoned reliability consultant sitting across the table, helping to drive your...

This is a challenging, innovative, and timely new look at implementing Total...

This is a challenging, innovative, and timely new look at implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) by one of the field's leading trainers and authors. The book takes into account the economic upheavals of recent years and demonstrates that TPM is less about moving maintenance tasks to operations than moving accountability...

While corporate asset management (CAM) has been a hot topic for the...

While corporate asset management (CAM) has been a hot topic for the past decade, the demands of the transformational requirements (culturally, technologically, procedurally and philosophically), compounded with the time it takes to achieve them, often mask or even prohibit the visibility of bottom line financial benefits. In this paper, you'll...

Interpreting an oil analysis report can be a daunting process when one...

Interpreting an oil analysis report can be a daunting process when one is faced with tens, perhaps hundreds, of numbers on the page. Yet by breaking this task up into manageable sections, the task can quite effectively be simplified. This paper breaks the diagnosis process up into twelve steps, covering...

Learn how and why defects on different components of a bearing will...

Learn how and why defects on different components of a bearing will generate vibrations at frequencies determined by the bearings geometry. Author:  Jim Crowe, Crowe Vibration TechnologiesSource:  Reliability World 2007 Conference ProceedingsPages:  6Figures and Illustrations:  19Format:  PDF - Digital Download

Misalignment left uncorrected can have damaging effects on machine components. Misalignment will...

Misalignment left uncorrected can have damaging effects on machine components. Misalignment will reduce coupling life, bearing life and overall motor health. It can be a bit confusing when trying to identify misalignment using vibration analysis because the vibration response is often dictated by the mechanical configuration of each machine. Therefore,...

Gain a more in-depth understanding of two of the most critical oil...

Gain a more in-depth understanding of two of the most critical oil analysis tests for industrial machinery. Get practical explanations of how particle count and viscosity are measured and reported on an oil analysis report, and see side-by-side comparisons of common testing methods and how they compare with test results...