INSIGHTS
Practical guidance on industrial maintenance, reliability and plant operations from the TLBS technical team.
Industrial equipment rarely moves from healthy to failed without leaving evidence. Vibration changes. Temperature rises. Lubricant condition deteriorates. Electrical behavior shifts. Pressure, flow…
What if your biggest maintenance problem isn't the equipment—but the way maintenance decisions are being…
Heat is often one of the earliest visible signatures of developing equipment problems. The challenge is knowing when a temperature difference is normal — and when it is evidence of a developing failure.
A rotating machine rarely goes from healthy to failed without changing its behavior first. Vibration is one of the ways that change becomes visible.
The calendar can tell you when maintenance was scheduled. Equipment condition can help tell you when maintenance is actually needed.
A planned shutdown or turnaround is one of the most demanding events in an industrial facility. Normal operations change. Equipment that may run continuously for months or years is taken out of…
In oil production, equipment failure is not always a sudden event. Production losses can begin long before an asset completely…
Predictive maintenance is powerful. But should every industrial asset be…
