MRO Today



MRO Today

February/March 2008 issue of MRO Today

Cover story
Visions of victory
Fitting the radical new Vision into Victory Motorcycles’ production line took a concerted effort from the drawing board forward...

Editorial
Visions of the future

MRO Pro
My g-generation -- Future MRO Pros
Inspiring the next generation of workers takes next-generation methods...

MRO Coach
Green lubrication
“Green” manufacturing initiatives often incur higher operational costs. Not so with lubrication — the greener the better...

Case Studies
Fresh air, dry hands for Dana
Replacing paper towel dispensers in plant restrooms with Xlerator air hand dryers saves this 500-employee facility $14,460 per year in supplies and maintenance...

A model safety program gets safer
How Fluor Hanford defends against electrical accidents...

Saving water, saving dollars
In the face of rapidly depleted fresh water supplies, the industrial sector is learning that reducing water usage and increasing reuse is an essential ingredient of productivity and profitability...

Survey Results
Maintenance Intelligence: Inquiring minds
In record numbers, MRO Today readers tell us what you do, where you work and that yes, you have purchasing authority in your facilities...

Uptime
Battery maintenance
Today’s lead-acid batteries are the best ever made, but battery maintenance practices have advanced even further...

Fun with dry ice
Space aliens! Bigfoot! Mad scientists freezing your head! What’s that? Cryogenics is real? And ideal for maintenance? Well, how about that...

It’s tool time!
Here are some of the most interesting new products we’ve seen so far this season...

Web exclusives listed in this issue
23 steps for starting a rebuilt rotary compressor airend
The airend on your oil flooded, rotary screw compressor is not going to run forever. It will eventually need repairs, and may even need to be replaced with a new or a rebuilt exchange airend...

Grounded to the floor
Major flooring manufacturer grounds and protects milling line — Castell prevents explosions and drive-aways in Class 1, Division 2 Facility...

Supersonic storage
At Corporate Jet Support, the ceiling’s the limit for storage...

E-mail your maintenance questions to thammel@milomediapub.com. We’ll forward it to our friendly industry experts and publish their answers to you. We’ll print as many as we can every issue and add them here to our archives. That should keep Marv here from watching one too many slasher films.

These articles appeared in the February/March 2008 issue of MRO Today magazine. Copyright 2008.

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