What Is Infrared Thermography?
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Infrared thermography is the process of using a thermal imager to detect radiation from an object. We'll discuss how infrared thermography works...
sesconsultants52020-04-03
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Pump Reliability
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Increasing the mean time between repair (MTBR) is a universal goal for pump end users. While statistics vary, a reasonable pump MTBR goal for a…
sesconsultants52020-03-27
10 Tips for Compressor Health & Energy Savings
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Lowering power consumption and accurately measuring leaks, among other best practices, can help keep compressors working efficiently...
sesconsultants52020-03-20
Selecting a Pump for Caustic & Corrosive Conditions
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When picking the right pump for chemical applications, there are many factors to consider. True, for many mid-to-large-scale industrial fluid transfer...
sesconsultants52020-03-13
How to Calculate Grease Quantity and Frequency for Bearings
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Arguably the most common activity performed in lubrication is to grease bearings. This involves taking a grease gun filled with grease and pumping it...
sesconsultants52020-03-07
Know the Health of Your Pumps
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Routine checkups, a healthy diet, and regular exercise are the prescriptions for a healthy life. The same prescriptions hold true for healthy pumps...
sesconsultants52020-02-28
Precision Lubrication for Oil Lubricated Process Pumps
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Process pumps are often neglected when it comes to precision lubrication. Many maintenance and reliability professionals focus efforts on larger...
sesconsultants52020-02-21
How Portable Condition Monitoring Improves Maintenance
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has the capacity to reshape plant operations. The IIoT serves to connect the digital and physical worlds through...
sesconsultants52020-02-14
Partnerships for Optimized Machine Reliability
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More than 30 years of machinery studies have reinforced that almost 90 percent of all machinery failure modes occur randomly -making failures of pumps...
sesconsultants52020-02-07
A Practical Approach To Asset Performance Management (APM)
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Have you ever thought about all the many elements of a successful maintenance/reliability initiative? It is the alphabet soup of acronyms. RCA, RCM, FMEA...
sesconsultants52019-10-18
What Is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?
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Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is the premier standard for measuring manufacturing productivity. Read about how to calculate OEE, the six big...
sesconsultants52019-09-16
Machinery Reliability Indicators
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Machinery reliability indicators provides common parameters for measuring the reliability of key types of rotating machinery at all manufacturing locations.
sesconsultants52019-04-01
Maintenance Time Optimization Analysis
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Developing a maintenance model to improve operational efficiency is of critical importance for every successful plant or manufacturing unit.
sesconsultants52018-04-05
Solutions to Common Centrifugal Pump Problems
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When a newly-repaired pump performs poorly, good troubleshooting procedures can help eliminate a number of possibilities—including problems with...
sesconsultants52020-01-15
AI-Based Maintenances Improve Pump Uptime
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Industrie 4.0 and digitalization offer optimization opportunities for operations and maintenance functions. Innovations such as digitalization, artificial..
sesconsultants52020-01-04
5 Ways to Prevent Bearing Failures
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Rolling bearings are precision machine elements found in a wide variety of applications. They are typically very reliable even under the toughest...
sesconsultants52019-12-31
Rotor Rubbing in Pumps
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The rotor-to-stator rub has been an important malfunction in many pumps. The rotor rub could result in serious damages such a shaft failure. The bending...
sesconsultants52019-12-26
The Effects of Oversizing or Under sizing a Pump
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Engineers often worry they are being conservative in their system design. There are many uncertainties in the design process including differences in...
sesconsultants52019-11-13
Pump Troubleshooting Guide Chart
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At pump startup or during operation of the pump, many troubles founds which are disturbing pump normal operation. Here are the common pump troubleshooting..
sesconsultants52019-10-29
Which Pump To Select, ANSI or API?
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Many details need to be considered during the selection process, but it would be helpful to first understand the differences between ANSI and API pumps...
sesconsultants52019-10-26
Proper Pump Selection: Avoid Oversizing Your Pumps
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Proper pump selection is more important than ever, with drastic consequences for maintenance, reliability and efficiency. The selection process...
sesconsultants52019-09-06
2020 Pump Efficiency, DOE Requirements
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A gradual evolution of U.S. efficiency standards for equipment over the last four decades has led to the pump rule going into effect next January...
sesconsultants52019-09-03