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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grease selection is often an overlooked variable when it comes to keeping construction equipment running reliably under the harshest conditions. Yet for teams responsible for maximizing uptime and ...

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 ...

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 ...