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Without proper protection, exposure to noise can cause various ear conditions, including deafness and tinnitus, as well as associated health problems such as insomnia. Many of these conditions are entirely preventable, but incurable once they have arisen.
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But it was substandard rivets that popped out when The Titanic hit the iceberg, allowing water into the watertight compartments. It was an O-ring not designed to cope with low temperatures which failed, when Space Shuttle Challenger launched on an unusually cold morning – leading to an explosion and a $5.5 billion loss. And who knows how many times saving pennies on a hose clip has cost thousands of pounds in downtime, labour costs and lost production when it fails?
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What’s the difference between single screw and twin screw extruders? Twin screw extruders have twice as much chance of screwing up. All it takes is over-feeding or foreign body ingress and at best you have an extruder jam on your hands. At worst, you have damaged screws or a damaged gearbox. Unless, that is, you’ve fitted the Rexnord XG Series Autogard Torque Limiter.
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When a gasket fails, the temptation is to replace it as quickly as possible to get your asset back up and running. But taking time and care to prepare, calculate required torque, and tighten correctly will help to prevent repeat gasket failure due to incorrect installation.
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Calculating potential cost savings from replacing an existing drive system can be a bit hit and miss. Should you believe what the sales engineer tells you? Should you trust your experience and instincts? Or should you use the “Conti Professional” energy cost calculator?
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Data security has been in the news a lot recently, with more than one million UK Facebook users having had their data ‘shared’ with Cambridge Analytica, which then went on to use it for various illicit political purposes.
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Refurbishment is a highly cost-effective method of maintaining the productivity and optimising the operation of your assets. In almost all cases, across most types of assets, in almost all industry sectors, the benefits easily outweigh the costs. But we’re going to consider the situation specifically in the water and wastewater sector.
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Lost production, unplanned maintenance, lubricant disposal, asset devaluation, and potential health and safety issues. Sometimes, these problems and their associated costs can all be traced back to one cause: bearing failure. The NSK Added Value Asset Improvement Programme (AIP), can help you to choose the right bearing with the right specification, to minimise bearing failure, optimise productivity, and reduce costs.
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There’s been a great deal of talk lately about the risk to health from traffic fumes. Unfortunately there’s not much you can do about that when you’re out and about. But the particulates which cause the problems are also found where you work. That’s why you almost certainly have air filters installed within your industrial premises. The problem is, they may not be as effective as you hope.
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You know that a thermography camera, in the hands of an experienced operator, is a powerful tool in the condition monitoring armoury. However, there’s always a case for exploring new areas for its use, as an ERIKS conditioning monitoring technician recently proved.
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