Rubber expansion joints are used to reduce vibration, lessen sound transmission, and compensate for lateral, torsional, and angular movements.
4 Tips to Sell Maintenance to Top Management
We in maintenance often complain about how hard it is for us to “sell maintenance to top management”.
It’s Not Just the Dust
Drones have great potential in mills; benefits include safety, efficiency, and cost—and they’re fun to use.
A Maintenance Outage and Wood Supply Planning: A Mercer Holz Perspective
Rosenthal am Rennsteig, October 5, 2020 – Mercer’s pulp mills regularly carry out planned and extensive safety inspections, cleaning and maintenance of the vessels and equipment, which requires an overall break in production to ensure we run reliably. This break in production can take several days or weeks.
Bearing Lubrication Best Practices: What to Know and Mistakes to Avoid
Commercial plant equipment constantly undergoes wear-and-tear to maintain the desired production levels of operations. Moving components experience extreme stress, and bearings can begin to degrade.
What happens when Maintenance is required to report to Operations?
Many argue that maintenance should report to operations, creating a decentralized maintenance organizational structure as a means to create a closer relationship and better ownership of equipment. Sounds great, but it doesn't work.
Pulp and cartonboard mill solves bearing failure challenge
Bearing problems in the pulp boiler flue gas recirculation fan motors of a modern, integrated pulp and cartonboard mill were causing productivity problems.
Routine maintenance not so routine for paper mill
TICONDEROGA | International Paper’s Ticonderoga mill will stage its annual maintenance shutdown this fall, a relatively routine procedure under normal circumstances that has become a Gordian Knot of logistical angling in the world of the coronavirus.
Does Operations Know Their Role? Leadership in Maintenance
We know that we need the support of operations in order to reach top-notch reliability in our plants. Does your operations manager know exactly what your expectations are? Have you identified, communicated and agreed upon exactly what you need operations to do?
Solving wound roll interleaving on an older winder, a case study
With a watchful eye, the operator studied the 14-roll set on the No. 5 winder. Something was wrong. By the way they were running, the rolls were either stuck together or interwoven. This could mean good news or bad news.
Dryden Mill Conducts Safe Maintenance Outage During Pandemic
A scheduled maintenance outage is a critical part of any mill’s operation. The downtime gives employees an opportunity to complete necessary maintenance that isn’t possible during normal operations, and it ensures the mill continues to run safely and efficiently. It’s also important to the community.
NSK TL bearings double service life in papermaking machinery
NSK spherical roller bearings with TL technology are being increasingly adopted in the papermaking industry as more machinery manufacturers and paper mills seek to maximise operating life and uptime.
Benefits of Oil Flow Monitoring Systems
Process industries such as pulp & paper use circulating oil lubrication systems to support long-term performance of equipment.
Importance of Correct Desuperheater Selection
Not all desuperheaters are made equal. Desuperheaters come in various types and are selected based on application. A desuperheater’s job is quite simple – spray water into the superheated steam supply line to cool it down – this simplicity can relegate its application selection and the wrong type of desuperheater can be applied leading to a big headache once in operation.
Adapting Instrumentation to Challenging Operating Conditions
THE CHALLENGE: keep processes running smoothly in harsh operating environments.
Maintenance Cost and Estimated Replacement Value
Yesterday you were a happy camper. Today you are told your Maintenance Cost (MC) as a percent of your Estimated Replacement Value (ERV) is 4.9%. According to Consulting, Inc. and your corporate management 4.9% is way too high.
Maintenance of Kotkamills Oy benefiting from 3D plant model and Virtual Reality, Kotka, Finland
The use of 3D design, integration of design models into one plant model, and Virtual Reality, benefit investment projects. But how can the plant model be effectively utilised after the project? How is it ensured that it remains up to date? The maintenance of Kotkamills Oy shows the way.
Long-Term or Short-Term Results: Where Should Reliability and Maintenance Managers Focus their Efforts?
I recently visited a plant in South America for an assessment.
6 Ways to Improve Electric Motor Lubrication for Better Bearing Reliability
As the “life blood” of your plant’s operation, electric motors require special lubrication considerations. The theoretical design life of an electric motor is 20 years or more.
Improving recovery boiler cooling and washing practices
In many cases the length of a mill outage is set by the time needed for recovery boiler cooling, washing, inspections and repairs.
Stop Swapping Your Pumps and Start Testing Them Instead
Anybody have two pumps that are installed in parallel so that if one fails you can swap to the other pump with little or no consequence to operations?
What Constitutes World-Class Reliability and Maintenance? (part 1)
I have received many calls asking, "How can you tell if an organization is a world class reliability and maintenance organization or not?"