Entries Tagged Maintenance

A study of equipment reliability at an industrial plant found that 40 percent of overall failures of rotating equipment, such as pumps...

Keeping your plant's trucks and power equipment clean can extend their life. But how far do you need to go? With today’s high-tech...

"The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer," says Mike Welke, the biosolids manager and maintenance supervisor at the...

Jim Lehman has been in the wastewater field for more than a decade. But each day the operator at the Carlisle (Pennsylvania)...

Editor's Note: This article is part of a profile on Linda Schick of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, which was published in the June 2015 issue...

At first, the staff at the Richmond (Virginia) Water Treatment Plant was only interested in finding an office pet. But bringing Duck...

Here at the TPO office, which is located in the snow belt of northern Wisconsin, we take pride in our winters. In...

The first snowfall shouldn’t surprise us, and yet often we’re left buried in a pile of lovely white stuff, wondering how the...

Inflow and infiltration, aging equipment and more stringent laboratory standards are just a few of the challenges met by the staff at...

When it comes to piping projects, plant managers often consider a contractor, but this type of work can usually be done in-house...

Although a set of standard operating procedures might be available, the safe and successful response to an emergency depends on maintenance performed...

The EZstrip Cake Pump features a specially designed feed chamber that can easily be disconnected allowing access to the rotating assembly. The...

For Gary Hanson, wastewater is more than flows, lift stations and chemicals. Over the last 38 years, it has been his life’s...

The EZstrip has revolutionized the way in which PC pumps and associated products are Maintain-In-Place (MIP), which reduces a day-long maintenance operation...