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2005/May
Author:MT Staff
 have been reading a great deal about volunteerism as the U.S. version of National Volunteer Week has just passed. The 2005 theme, “Inspire by Example,” truly reflects the power volunteers have to inspire the people they help, as well as to...
Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 1720 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/May
Author:MT Staff
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein was in the midst of an extraordinary run of paradigm-busting theories. In six months, he published five that would change dramatically what we thought we knew about the universe. Einstein’s accomplishments...
Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 1550 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/May
Author:MT Staff
Too many times, we take a supervisory position and make it unidirectional. I am not aware of any company that assigns job titles and descriptions to supervisors instructing them to just tell people who, what, when, where, how, and why to do...
Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 1488 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/June
Author:MT Staff
Predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques are commonly used on motors and drives. But how often is the power to the equipment inspected? Adding basic power quality measurements to equipment maintenance procedures can head off unexpected failures in...
Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 1652 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/June
Author:MT Staff
You have probably heard about blogs (weblogs) by now. For example, MaintenanceTalk.com features nine different maintenance-related blogs by various authors, including a terrific motor blog series by Howard Penrose, Ph.D. More than likely you have...
Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 2214 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/June
Author:MT Staff
Keeping an eye on the Internet is an enjoyable perk of my job as editor. One of the gurus I watch is Jakob Nielsen, an expert in the usability of user interfaces to software applications and Web sites. The title of one of his recent newsletters,...
Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 1547 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/June
Author:MT Staff
Our vocational-technical education infrastructure has been decimated over the past 30 years. The basic skills and knowledge for maintaining our industrial machinery and equipment are in critically short supply. This shortage is having a...
Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 2050 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/July
Author:MT Staff
Many manufacturing plants employ compressed air systems in one capacity or another, and, for the most part, these systems provide similar output. While all compressed air might be the same, the engineering of that air is not. The needs of a...
Friday, 01 July 2005 | 2714 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/July
Author:MT Staff
As I got back into the driver’s seat having just spent more than $50 to fill up my SUV, I heard an interesting NPR www.npr.org news story on the coming hydrogen economy that made me want to learn more about the viability of hydrogen as a...
Friday, 01 July 2005 | 1524 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more
2005/August
Author:MT Staff
Plant asset management (PAM), the top-level view of reliability and maintenance, is comprised of many advanced maintenance technologies and systems. A PAM system is fed by several information streams, including those from the predictive maintenance...
Monday, 01 August 2005 | 1776 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

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