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  • 10 Reasons Your Bearings Fail

    10 Reasons Your Bearings Fail

    Bearings support rotating machinery, making them a vital part of all production processes, and crucial to the operation of machines including motors, pumps, and conveyors. They enable the smooth rotation of shafts and other moving parts, thereby reducing friction and wear. Large manufacturers work hard to make sure these components meet the highest quality standards,…

  • 10 Most Common Failures in Electric Motors

    10 Most Common Failures in Electric Motors

    Electric motors are responsible for setting most machines in motion, driving production lines, propelling conveyor belts, and giving mobility to robotic joints, among other purposes. They’re complex and technical assets, and to keep them functioning at peak performance is equivalent to ensuring entire operations run smoothly. The real challenge of industries worldwide is keeping production…

  • The Ultimate Preventive Maintenance Guide

    The Ultimate Preventive Maintenance Guide

    As a maintenance worker, don’t keep avoiding failures when you could prevent even running into them. Also known as preventative maintenance, preventive maintenance is a strategy used by maintenance and reliability teams in industrial plants. This strategy detects, replaces, and repairs components and assets before failures can occur. This, in turn, reduces equipment failures and…

  • What You Should Know About Bearing Maintenance

    What You Should Know About Bearing Maintenance

    Industrial bearings play a crucial role in keeping production lines moving. Despite their size, these mechanical components are essential to the free and unrestricted movement of certain parts and entire machines. That’s why it’s so important that they receive proper maintenance – to have a long operational life. What Are Industrial Bearings? As mentioned above,…

  • The Complete Guide to Condition Monitoring

    The Complete Guide to Condition Monitoring

    In the maintenance industry, all of production depends on assets being able to operate. That being said, many workers are still running into the same common problem: having no way to tell when assets are going to fail, or when they need replacement. What we do know is that asset failures don’t just happen –…

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