For most manufacturers, machine downtime can cost thousands or even millions of dollars. Small investments in preventive maintenance, however, can prevent downtime and pay for themselves many times ...

One of the key aspects of fleet maintenance that is often overlooked yet plays a critical role in the performance and longevity of your vehicles is proper lubrication, specifically greasing and engine ...

Whether two greases are compatible will depend on the thickener type, base fluid and the resulting grease properties after the two grease types have been sufficiently mixed The decision to make a ...

As equipment costs continue to rise — now more than 30% higher than pre-COVID levels, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors — construction companies are reevaluating how to protect and ...

Lubrication media have for some time been seen as a necessary evil. At the very least, the need to re-lube has added a level of complexity to system design. Allowances must be made for lubricant ...

Maintaining mission-critical winches, windlasses and cranes: the four must-have lubrication steps that all operators need to keep gears going. In the marine industry, winches, windlasses and cranes ...

The wheels of industry turn on bearings, so why do the wheels often vibrate, clatter, squeak, drag, and overheat? Bearings can fail for a lot of reasons. Most failures (as shown in Figure 1) are ...

Everything we said about Maxima Waterproof Grease (review) is ditto here. The only reason we decided to try a couple of types of grease is to compare them to the Elf Moto Chain Paste (review), a ...