Two Minute Tips
Go Digital With Your CMMS – How Digitization Can Help Sustainability
Sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint have been global priorities for years. When it comes to change, the limelight has unfortunately been focused on asset-intensive industries such as oil and gas. While the goal may be reducing emissions associated with operations, there are places where you can go green, and save money in the process...
- Sophie Strobel
- HubHead Corp.
Understanding the Lubrication Challenges of Aging Assets
Industrial assets can begin to break down after a few years of use if not lubricated properly. Assets maintained with a static condition monitoring program last longer, but still cannot reach the lifespans of equipment monitored with cutting-edge technologies and best practices…
- Adrian Messer
- Progressive Reliability, LLC
Three Into One: Triaxial Vibration Monitoring
This quick tip helps explain why triaxial accelerometers are a useful solution in vibration monitoring where multi-axis vibration measurement is required...
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
The First Step to Creating a World-Class Oil Analysis Program
When you start implementing an oil analysis program, you need to decide which equipment in the plant to sample...
- Evan Zabawski
- TestOil
Failure to Start? What’s Next?
If your motor fails to start, what actions do you immediately take? There are a variety of possibilities and questions that come to mind to help you in the right direction ...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Evaluation of Wound Rotor Motor with Electrical Signature Analysis
The primary difference between an induction motor and a wound rotor motor is that the rotor has windings, slip rings and a variable resistance in order to vary speed or soft start an application...
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
What Are the Limitations of the Crackle Test?
In an effort to communicate the limitations of the crackle test in detecting water contamination...
- Evan Zabawski
- TestOil
Using Oil Color as a Field Test
Have you ever wondered how or why the color of oil changes?
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook
If You Had One Tool for Reliability What Would It Be?
The practice of reliability has many tools, processes and methodologies...
- Trent Phillips
- Novelis