Oct 3, 2018 | Oil Analysis
When people think about bowling, a few things probably come to mind. Bowling balls and pins, of course. Gutters and ball returns. And maybe beer and fried food, too. What might not come to mind, however, is one of the most important parts of the game: the oil on the...
Aug 23, 2016 | Oil Analysis, Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a broad field of many overlapping technologies, all of which have one common goal: find faults in a machine’s condition before the machine fails. On their own, predictive technologies each have their own strengths. For example, the...
Mar 27, 2013 | Motor Testing, Oil Analysis, Vibration Analysis
The average age of the workforce is causing a paradigm shift as boomers retire. The practice of total productive maintenance (TPM)—where responsibility for maintaining the machine is with the person who runs it—is being reassessed as the need for a skilled...