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Facilities Maintenance
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How Far in Advance Should You Schedule Maintenance?
How far in advance should you schedule maintenance? New things go into the backlog constantly, so, hopefully as early as possible; however, a plant can only schedule as much work as it can do. There are multiple schedules in maintenance,…
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Maintenance Strategy
How to develop and manage a maintenance strategy. MRO recently had the opportunity to speak with Gilberto Rodriguez Ledezma, Maintenance Manager at Corpus Christi Polymers LLC, about how to develop and manage a maintenance strategy at a plant. Ledezma presented…
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Electric Vehicles and Charging Stations
Is your facility and its electrical infrastructure prepared? Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming an increasingly popular mode of transportation amongst Canadian drivers. With government incentives (in some provinces and federally), consumers have been able to offset cost premiums associated with…
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International Maintenance Management Professional Program Now Available in French
PEMAC and Institut technologique de maintenance industrielle (ITMI) have launched the Maintenance Management Professional (MMP/PGM) certificate program for professionals in French. The MMP/PGM certificate program, designed by PEMAC, focuses on tools, techniques, strategies and skills necessary for effective management of a…
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Automated Process Helps Products Move
Distributor uses a collection of systems combined with best practices to ensure it minimizes downtime. What do a wire guide system, a computerized maintenance management system, and a continuously moving conveyor system have in common? These are the advanced systems…
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Chornobyl’s radioactive dust shelter unveiled
KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday inaugurated a giant structure built to confine radioactive debris at the nuclear reactor that exploded in Chornobyl in 1986. The confinement structure for the Chornobyl nuclear power plant’s Reactor No. 4…
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Maximum Uptime
Honda of Canada Manufacturing uses preventative and predictive maintenance to ensure production keeps moving. Back in 1986, Honda Motor Company became the first Japanese automotive manufacturer to build a production plant in Canada, creating Honda of Canada Manufacturing (HCM). The…
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Crane collapses during storm in Dallas, killing 1 woman
DALLAS (AP) – A construction crane buffeted by high winds during a storm collapsed on a Dallas apartment building Sunday, killing one woman in the building and injuring at least six more, two of them critically, a fire official said.…
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System for picking N.S. bridge repairs and replacements too loose:auditor
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia is doing an inadequate job choosing which of its aging bridges are most urgently in need of repair or replacement, the province’s auditor general says. In an audit report released Tuesday, Michael Pickup found the Transportation…
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No Time to Lose When a Power Transformer Fails
Fast action can save manufacturers ‘thousands’ when a power transformer failure stops production in its tracks. Silence… The sound no manufacturing general manager wants to hear. When a power transformer that supplies a plant goes bust, everything comes to a…
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5 Ways to Optimize Industrial Rotating Equipment Performance
With industrial operations continually striving to maximize the output and reliability of machinery and production processes, the performance of rotating equipment is critical as a contributing factor. Implementing best practices offers a practical path forward. Among best practices, accurate shaft…
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Education and Networking Highlight Reliable Plant 2019
Reliable Plant 2019 Conference and Exhibition brought North American maintenance and reliability professionals to the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland for keynotes, learning sessions, and exhibition. By far the largest part of the conference was the learning sessions, which allowed…
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Should I Fret About Fretting Corrosion?
Fretting corrosion is often seen on external bearing surfaces (bore, outer diameter surfaces, and side faces) and the degree of fretting corrosion can vary. As a user should I “fret” about “fretting corrosion”? First, what is fretting corrosion? It is…
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Condition Monitoring
Condition Monitoring is a term referring to the systematic process of data collection for evaluation of asset performance, reliability, and maintenance needs with the purpose of planning repair works in advance functional failures occur. Its main purpose is potential failures…
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Food and Beverage Industry Front and Centre at Convenience U CARWACS show
The 16th annual Convenience U CARWACS show was recently held at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto, Ontario. The show is touted as Canada’s largest convenience, gas, and wash industry event. While the main part of the show is the…
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Causing a Fracas
What it takes to manage a failure reporting analysis and corrective action system. As a lifetime reliability geek, I am a firm believer in creating continuous improvement loops. Once an organization has attained stability and control of its assets and…
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Planning Work
Planners must plan enough work to allow scheduling to succeed. A vital part of maintenance productivity is filling weekly schedules with planned work. However, many times a plant simply does not have enough planned work to fill the schedules. The…
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Mission Critical – Emergency Power Upgrades
TELUS completes an integrated project to build a new standby generation plant at a mission critical network facility. As one of Canada’s leading telecommunications companies, TELUS has a multitude of network buildings located throughout Canada. Network buildings provide a number…
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Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas Conference and Exhibition a Success
The two-day Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas Conference and Exhibition, was held recently. The conference offered workshops on a variety of topics, and Speakers’ Corner presentations. “We wanted to get people out of their comfort zones,” said Rodney Roth, Senior Vice…
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In alignment: Troubleshooting rotating equipment alignment problems
Misalignment of machine shaft centrelines cause up to 50 per cent of machine vibration problems and are the result of two common conditions. Parallel offset misalignment is a condition where the centrelines of the two shafts do not meet, whereas…
