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An August preview

Based on real-world success at Owens Corning, Contributing Editor Peter Garforth reveals the next installment in his series on implementing an effective industrial plant energy strategy.

What else is coming in August? Here’s the list:

• Technology for managing roofing systems and tracking their conditionmplement from the bottom
• CMMS can support a maintenance department’s efforts to improve reliability through early detection of impending failures
• Where the future will take compressor controlshe seven deadly wastes
• How to plan and execute effective sampling to diagnose motor failures, determine causes, and increase reliabilityiping for toxic and hazardous gases

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Build your own Tricorder

Mobile devices are changing the way we do business. This piece from Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt, a former software engineer, explains how to put together the ultimate maintenance handheld.

Get your Plant Services magazine in digital format

Our new digital edition offers many advantages over its print brethren. Delivered via e-mail each month, it allows easy and instaneous article recall and facilitates easy jumps to linked Web sites for additional articles, reference materials and resources.

CMMS telemarketer back with more advice

Our sharp-tongued 20-year-old CMMS telemarketer with the pen name “Ben Keith” is back with the third installment of “X: the key to success in CMMS.”  This web-exclusive contribution concentrates on Xamine, the search for the solution. Read it if you dare – you may want to check out the whole series.

Best Practices Awards

Our Best Practices Awards recognize management technique, work process, product and service implementations as expressed in a short application story. The contest is open to anyone with a good story and the right to tell it. Read all the details of the contest.

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Top 10 white paper downloads

PlantServices.com has aggregated more than 70 white papers across numerous topics. See which white papers have been most often downloaded and find out what your peers are reading.

Energy Expert

As rising prices in the energy sector lead to more pressing issues for plants worldwide, Plant Services has added a monthly energy columnist. Read his tips and insight into the energy landscape.

Polls

PlantServices.com likes to keep a finger to the pulse of its readership and offers monthly polls centered on hot topics. Participate and review the responses to this month's topic, and peruse our poll archive to see your peers' thoughts.

Plant Services partners with Globalspec

The power of the leading specialized search engine for technical buyers is now at the fingertips of site visitors thanks to a key partnership. You have to see it to appreciate its breadth, depth and comprehensiveness.

Starting in January 2006, digital versions of Plant Services is available on the web. Check back here every month or click on the Current Issue link on the home page to read the full magazine in digital format.

PlantServices.com Timeless Resources

2006 Readers’ Choice Awards	CMMS/EAM Software Review	Maintenance Crisis Resource Center
Plant Services asked your peers to name the vendors that provide the best value of that combination of performance, reliability, low maintenance and purchase price that adds up to the lowest lifecycle cost -- in each of more than 60 product and service categories. The result is a veritable Who’s Who of qualified suppliers.	Our rigorous review of major computerized maintenance management system packages exposes strengths, weaknesses and industry trends. This month, it’s been updated with nine fresh reviews by noted CMMS guru and contributing editor David Berger, P.Eng.	PlantServices.com has launched the Maintenance Crisis Resource Center. Visit this Web-based community for information, to network and to find support to help mitigate the increasing shortage of qualified professionals.