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Let risk and your equipment determine your maintenance strategy

Let risk and your equipment determine your maintenance strategy

By Jeff Shiver • on June 10, 2009

When I attend conferences and workshops and read articles on maintenance and reliability, more and more I hear people touting that preventive maintenance is more costly and not the right approach. When we talk about preventive maintenance, we are primarily talking about time-based inspections, but it

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Keep maintenance simple: Use senses and sensibility

Keep maintenance simple: Use senses and sensibility

By Robert Apelgren • on June 8, 2009

What good is it to have advanced maintenance techniques if they have no real benefit over simple basic maintenance? Now I am not saying go and throw away all of your fancy toys. What I am saying is that you don’t have to have advanced tools for every maintenance task. I have seen many maintenance

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