New Maintenance Mindset: Understanding iT4 technologies

Understanding exactly how the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) emission standards—and the interim Tier 4 (iT4) engines—will impact excavators, wheel loaders, and articulated dump trucks...

Concrete’s Enemy: Water

By Jennifer Crisman Concrete has been used as a strong, durable building material for thousands of years, dating back to many ancient concrete structures that...

Golden Screws

For decades, the general wisdom in approaching manufacturing has been to rely on a “just in time” strategy to ensure component parts are available...

Making Assets Smart and Users Even Smarter

Driving the service industry in 2018 will be an explosive growth in new technologies to gather and use data. The IoT (Internet of Things)...

Geotechnical Innovation

By Michael Close, M.S., P.E. Frequently, an owner agency releases a letting for a bridge replacement or rehabilitation utilizing tried-and-true solutions without knowing that more...

Reconditioned & Ready

DEUTZ Corporation will provide JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation Company, with DEUTZ Xchange remanufactured engines for JLG’s aerial work platform (AWP) reconditioning program. “JLG...
Maintenance Repair and Operational Supplies

Maintenance Repair and Operational Supplies: Part 2

Maintaining proper storage for parts and materials inventory In part one of this series on the proper storage of parts, an explanation of the right...

Taking Care of Your Mechanics Truck

A properly inspected and maintained truck minimizes costly downtime Contractors depend heavily on mechanics trucks to get sidelined equipment back in the dirt and generating...

Synergy Works

By Greg Norris Software for equipment maintenance provides powerful opportunities to cut costs and increase uptime, but success is not as simple as downloading applications...

Automatic Lubrication

Following the successful launch of the Lube Shuttle® manual grease guns by MATO GmbH, Beka-Max of America Inc. introduces three pneumatic MATO products: the...