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5 Top Ways to Reduce Equipment Maintenance Costs
You can change how you operate by adopting practices that ensure you always get the best results in maintenance, reliability, and life cycle. This is possible when you embrace a new philosophy and methodology that allows you to quickly make site improvements in your engineering, operations, and maintenance processes. Given that many plants report maintenance…
Read More6 Steps to Optimize Maintenance Practices
Plant owners across the globe are aware Lean maintenance practices can improve production, minimize downtime, and reduce costs. Unfortunately, as much as 90% of performed maintenance in the United States is done reactively, instead of proactively. Reasons for this include aging equipment, scarcity of spare parts, and the increasingly higher demand in manufacturing speed. We…
Read MoreEquipment Series – Wind Turbines
In the next installment of our Equipment Series, we will focus on wind turbines. A wind turbine uses the natural movement of air to spin the turbine and create energy. They are manufactured in a wide range of vertical and horizontal axis turbines. The smallest wind turbines can be used to charge batteries or as…
Read MorePump Basics
A simple definition of a pump is that it is a form of turbomachinery or a piece of equipment with a mechanism that transfers fluid or another form of media without any human effort. One of the most common types of pumps is the centrifugal pump, which transfers media using an engine, electric motor, or…
Read MoreOur ISO 9001 Journey: Compliant – at Last!
During the final phase of our ISO 9001 project, we continued to focus on implementation of various requirements of the ISO 9001: 2008 standard. There were a number of verifications performed to ensure that our QMS met all specified requirements. On-Going Implementation Some implementation activities take longer to complete, so we had to carry…
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