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Particle Counting – Deploying the Invisible Filter
This past year Practicing Oil Analysis featured many end-user case studies documenting cost savings from oil analysis. Surprisingly, the majority of these studies describe the partnering of oil analysis with contamination control*.
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Precision Lubrication for the Power Generation Industry
Machinery lubrication is critical to reliability efforts at a power plant. Numerous studies cite poor or ineffective management of the lubrication process as a leading cause of forced plant outages.
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Proactive maintenance targets extending machine life
Equipment maintenance costs represent an unclaimed gold mine of savings opportunities. Yet deep maintenance cost reductions have evaded the efforts of even the most diligent and sophisticated operations. Why? Because there has been a general lack of emphasis on maintenance that corrects root causes, as opposed to responding to the symptoms or results of failure.
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Proactive Maintenance the Cost-Reduction Strategy
The field of maintenance technology going through a revolution of change. Gone are the t days when a machine had a predictable service life, after which it was replaced, continuing the cycle. Today, machinery and equipment can be maintained to achieve useful operating lives many times that attainable just a few years ago.
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Proactive Maintenance, the Newest Buzz Word
The field of maintenance technology is going through a revolution of change. Gone are the days when a machine had a predictable service life, after which it was replaced, continuing the cycle.
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Safety Considerations in Fluid Power Products. Part 1: Design Aspects
With manufacturers expecting over 1,000,000 product-liability suits annually by 1980, more and more emphasis must be placed on safety and failure prevention. Companies with a poor track record, and which deal with ‘”accident prone” equipment, have little choice if they plan to survive the onslaught of an aroused, safety-minded and suit-conscious public. This paper is…
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Safety Considerations in Fluid Power Products. Part 2: Design Aspects
Product safety must be our business-not a sideline or an activity that our trade 01: technical association performs for us. As emphasized in Part 1 of this report, with the everchanging public attitudes, climate of the courts, standards being approved, and edicts by the government; this is no time to “stick our heads in the…
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The Influence Of Marketing on the Design Of Fluid-Power Products
Marketing should play a major role in the design of new fluid power products. The wants, needs and problems of the consumer are many times ignored as important inputs to product design.
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Today’s Oil Detectives Have a New Bag of Tricks
The truth is, oil analysis is detective work, plain and simple. Today’s detectives are empowered with a growing bag of tricks but frankly, only a few of these tricks involve traditional “oil analysis.”
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Your Oil is Talking… But are You Listening?
I suppose we could refer to used oil, when put under the lens of a microscope, as a book waiting to be read. It is loaded with revealing bits of information that tells a pictorial story about the condition of the machine and the oil. Still, for most people, the story cannot be read or…