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Facilities Maintenance
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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…
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GHG initiative challenges industry to reduce emissions at Global Energy Summit in Toronto
Toronto – Armstrong Fluid Technology has announced an initiative to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 2 million tons by the year 2022 and issued a challenge to industry participants to set similarly aggressive targets for the same four-year time…
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Address the skills gap by designing the training opportunity from scratch
Roy F. Huetl knows firsthand that the best way to learn something is to do it. It’s a mantra that the York Region Director of Operations, Maintenance and Monitoring, Environmental Services, has revisited many times over his 35 years spent…
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MRO Quiz – How well can you troubleshoot lubrication problems?
Investigating problems related to equipment lubrication issues can be difficult unless the troubleshooter understands two items of critical importance. Firstly, he must fully and completely understand the operation of the machine or associated components and the operating conditions, such as…
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A digital future for maintenance
Connectivity presents unprecedented opportunity. That much was clear after attending Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference in Singapore in October. Siemens and Bentley Systems have formed a technology-software partnership that is expected to accelerate digitalization and boost infrastructure project delivery…
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Canfor Pulp announces Northwood and Taylor Pulp Mill Energy projects
Vancouver – Canfor Pulp Products Inc. announced that it plans to undertake capital projects at its Northwood Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft Pulp mill located in Prince George, British Columbia, and its Bleached Chemi-Thermo Mechanical Pulp mill located in Taylor, BC.…
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Roll-In replacement circuit breakers provide refurbishment options that minimize downtime
Aging electrical power distribution systems often contain legacy switchgear that have reached end-of-life conditions. Preventative maintenance shutdowns can prove difficult and cause concern about not being able to reclose circuit breakers and restore power when the shutdown is complete. With…
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Deep Machine Learning – how smart solutions lower energy costs and boost safety
An integrated refrigeration and controls solutions leader paves the way for energy savings through award-winning analytics implementations.
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Book Review – Physical Asset Management
Reading Dharmen Dhaliah’s book, Physical Asset Management: An Organizational Challenge, can alleviate some of the drudgery associated with figuring out what needs to be done and who needs to be involved in an asset management plan. The book explores how…
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Road Safety at Work Week March 6-10
Richmond, BC – Employers are responsible for the safety of employees when they drive for work regardless of who owns the vehicle they drive. Fleet van or personal sedan, if the vehicle is used for work, it is a workplace and that…
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What is more important: a focus on reliability or focus on maintenance practices?
MRO’s Counterpoint columnists took to the stage at this year’s MainTrain conference, which was held September 19 – 22 in Toronto. The annual conference, organized by the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC), is Canada’s largest maintenance and…
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Elevator company fined after worker falls
Caledon, Ont. – An elevator company pleaded guilty and was fined $80,000 after a worker suffered injuries and was airlifted to hospital for treatment. The incident took place at United Hoist Equipment Ltd.’s office and storage facility located at 106…
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Webinar: The right lubricants drive energy efficiency, savings and productivity
Machinery and Equipment MRO is now accepting registrations for the 2016 Oil & Lube webinar series.
Date: September 8, 2016 2 P.M. EST.
