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Ask a maintenance team what makes a good condition monitoring system and “accurate date and time” will rarely be at the top of the list. It sounds..

On 5 October 2018, Pump 3 at the water pumping station tripped during start-up and would not run. The station’s capacitor bank was racked out for servicing,..

In a mine, the conveyor is the artery. Ore moves from the crusher to the stockpile to the plant, and if the belt stops, so does everything..

When engineers select a motor, they often add a “safety margin”. A bit more power just in case, for future expansion, or to make sure it never..

Road tunnel jet fans are safety equipment. In normal operation they keep the air moving. In a fire they control smoke. Maintaining them is expensive and disruptive,..

The pump station supplies water to a mid-sized US city. It has seven 350 HP pumps, three of them driven by VFDs. In late 2023, the engineering..

Intermittent warnings are the ones maintenance teams dislike most. A steady alarm points somewhere. An alarm that comes and goes looks like a sensor fault and invites..

Ask any reliability engineer for the single most common root cause of bearing failure and you will often hear the same answer: lubrication. Too little, too much,..

Nobody noticed when the air in the cold rolling mill got a little worse. Fouling is like that. There is no bang, no smoke and no trip…

The process cooling pump at the oil & gas facility had a reputation: it “always sounded a bit rough”. It was driven by a 480 V motor..