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Volume 29, Number 2 features 32 45 COVER STORY Best practices awards LubRiCanTS Your picks of the year’s leading applications A slick success story mOTORS Nine tips for making your automated lubrication system world-class 48 Reliable torque COmpRESSORS Knowing about motor failure modes can help you avoid unnecessary maintenance costs 52 Before you call for help These five fixes will let you get the most from an air audit specialists 27 aSSET managER Why Six Sigma? 57 WEb hunTER Because three isn’t enough. Maintenance departments can benefit from Six Sigma programs Exploiting intellectual capital Use knowledge management to institute what you’re doing well 31 TEChnOLOgY TOOLbOx Ensuring a calm response 74 EnERgY ExpERT Crisis management benefits from high technology Energy, climate and food PlantServices.com new! Reliability matteRS blog columns and departments Food processing plants have extra reasons to strategize energy web excluSive: Reduce tuRnoveR, incReaSe PRofitS plantServices.com Reliability Expert Daryl Mather offers up his expertise on improving your plant maintenance operations. Want to create a leaner, more efficient organization and reap the benefits? Visit Mather’s new “Reliability Matters” blog at www.plantservices.com/art_of_change and be the first to post your comments on these topics and more: • Changing technology • Changes to the maintenance environment • Careers and the challenges we are facing • Changing the way people think • Implementation Contributing Editor Tom Moriarty explains what it takes to attract and keep qualified workers, and how employee retention rates affect companies’ profitability. www.PlantServices.com/articles/2007/247.html 7 FROm ThE EDiTOR Change agent 21 CRiSiS CORnER One plant’s path to proactive maintenance Tune in 9 LETTERS Army Corps is bureaucratic nightmare • We need engineers – male and female ThE pS FiLES SkillTV brings crusade against maintenance crisis to new level 23 WhaT WORKS New plant learns pump tricks • Coated roof keeps cool 11 Sharing leads to savings Cooperative model for managing maintenance inventories can reduce costs 61 in ThE TREnChES The Good Samaritan fallacy wHite PaPeR: maKing today’S Pneumatic cylindeRS woRK effectively 13 This paper examines the primary environmental variables that affect the function of a seal, including thermal and media changes, times, hardware motion, fluid flow and pressure, as well as assembly processes. www.PlantServices.com/whitepapers/2008/002.html up anD Running Ultrasound World • Maintenance Evangelist joins council • MIT and ABB create partnership • Facility managers to be made at NIU Acme demonstrates its animosity for someone who was only trying to help 67 72 73 pRODuCT piCKS CLaSSiFiEDS FaST FaCTS February 2008 www.PLANTSERVICES.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com http://PlantServices.com http://www.plantservices.com/art_of_change http://www.PlantServices.com/articles/2007/247.html http://www.PlantServices.com/whitepapers/2008/002.html http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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Plant Services - February 2008 Contents From the Editor Letters The PS Files Up and Running Crisis Corner What Works Asset Manager: Why Six Sigma? Technology Toolbox: Ensuring a Calm Response Cover Story: Best Practices Awards Lubricants: A Slick Success Story Motors: Reliable Torque Compressors: Before You Call for Help Web Hunter: Exploiting Intellectual Capital In the Trenches Product Picks Classifieds Fast Facts Energy Expert: Energy, Climate and Food

Plant Services - February 2008

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