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  Air exists in oil exists in one of four states and can have a significant impact on lubricants and machines. With good reason, much has been made of the impact that contaminants such as particles and moisture have on lubrication and asset reliability. In most machines, particle and moisture contamination accounts for as much…

  Change your perspective to move maintenance away from a pure expense and enhance overall safety.  Organizations acknowledge that a safety-first approach to plant operations is invariably underpinned by a robust inspection and maintenance plan. But could they take their investment in the associated technology a step further and understand the return it is yielding…

  The variety of extreme weather that North American facilities can be exposed to comes with a wide range of risks and threats, particularly as the planet continues to see the ongoing effects of climate change. Extreme heat and wildfires are big summer risks but so, too, are floods and flash floods, which can be…

  During lockdown, one thing that many people observed was how noticeably quieter the world was. We’d become used to the background hum of traffic noises, voices, ringing phones, business and industry, and only when it was gone did we realise how quiet, quiet could be.  The World Health Organisation has labelled noise as the…

Imagine this… you are in a kick-off meeting with your project owner, partners, and subcontractors. A vision of project outcomes has been shared and agreed upon. However, there is a lack of alignment on actually how to achieve these process, design, and execution outcomes. With cost, schedule, cultural and technical differences looming over the team,…

Electric vehicles are building market share across the United States in places such as California, Florida, New York, Texas and Washington state. At the same time, the country’s aging electrical grid appears increasingly unable to handle the rising demand for charging services during peak load times. Bidirectional charging through vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology represents at least…