Plant Services - May 2008 - (Page 5) Volume 29, Number 5 features 32 41 47 COVER STORY Compress efficiently LUBRICATION Drive down kW per 100 cfm Check the oil What you find can indicate the health of your equipment POWER TRANSMISSION Conveying reliability – link by link LIGHTING Use nine commonsense techniques to keep your chain conveyors moving 53 Light innovation Use these advances in lamps and luminaires to upgrade your lighting efficiency specialists 27 ASSET MANAGER Avoid the rocks 57 WEB HUNTER Steer your CMMS project carefully and you’ll be able to manage the risks Showing you the money 31 TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOx Mining the Web for safety, ergonomics and training resources PlantServices.com NEW! PLANTSERVICES.COM LAUNCHES NEW SKILLTV FORMAT Maintenance Evangelist and Plant Services contributing editor Joel Leonard is taking the crusade against the maintenance crisis to an exciting new level with a new format of the Internet-based TV show called SkillTV. Find out what Joel and his contemporaries are talking about at www.SkillTV.net. Aging electrical systems? 70 ENERGY ExPERT Creative approaches promise to raise reliability Stashing CO2 Making sense of carbon sequestration and offsets columns and departments 7 FROM THE EDITOR The Alignment Knowledge Center on PlantServices.com is a source of precision alignment information for your education and benefit. As you study these materials, you can apply the lessons learned to improve your precision alignment practices. See www.plantservices. com/knowledge_centers/ vibralign/index.html to find out more. WEB EXCLUSIVE: ALIGNMENT KNOWLEDGE CENTER Familiarity breeds content LETTERS • Our American Idols • Preserving the middle class? THE PS FILES 21 22 CRISIS CORNER Insiders, outsiders We are going to need them all. WHAT WORKS • Transformer fire averted in Arkansas • Steam valve overhauled on-site IN THE TRENCHES Is keeping old equipment worth the risk? 9 WEB EXCLUSIVE: THE 2008 CMMS/EAM SOFTWARE REVIEW Contributing Editor David Berger, P.Eng., presents an updated and revised version of his CMMS/EAM software review. The site allows you to compare packages across a comprehensive range of capabilities. You can weight capabilities to reflect their importance in your application to receive a calculated ranking of the software offerings according to your specifications. Visit www.plantservices.com/articles/2008/075.html to read the entire article, or go to www.plantservices.com/CMMS_Review to go directly to the updated CMMS comparison software. 13 60 Them or us Who is to blame for the faults in our trade policy? Smokin’ out the bad guys 15 UP AND RUNNING • Parlez-vous ‘Brain Drain?’ • Siemens announces ‘exiderdome’ U.S. tour • Who’s paying for your PPE? Acme tries to improve employee health and cut its costs at the same time 64 66 69 PRODUCT PICKS MRO MARKETPLACE CLASSIFIEDS 5 May 2008 www.PLANTSERVICES.com http://PlantServices.com http://PLANTSERVICES.COM http://www.SkillTV.net http://PlantServices.com http://www.plantservices.com/knowledge_centers/vibralign/index.html http://www.plantservices.com/knowledge_centers/vibralign/index.html http://www.plantservices.com/articles/2008/075.html http://www.plantservices.com/CMMS_Review http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com
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