HDD tooling

5 Signs Your HDD Tooling Needs to Be Replaced

Your HDD operation is only as strong as the tools in your shed. One broken piece in a drill string can stall your job...
Inventory

What to stock? What to order?

When it comes to inventory, one of the questions often heard is, “What parts should we keep on-hand versus direct buy?” There are no...

Right Part, Right Time: Part 3 of 3

Storeroom efficiency netted positive results By Corey Crable In part one and two of this article, Superior Paving made the decision to improve its asset management...

Changing the Way You Change Your Oil

Conducting routine maintenance on your equipment’s engine can sometimes be a cumbersome ordeal. And yet we know that frequent maintenance is essential to the...

Efficient Operation

As operations begin to slow down in the fall, it’s a great time to reevaluate maintenance and training procedures to ensure optimum plant efficiency...

The Good Life

Like the Sage investment advice, “buy low, sell high,” crawler excavators have a greater return on investment when a highly productive lifecycle is paired...

Greasing Program

By Preston Ingalls Equipment has rotating and reciprocating movement subject to friction. To minimize that friction and wear, grease is applied on a routine basis....

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...

Out From Behind the Eight Ball

Back in 1946, Nickolas Savko and his wife Gilda started their business in Columbus, Ohio, with a single pickup truck and a few employees....

Tire Management: Maintaining and Protecting Your Investment

By Eric Matson Tires may seem like an afterthought in fleet management, but they are highly engineered products that serve as critical contributors to equipment...