How to Diagnose High Shaft Current Motor Bearing Failures with ESA and MCSA
In some cases, diagnosing high shaft currents in electric machines requires additional testing. In...
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Maintenance and Reliability
Why Your RCA Effort Is Doomed (Unless You Fix These Issues)
Most of us have all worked at places with some degree of a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) effort. They...
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Vertical Pump Success: Auditing Bearings, Seals, and Lubrication Systems
Vertical pumps are available in numerous configurations and excel in such areas as ease of...
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Are Your MTBF and MTTF Numbers Giving False Confidence?
Maintenance and reliability teams rely on mean time between failure (MTBF) and mean time to...
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How to Estimate Maintenance Costs Based on Asset Replacement Value
One of the quickest ways to determine the pattern in an organization is to see how much money is...
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How Deferred Maintenance Becomes a Costly and Risky Burden
Maintenance and engineering managers know that deferred maintenance never goes anywhere. In the...
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How Smart Maintenance Management Lowers Costs and Boosts Reliability
In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, maintenance and reliability professionals face...
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How Reliability Strategies Cut Compressed Air Energy Costs
Compressed air systems are an essential part of most plant operations but can be a plant’s...
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Measuring Progress in Maintenance by Managing with KPIs
Understanding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Maintenance We often refer to metrics, a term...
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Return On Net Assets (RONA): The Ultimate Test of Asset Management
Return on Net Assets (RONA) is commonly referred to as a measure of management effectiveness. From...
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Predictive Maintenance or Just Educated Guesswork?
The Problem with Predictive Maintenance I’m a big believer in oil analysis, vibration...
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How to Prevent Root Cause Analysis from Becoming a Money Pit
Properly conducted RCAs are time-consuming and resource-consuming, so when we are not getting the...
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