Plant Services - September 2007 - (Page 69) NEW! A good, slippery coating Oil analysis is yet another important facet of the world of predictive maintenance. As you might be aware, Noria Corp. in Tulsa, Okla., is a major player in that arena, and maintains several Web sites that focus on the topic. As an example of the content available to you, consider “ e Buck Stops Here,” an article by Drew D. Troyer. In it, he notes the frustration some in the maintenance function feel because of an inability to get funding for tribology and oil analysis technologies. Troyer’s main point is that the requester must present the proposal in terms that management understands, which means in terms of money. e article offers some guidelines for expressing The younger people being targeted to get into the business might be clueless about the benefits of asset reliability. maintenance needs in ways that will have a better chance of being taken seriously on Mahogany Row. But the concept would probably work just as well for any of the technologies you need. Go to www.practicingoilanalysis.com and click on “Past Issues” on the left, scroll down to the January/February 2000 issue and look for the article. Another Noria site, www.lube-tips.com, has a large collection of lubricant tips, many of which are submitted by end users. e material isn’t sorted or categorized, so it can be time-consuming to fi nd that pearl of wisdom that solves a specific problem in your plant. You can start searching the posted arcana by clicking on “Archives.” Enjoy. The big picture A good niche Web site explores a single topic in depth, provides everything you want to know readily at hand, and avoids posting extraneous, distracting material that rightly deserves to be ignored. at’s why the asset care Web site operated by Sandy Dunn from Assetivity Pty Ltd., Como, Western Australia, has earned at least one previous mention in this column. As you’d expect, part of it covers predictive maintenance in the form of 114 articles about RCM and PdM. To see the goods, fl y south to www.plant-maintenance.com and click on “Articles.” Ignore the drop-down menu that appears when your cursor covers the word – simply click on it. e PdM articles are listed under the Management heading. Absorbing the content here should keep you busy for quite a while. S .PLANTSERVICES. 69 http://www.coxreels.com http://www.coxreels.com http://www.practicingoilanalysis.com http://www.plant-maintenance.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com
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