Predictive Maintenance Blog

What’s With Bob? – Episode 1
Want to know Bob's Secret? What the guys don't know is that Bob has hired Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc., the premiere provider of Reliability Driven Predictive Maintenance Programs. ATS monitors the equipment at Bob's plant, predicting maintenance and repair needs before breakdown. By...

Non-Traditional Bearing Related Problems – More Common than You Think
Most of us, particularly those of us who tend to be vibration focused, think of rolling element bearing failures from the perspective of the internal rotating components and the surfaces they roll on. Our attention is generally focused on things like inner and outer race defect frequencies, ball...

Vidtorial – Engineers Love Curves
Hey Everybody, Bob Craft here, for Advanced Technology Solutions. We engineers sure do love curves. Now get your minds out of the gutter, this is strictly a professional discussion! For many of us our love affair with curves started in 9th-grade drafting class when we were first introduced to the...