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» Advice for Reducing Hydraulic Failures
» Oil Sampling Mistakes to Avoid
» Maintenance Work Backlog? Here's Why.
» 10 Tips for Maintaining Grease Guns and Fittings

Advice for Reducing Hydraulic Failures

In hydraulic reservoirs, baffles are used to prevent fluid just returned to the tank from passing directly back to the pump inlet. For a number of reasons, a longer transit path is considered beneficial: it encourages better heat conduction from the fluid, better contamination and air separation, and better mixing with the bulk fluid. This is usually accomplished by separating the inlet and outline by as long of a flow path as feasible.

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Oil Sampling Mistakes to Avoid

Without reliable sampling methods, oil analysis reports can be misleading and result in unnecessary maintenance actions. In this article, Jim Fitch describes how to get data-rich samples for better oil analysis results.
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Maintenance Work Backlog? Here's Why.

From the book "Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management - Second Edition"

In some companies, emergency and reactive work makes up as much as 50% of the maintenance department's work-allocation each week. If this is the case, then only 280 hours of additional work can be done. In addition, the technicians have routine assignments - lube routes, re-builds, and other routine activities. There are also meetings, absenteeism, vacations, and training.

When all of these factors are considered, the actual hours available to be scheduled might be about 200. If only 200 hours are available to be scheduled, then the backlog is actually 14 weeks, an unacceptable amount. One can only imagine the reaction of the production department when it submits a work order that it expects to be done within two to four weeks and is told it may take as long as three-and-a-half months to complete.

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10 Tips for Maintaining Grease Guns and Fittings

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