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Learning Paths
Monitoring Failure Mechanisms
This course explains common failure mechanisms, types of equipment to which each applies, and recommends non-intrusive monitoring techniques to discover components in various stages of progressive failure.
- Ray Garvey
- Innovative Transition LLC
Two Minute Tips
What Are the Root Causes of Wear in Industrial Machinery?
Taking appropriate action is almost impossible if you don’t know what the root cause of the failure is. Generally speaking, there are a handful of causes that are found to be responsible for most of the damage to – and failure of – industrial machinery...
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
White Papers
Cracking the ISO Code to Lubricant Cleanliness
So what does it really mean to increase lubricant cleanliness? We read various articles and textbooks that talk about how increasing the cleanliness of an in-service oil will increase the life of a component and the lubricant, but how do we make that happen...
- Mark Barnes
- Des-Case
Two Minute Tips
Three-Body Abrasion
How does three-body abrasion occur and how can you stop it?
- Mark Barnes
- Des-Case
Two Minute Tips
What Causes Machines to Wear?
In this quick two minute tip, we discuss the factors that cause machines to wear...
- Mark Barnes
- Des-Case
