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Guidelines for Proper Belt Installation including Sheave Pulley Alignment
Belts are a critical part of the design and function of belt-driven equipment. The majority of belts never reach their intended design life due to improper selection, storage, and installation...
- Trent Phillips
- Novelis
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Purchasing Gear Lubricants: Be Careful When Playing the Numbers Game
As the old saying goes, “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.” This is not to suggest that gear lubricant sales representatives are liars, but rather that too often neither the sales rep nor the purchaser completely understands what the numbers on a technical sheet or price list really mean...
- John Sander
- Lubrication Engineers
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Reducing Arc Flash Risks with Electrical Maintenance Safety Devices
Electrical accidents, such as arc flashes, happen daily; however, there are ways companies and individuals can reduce the occurrence of these accidents and protect everybody concerned from the physical, financial, and statutory consequences...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Two Minute Tips
Precision Maintenance: Why do it? Alignment and Balancing Procedures
Why is precision maintenance so important? The reasons are clear...
- Alan Luedeking
- LUDECA
Case Studies and Stories
Deep Well Vertical Pump Analysis using Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA)
There are many advantages that vertical pumps provide over horizontally mounted pumps and when they operate properly they generally provide many years of reliable, maintenance free operation. However, in almost any plant with a large inventory of vertical pumps they will have one or more of these pumps that are considered “bad actors”...
