Maintenance Articles


OverHeating Sometimes

2/23/06
I have over the years been called on numerous times to help identify the source of periodic overheating problems, particularly with DC motors, and a few times with PLC's ...more...


To outsource maintenance or not!

1/20/05
Outsourcing maintenance is growing in some area's, while it can have definite advantages, it is not for every situation. I have promoted this idea for years, but only for some specific situations. While it can be very beneficial to do so, if done hastily or if the right company isn't chosen it can have very negetive results. ...more...


Identifiying Maintenance Task's

1/1/05
Maintenance Task's are usually to be broken down into categories, "Preventive" or "Corrective", but for task tracking to be accurately protrayed in terms of costing we need to divide the categories even further into: "Scheduled Preventive", "Unscheduled Preventive", "Scheduled Corrective", "UnScheduled Corrective" and "Emergency Corrective". ...more...

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