downtime
Two Minute Tips
What Drives up the Cost of Rigs?
The turnover of the rig is based on the number of days in operation. If I rent a car and keep it at home, it's a waste of money. It's the same principle...
- Nishanthan Senkuttuvan
- Osborne Engineering Limited
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Using Electrical Maintenance Safety Devices to Bridge the Skills Gap
With an impending skills gap among technical workers, proactive maintenance plans must also be safe, efficient and easier to implement …
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
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Leveraging IoT for Condition-Based Maintenance
Let's start with the basics. What is condition-based Maintenance? Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that ...
- Jay Cooper
- Des-Case
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Continuous Condition Monitoring with Vibration Transmitters and Plant PLC’s
Predictive maintenance techniques have proven to be effective strategies to reduce unexpected machinery failure...
- Meredith Christman
- PCB Piezotronics
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Vibration Monitoring for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Vibration monitoring has been employed for some time now; indeed, we can be certain that it has been in use for almost two thousand years...
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
Five Minute Facts
Real World Case Studies – Preventing Downtime in Bearing and Gear Applications
Examine several cases including a gearbox for a roller in the pulp and paper industry, and a mine hoist...
- Ron Kittle
- SPM Instrument Inc
Articles
EMSDs: Streamlined Maintenance and Reduced Downtime
Electrical equipment requires periodic maintenance to continue to operate as designed, and it is well understood that this maintenance saves money in the long run...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
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Maintenance Inspection Windows on Transformers
Transformers are everywhere feeding various voltages into our homes and businesses. When a transformer fails in a commercial or industrial environment, that failure can disrupt a significant portion of your facility operations...
- Rudy Wodrich
- IRISS
Articles
Large Electric Motor Reliability: What Did the Studies Really Say?
One of the most frequently quoted studies related to electric motor reliability is a 1983 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) project performed by General Electric...
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
