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May is a bad month for a chiller to fail. At a large coatings manufacturer in the north-eastern United States, the cooling season was only weeks away..

Deep well pumps are the definition of “out of sight, out of mind”. The motor and pump sit far below ground, submerged in the water they are..

University campuses are full of machines nobody thinks about until they fail. Air handlers, exhaust fans and chilled water pumps keep lecture halls, labs and dormitories comfortable…

The blower at the solvent plant had become everyone’s least favourite machine. It was a 22 kW, 440 V motor running at 1760 rpm and driving a..

It was the night shift that noticed it first. On the roof of a semiconductor fab, one of the cooling tower fans had started making a sound..

Condition monitoring used to live in its own corner of a plant — a standalone laptop a vibration technician carried around once a month, disconnected from everything..

Submersible pumps fail in a particularly frustrating way: by the time anyone notices a problem, the pump is usually already underwater, out of reach, and the only..

Every maintenance manager who has tried to get budget approval for a condition monitoring project has run into the same wall: the finance department wants a number,..

Most condition monitoring programs are architected around a tiering decision that gets made once, early, and rarely revisited: a handful of motors above some horsepower or criticality..

A data center rarely fails because of something dramatic. It fails because a chilled water pump bearing wore out over three months, nobody was tracking it, and..