I've received this email inviting to become a CoP champion for Condition Based Maintenance. I think this happened due to my conversation with Wins Bernal. My honest thoughts about this: I don't think I am worthy of this position, where I am now. I may be
I just got back from San Francisco and had this waiting for me. I have been thinking about this for over a year and am thankful that it wasn't as expensive as I thought. When Howard Penrose said that it would be roughly under $10K, I had to
One day I heard a loud roar when leaving the B2 garage. I walked down and found out that it was the pump. The pump pushes water
We had a FLUKE representative come in to show us Laser Alignment and Vibration techniques. He had a Preftechnik Vib3 and I was impressed. I would like one in the future. For 4B he measured the drive end of the motor and there was a high peak on 1X. I
Looking for another place has been an interesting challenge. How do you leave graciously, evaluating what your true skills are, are those skills on your resume truly skills that can be replicated in another organization, etc. Even updating my Linkedin and resume has been a consumption of time--I had
I realized that if you want to have an in-depth learning of Heat Transfer, one should study an HCAC system. I suppose it doesn't matter if it is an industrial scale system or an ACU in your home. Both in the end work within the principles of
We installed in January a 5.85kW hybrid system with (2) 100Ah/ 48V batteries. Now that I think about it, the number of modules charging the batteries is a bit inadequate but it can't be helped due to lack of roof space. And to think even further, I
Starting Nov we were contracted with inspecting 120 stores. The first 20 stores were inspected with Choy and myself and the other 40 by me and Bop. Through our experience for each store we've continued to refine our techniques and data gathering. Interesting Finds This is one instance
If you go up a cooling tower, its best to not go alone. There are 6 cooling towers. Cooling Tower #1 is redudancy and Cooling Tower 6 had a blade that failed due to unbalance. So 4 cooling towers are in operations all the time. We had a discussion to
Just got this in the mail recently. In order to understand criticality rankings, its good to get a good grasp on Reliability as a whole. In the next couple of years I need to have a strong base on all of these fields: 1. Thermography 2. Vibration 3. Ultrasound (All