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11 Summer Maintenance Tips for Your Fleet

As the temperatures begin to rise, it’s time to perform a summer maintenance check on your vehicles. A few minutes with this simple checklist will help you save time and trouble down the road.

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11 Summer Maintenance Tips for Your Fleet

Use Your Power Responsibly

With energy costs continually on the rise, manufacturers are looking not only for ways to reduce the amount of power they use, but how effectively that power is used.

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Use Your Power Responsibly

Swissotel Finds Solution to Inventory Control

When Eric Wylie came aboard as Engineering Director at SwissÔtel in Chicago, he immediately recognized the need for a better inventory management system.

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Swissotel Finds Solution to Inventory Control
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What's Today's Issue? Are you a building engineer? Contractor? Purchasing manager? Maybe today you're all three? When a problem comes up at your facility or jobsite, the question isn't whether it can be resolved, but how quickly. SupplyLink.com is a growing collection of articles and information created for people like you--those in charge of keeping things moving and getting the job done. 

LATEST BLOG POSTS

Is it a Slip or a Trip?
05.02.12
SupplyLink

Do you know the difference between a slip and a trip? Give us your best guess.

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When Is Hot Too Hot?
07.21.11
SupplyLink

Most of the United States is currently dealing with extreme heat conditions that can pose a real threat to worker safety.

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The Vanishing Incandescent Light Bulb
04.04.11
SupplyLink
The incandescent light bulb is slowly being phased out in the U.S. That marvelous invention by Thomas A. Edison has run its course. December 31, 2011 will mark the 132nd anniversary of the day that Edison flipped a switch at his Menlo Park laboratory and turned on the first electric light bulb. The electric light bulb would ultimately replace all gaslight systems. Thus began the age of electric lighting.
 
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OSHA's Top 10 Safety Violations for 2010
12.13.10
SupplyLink

Here's OSHA's list of the top 10 safety violations for 2010.  Once again, scaffolding and fall protection are at the top.

1. Scaffolding  - 9,093 violations - Scaffold accidents most often result from the planking or support giving way, or from the employee slipping or being struck by a falling object.

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It’s Time To Think About Your Motor Energy Usage
12.10.10
SupplyLink
On December 19, 2010, new energy legislation will take effect which impacts the manufacturing of certain industrial motors. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) legislation sets stringent new efficiency standards for a broad range of General Purpose and some Definite Purpose 3-phase motors. Motor designs which do not meet the mandated legislation requirements can no longer be manufactured after December 19, 2010.
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LATEST FORUM THREADS

What Types of Motors can be reversed???
05.04.12
MotorTech Plus

Some motors can run in both directions, CW/CCW and some can not. All Three Phase motors as well as DC motors can run in both directions. Shaded pole motors will usually run in only one direction unless they are mechanically modified by taking the stator out and reversing it if the manufacturer suggests that. Most all of Capacitor Start and Split Phase motors can be reversed. Most all of Permanent Split Capacitor (PSC) motors can be reversed. The nameplate on the motor is always the best place to check to see.

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Winch ratings
04.30.12
Larry

Pulling capacity or the "rated
maximum load" for a winch is determined by the maximum load a winch can pull with only the bottom layer of rope on the drum, an industry standard. Full capacity is retained on the bottom two layers. This rating does not include any friction factors, which will vary according to the
specific applications.

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Dispenser Program
04.30.12
Larry

Dispenser Sublease Information
Note: The goRag®, enMotion®, and Cormatic® towel dispensers, owned by Georgia-Pacific Corporation, are not available for sale, but are subleased to end user customers by Grainger, an
authorized distributor of these products. The Grainger price is therefore a one-time sublease acquisition fee. The sublease requires that only Georgia Pacific goRag®, enMotion®, and Cormatic®
product be used in these dispensers. You will receive your sublease registration form in the mail within 30 days of order placement. The sublease form will also register your goRag®,

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Hydraulic hand pumps
04.30.12
Larry

Hydraulic hand pumps that are rated for 40,000 psi are not rated to be plumed in to system with a hydraulic hose. They are required to be hard piped with appropriate tubing that is rated for 40,000 psi with its connections. These are usually operated for test equipment.

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Single Jacket Fire Hose
04.30.12
Larry

Single jacket fire hose is rated for one time use when fighting a fire. These are hoses that are found mainly on rental properties, and are used to contain a fire by residents to evacuate the building. After such use they should be commissioned and no longer used for fire fighting efforts.

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