What Is Preventive Maintenance and Why It Matters
Preventive maintenance is a planned, scheduled approach to inspecting, servicing and replacing equipment components before they fail, designed to reduce unplanned downtime and extend asset life. The National Audit Office identified a minimum UK government estate...
Pulsation Dampening in Hydraulics: A Practical Guide
The operator feels it before the fault code appears. A telehandler's steering wheel starts to buzz as engine speed rises, the hydraulic hoses chatter against their clamps, and the pressure gauge needle refuses to settle. On a factory floor, a press may bang on...
Sustainability Practices for Hydraulic Systems That Work
A maintenance engineer arrives at a Yorkshire plant and finds a hydraulic power pack running hot, a pump shaft seal weeping, and a system using roughly 30 litres of ISO VG 46 fluid every quarter. Production still runs, so the fault has been treated as routine...
Gearbox Motors: A Practical Guide to Selection and Use
A conveyor on a Midlands food-production line starts tripping whenever the product load rises. The motor nameplate appears adequate, yet the shaft slows, the gearbox runs hot and the maintenance team is called back to the same fault. The problem may not be a defective...
Mobile Plant Maintenance: Essential Tips for 2026
In the UK, one in three workplace deaths was attributed to unsafe maintenance in 2009/2010 under Northern Ireland safety guidance, a reminder that servicing is a control for life-critical risk, not an administrative chore. The danger is particularly clear around...
10-Step Preventive Maintenance Checklist for Hydraulics
A hydraulic system can look clean, sound normal and still be moving towards failure. That's why a preventive maintenance checklist matters. It turns scattered visual checks into a repeatable programme that technicians can execute, review and improve across pumps,...
Hydraulic Pressure Gauge Calibration: A Practical UK Guide
A boom on a mobile machine is refusing to reach its working pressure. The operator says the pump is tired, the maintenance team suspects a relief-valve problem, and the gauge appears to support both conclusions. It reads slightly low, but nobody knows whether the...
Digital Displacement Pump Guide to Efficiency and Control
A mobile machine can spend much of its working day alternating between heavy loading, precise movement and near-idle running. A conventional hydraulic circuit may still drive the pump at a level suited to the highest demand, then discard surplus energy across valves...