Equipment Maintenance, Servicing & Safety

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Maintenance and safety are of great importance in keeping and preserving equipment and the facility in a functional state.

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Maintenance is not only necessary to ensure the reliability of technical structures or productivity of the company, but regular maintenance has an important role in providing safer and healthier working conditions. Lack of maintenance, or inadequate maintenance, can cause serious and deadly accidents or health problems.

The maintenance function is evolving from being after-the-fact, to planned, to predictive, to self-fixing. Developments in operational sensor technologies, combined with advances in information technologies including virtual or augmented reality (VR/AR), cloud-based platforms and analytics, are helping to provide real-time data on performance levels and help to outline predictive or scheduled maintenance without losing equipment efficiency.

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Types of Maintenance

Corrective Maintenance: Corrective maintenance is performed to identify, isolate and rectify faults, so that the failed equipment, machine or asset can be restored to an operational condition within the tolerances or limits established for normal operations.

Preventive Maintenance: Preventive maintenance refers to regular, routine maintenance to help keep equipment up and running, preventing any unplanned downtime and expensive costs from unanticipated equipment failure.

Predictive Maintenance: Predictive maintenance techniques monitor the condition and performance of equipment during normal operation to predict when maintenance should be performed. It reports on the status and operational capacity of the machine by monitoring the values of specific variables and make data-driven decisions.

Shutdown Maintenance: Through shutdown maintenance, the parts known to experience age and use-related degradation are automatically replaced on a set frequency shorter than the mean time between failures. Doing this should prevent unexpected failure and allow for maximum production time.

Periodic Maintenance: Periodic maintenance is maintenance performed on equipment based on a calendar schedule. It consists of a series of primary tasks: data collection, visual inspections, cleaning, lubrication etc.

Safety

It is an essential factor which should be taken into account during all stages of production, such as the design, manufacturing, installation, adjustment, operation, maintenance and final scrapping. Machine, facility and personal safety can be achieved using safety interlock switches, safety signs and clothing respectively. The Machinery Directive exists to force manufacturers to guarantee a minimum safety level for machinery and testing equipment such as multi-meters and thermal imagers. Machines and tools have to conform to the Essential Health and Safety Requirements (EHSRs) listed in the Directive and are, therefore, required to provide a standard minimum level of protection.

No matter what your approach is, Farnell Element14 offers a wide range of maintenance, repair & safety products from many leading brands. Keep your production plant, machinery and safety equipment well maintained with our range of components, tools and equipment. We can help you to minimise the risk, stay compliant and ensure the safety of all your onsite employees.

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Industrial automation

1770 Series Power Quality Analyzers

Capture all power quality variables, high-speed waveforms, transients, and higher frequency harmonics. IEC 61000-4-30 Class A edition 3 compliant and more. Now available with Fluke Premium care plan options.

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Fluke Digital Multimeters

Trusted by more professionals than any other test tool and tested to the extreme. Every Fluke DMM gives you consistent, accurate measurements and reliable performance.

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1000V CAT IV Class A 3-Phase PQ Analyzer

The PowerPad^® model 8345 is a portable 3-phase, Class A Power Quality Analyzer for technicians and engineers to measure, diagnose, and improve power quality in 1, 2, or 3-phase networks.

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Micro-Ohmmeter: Maintenance & Safety Assurance

Model 6240 tests low resistance, detects faults in electrical equipment, ensures quality control and testing, compliance, and enhances safety.

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3M Respiratory Protection

3M offers a vast selection of respiratory protection including disposable respirators, reusable respirators, powered and supplied air respirator systems, SCBAs.

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3M Eye Protection Products

With innovative design and advanced optics and lens coatings 3M offers safety glasses and goggles that provide the best protection without compromising style.

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Harmony Emergency Stop Push Button Switches

The 22 mm (0.866 in.) Harmony XB4 metal, XB5 plastic, and XB7 monolithic-plastic ranges of Emergency stop and Emergency switching off functions combines simplicity of installation with flexibility, robustness, ergonomics, and reliability. Designed to safely control machines and installations.

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Telemecanique Sensors XCS Safety Switches

Preventa XCS Safety interlock switches protect machine operators by stopping the machine when the guard or door opens. Other XCS safety switches protect operators by stopping light industrial machines with quick rundown time.

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Edge Twist Lock

Hubbell’s innovative, patented Twist-Lock® Edge series devices with screwless terminations are the fastest termination devices on the market. Strong steel springs continuously apply pressure to wires, ensuring a strong connection in the most abusive environments.

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Advantage Pin & Sleeve

Switch rated IEC Pin & Sleeve that is approved as disconnecting means for both motor circuits and branch circuits. This is the only pin & sleeve switch-rated connection NOT a proprietary configuration.

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Cable Tie Tools

Panduit’s ergonomic series of hand-operated, tool-controlled tension and cut-off cable tie installation tools are the most preferred hand-operated tools in the industry.

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