How Peterson Predictive Maintenance can save your money…and your ass
Peterson Predictive Maintenance. That’s right. Get used to hearing about them because these folks are on a national quest to save as many asses as they can. Indulge me for a moment and I’ll be happy to explain. Or you can check out more information about these high-tech predictive maintenance gurus here.
Let’s just say that you work in a manufacturing facility, distillation plant, or other medium to large scale industrial complex. You’ve got all kinds of motors, pumps, switch boxes, fuses, relays, etc. in there, right? And naturally anything that has moving parts or electricity running through it has the potential to break down to some extent if not the complete kaflooey.
Now how do you suppose regular Joe’s and Josephine’s like us would go about trying to tell if one of these pieces of equipment were going on the fritz and about to fail (i.e. kaflooey)? Why, we’d sit on it of course!
Okay, not really. But our natural instincts are most often to examine that equipment with the most basic diagnostic tools available… ourselves. It’s fairly common for a person to put their hand on orlean in close to listen to a piece of questionable equipment. Certainly more sensitive than using one’s Southern hemisphere, but far from the best idea to determine potential failure.
So, Joe rolls up his sleeve and gingerly places his hand on the housing for the large electrical motor he’s concerned about. And putting a damper on Joe’s day and that evening’s card game are the second degree burns he gets for his trouble.
Or Joe (this poor guy) leans in to listen to the main switch box for the plant before he opens it, figuring he’d be able to hear if there was anything abnormal inside. That night Joe’s explaining to his wife where his eyebrows and half of his ballcap went because of the flash that came from an arcing fuse inside there.
Short and sweet, here’s the point, folks. Peterson Predictive Maintenance uses a combination of two state-of-the-art technologies, Infrared Thermal Imaging and Ultrasound Detection, to accomplish some amazing things that can save your business an absurd amount of money…and save your rump, too.
They can tell you when a motor, electrical switch gear, or anything else, is hotter than it should be without touching it (even from 100ft away). They can hear dangerous arcing caused by loose connections without even getting close to it. They can see through concrete to detect leaks in buried pipelines. They can detect compressed air or gas leaks at a distance and then target them with pinpoint accuracy. Because of their knowledge and experience, the list of uses for their services goes on and on.
But you don’t have to take if from me. I’m guilty of having used the human thermometer, too. Go and check out www.petersonpredict.com and see what I’m talking about. There are many examples there and much better explanations of the services they provide. It’s worth it. After all, the ass that you save may be your own.
