Everyone is or has been part of a team at some point in time. It could be at your place of work, a sports team, community fundraiser, or club of some kind. The individuals on those teams had one common goal they were trying to accomplish together – to win. Teamwork is something I have…
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The process of reusing and recycling materials such as plastic and cardboard is nothing new. Businesses and consumers have been recycling for decades to help reduce carbon footprints. The bigger change is factories have been popping up that specialize in manufacturing raw materials from previously unusable material, especially materials that are difficult for the average…
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Compressed air systems are everywhere in manufacturing — transportation air brakes, inflatable buildings, and even pipe organs. When pneumatic systems fail, workers can suffer injuries and business leaders can lose money and productive time finding their causes and repairing or replacing them. If your pneumatic system isn’t operating well or has quit working altogether, follow…
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One of the most misunderstood and therefore naturally misdiagnosed failure modes is electrical noise. Often times we’ll see customers and other service centers call any unexplained failure of single board components a “noise” related failure. This is especially the case when there is not a clear path of circuit damage that leads to an input,…
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin was right. Manufacturing equipment maintenance and prevention are usually less expensive than repair or replacement. As a maintenance manager, you must determine whether to schedule preventive maintenance, repair, or replace each machine. Plant managers depend on reliability. It’s the hum that drives…
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The manufacturing industry has never been more competitive. Sometimes, the best way to maintain profitability is to make smarter decisions around the plant. Save money at your production site by following these suggestions from industry experts: Work closely with suppliers Your suppliers need business to remain operational. Like you, they prefer long-term relationships that provide…
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How can you fully load and function test a repaired Siemens Simovert MasterDrive with the Motor? You will need a Custom Engineered Test Stand! Our test stand featured in the video below will allow us to fully load and test MasterDrives and Motors whether they have incremental or absolute encoders or a resolver. Siemens Simovert…
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When you think of manufactured houses, what comes to mind? Mobile homes? The future of manufactured homes could be 3D-printing in concrete! While there have been many excellent examples of concrete printing, including a castle and individual components like structural beams, the game changer could be a company in Russia that printed an entire residential…
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First, what is corrosion? Corrosion is a natural process where unstable materials (such as metals) are gradually destroyed (and thus made more stable) by chemical reaction. The most common of which is rusting, where iron and iron alloys are broken down by exposure to mixture of oxygen and moisture. In the service center we are…
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Only 45% of Americans report job satisfaction. This figure is down from 1987’s 61.1%. Why should this matter to you? Employee happiness is linked to productivity. So, as a plant or maintenance supervisor, how can you best utilize this information to increase company productivity? Maintain an open dialogue Employees require more than an “open door…
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