In my previous blog post, I wrote about the advantages of defining your maintenance and reliability objectives for a piece of hydraulic equipment before you even place an order it. In response to this article, I received the following from one of our members:

“As an engineer for a heavy equipment manufacturer, I have to take exception with your advice … Read more

During a seminar I presented recently, one of the attendees, a maintenance manager for a large open-cut mining operation, mentioned that he was considering upgrading the filtration on their fleet of hydraulic mining shovels – to achieve a higher level of oil cleanliness.

There’s lots of documented evidence to suggest that increasing hydraulic oil cleanliness increases the service life of … Read more

Here’s the scene for an unusual but instructive hydraulic troubleshooting story:

The end of the month was just a few days away when an OEM customer called and advised its hydraulic cylinder manufacturer that the boom extension cylinder on a rough terrain forklift was SQUEALING. This single-stage cylinder was 6″ bore x 3″ rod x 14′ stroke. The OEM was … Read more