Plant Services - September 2007 - (Page 71) can industry humming, will be disappointed if they go to Wikipedia to learn about predictive maintenance. That Web site needs your input. Open the page called http://en.wikipedia. org/wik i/Predictive_maintenance and see for yourself. The explanation is sparse, totally lacking in the rich content we all know should be reflective of industrial maintenance. It’s not in our collective best interest to allow tion, a good thing. Almost as good as best practices, a collection of user-donated maintenance tips might be useful for improving anybody’s maintenance department. Research this month uncovered a collection of blog-like maintenance tips brought to you by Netexpress Inc., Fort Myers, Fla. The Maintenance Talk Web site archives stretch back to February, 2005. If you’re interested is checking it out, send your desk rodent MODERN TECHNOLOGY SHORTENED THIS TRIP FROM TWO WEEKS TO JUST THREE DAYS. It’s not in our collective best interest to allow such paucity of content to continue. such paucity of content to continue. I urge you to make your additions and edits as you see fit. While you’re at it, you might want to investigate Plant Services online energy wiki at our Web site. to http://maintenancetalk.com/blog. php/tipsblog. Then, scroll down below the calendar page on the left and enter the phrase “predictive maintenance” in the search function. This returns a lot of uncategorized entries, some of which are commercial, some from your colleagues. The latter are labeled simply as predictive maintenance tips. One can’t identify the subject matter before opening an entry and it’s not obvious how to respond to an entry. All in all, this probably isn’t the most user-friendly site we’ve seen. Modernization helps everything work better. . . especially your overhead crane. Our crane modernization technology and automation solutions can help you perform similar feats – shorten load handling time, make cranes safer and more reliable, and improve capacity and throughput. If you need to do more with the cranes you already have, crane modernization may be the answer you’re looking for. At Crane Manufacturing & Service we work with customers to modernize older equipment and safeguard the production process. Please call us for a FREE modernization evaluation. It may be just what you need to steer your company around that rocky patch and into calmer waters. Hot tips Another source of information about predictive maintenance is available in the form of a Web log, more commonly known as a blog. In this medium, some author posts commentary or opinion piece, usually only a few hundred words, which is designed to provoke a response or two from the huddled masses in cyberspace. Readers on either side of the author’s argument can then post a response, which leads to the posting of a chain of responses from other readers, which constitutes group communica- Without comment www.flirthermography.com/sitemap.asp www.lmtinfo.com/articles/tree.cfm E-mail Executive Editor Russ Kratowicz, P.E., CMRP, at russk@putman.net. The right part, right now. More resources at www.PlantServices.com/thismonth Thermography – “Infrared in food processing” Explaining ultrasonics – “Sound advice” 4th generation PdM – “Smart accelerometers and wireless interfaces” Lean maintenance – “The skinny on lean maintenance” Oil analysis – “Oil analysis, tribology and other slippery topics” Vibration and alignment – “Measuring your vibes” Case history – “A concrete case for RCM” For more, search www.PlantServices.com using the keywords PdM, RCM and lean. TM CRANE MANUFACTURING & SERVICE 800-272-6363 www.cranemfg.com September 2007 www.PLANTSERVICES.com 71 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_maintenance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_maintenance http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/tipsblog http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/tipsblog http://www.flirthermography.com/sitemap.asp http://www.lmtinfo.com/articles/tree.cfm http://www.PlantServices.com/thismonth http://www.cranemfg.com http://www.cranemfg.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com
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