Gauging Chain-Sprocket Life: An Easy Method
Don’t let chain and sprocket end-of-life concerns get you down. The author describes a simple approach that can help reduce needless replacements and keep your systems rolling.
Planning to Fail? Take Your Maintenance Planning to The Next Level
Despite what many plant pros think, low wrench time isn’t “as good as good as it gets.” This article discusses how sites can nearly double maintenance productivity. It requires commitment
Innovative Medium-Voltage, Vacuum Circuit Breaker
Per ABB, versus traditional products, its latest 38 kV VD4 offering saves $100K over its lifetime.
Reliability Leadership: Get It Right from The Start
Filling reliability-leadership positions is a serious matter. And there’s more to it than many in plant management might think. Check out the author’s tips for selecting the best leaders possible.
Sustainable Manufacturing: Managing Organizational Friction & Flow
Sites need to be “agile” on their environmental-sustainability journeys. Adaptive innovation teams can reduce resistance to implementation, even in the most hierarchical of organizations.
Revisit Your Bidders’ Lists, Sooner than Later
Heinz Bloch gets questions on many topics. Here, he shares an exchange with a machinery engineer concerned about recommendations for several API V56 pumps and an associated disregard for reliability-assurance efforts.
Regarding Reliability of Electric Motors: Annex D in IEEE 43-2013
The test outlined in Annex D pertains to the Insulation Resistance Profile, a method of interpreting the Polarization Index curve and related patterns and capacitive discharges. The author explains some important details.
Implementing Precision Maintenance: Real World Experiences
Precision maintenance is not just a matter of doing maintenance better and watching problems disappear. Its implementation and subsequent payoff calls for a good plan and a system in place to execute it.
Software Supports Safe, Healthy Workplaces
New Honeywell Digitized Workforce Management solution helps enforce “new normal” safety and health requirements.
Sustainable Manufacturing: Where What Gets Measured Gets Done
Is your organization (or a client’s) serious about revving up its sustainability efforts? A number of important metrics and relevant industry standards, including ASTM E 3096-18, can ease that journey to the future.
