Category: downtime
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Q-PAC Showcases 48-Hour Quick Build to End HVAC Downtime
Q-PAC, a leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced commercial HVAC fan systems, highlights its 48-Hour Quick Build program, an industry-first service that ships the ready-to-install Q-PAC Multimotor Plenum Fan (MPF) in as little as two days. The program is designed to eliminate costly downtime caused by fan failures and offers unmatched speed, reliability, and precision…
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Ensuring Power Plant Readiness with VpCI® Preservation
Power plant chimneys spewing rust. Heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) coughing out corrosion dust. Rusty replacement valves that cannot be installed. These are all signs of insufficient preservation leading to unexpected power plant downtime. With the price of lost revenue adding up quickly at an estimated several hundred thousand dollars an hour, an effective preservation…
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How Equipment Downtime Disrupts Construction Schedules
Commercial construction depends on rhythm. Materials arrive on time, crews rotate in sequence, and machines do the heavy lifting that keeps everything on track. But when a single piece of equipment stops working, that rhythm breaks. Crews wait, schedules slide, and costs start piling up. Towering cranes and heavy-duty machines might symbolize progress, but when…
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Waites Helps Owens Corning Avoid $11M in Potential Losses
When Owens Corning’s ball mill began showing signs of failure at its Tessenderlo Plant, Waites’ AI-powered preventive maintenance system detected the issue before a catastrophic breakdown. The system saved over $11 million in potential production losses, repair costs, and downtime by preventing an unplanned shutdown.This success underscores the power of AI-driven predictive maintenance in safeguarding…
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From Reactive to Predictive: Smarter HVAC Maintenance
In the world of HVAC, maintenance is no longer just about fixing what’s broken — it’s about predicting what will break before it does. As buildings become smarter and more reliant on digital systems, maintenance strategies are evolving too. We’re seeing a major shift from traditional reactive maintenance toward predictive and condition-based maintenance models that…