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Setting planned and intelligent filter maintenance programs can reduce downtime, increase efficiency and usher your hydraulic systems into the IoT future. Josh Cosford • Contributing Editor Plant maintenance practices vary by industry, by economic conditions, by process and by employees. Some plants may have strict preventive maintenance programs, following a rigid schedule of maintenance tasks to lower the possibility of machine failure. On the other hand, the maintenance of machinery may be spontaneous, occurring only after a breakdown or perhaps during an unrelated shutdown. Hydraulic filtration equipment has its own set of maintenance requirements. However, these requirements are sometimes neglected just as with other machinery. This article covers these unique requirements and what an ideal maintenance program should look like. I’m not going to cover reactive maintenance, which occurs only after a breakdown, and even then, the effort only fixes the symptoms rather than investigating the cause. If your hydraulic machine only receives attention during a failure, then shame on you. The headaches related to reactive maintenance are self induced, and if you can’t afford the time and money resources to care for machinery, you may need to consider employment in the service industry.
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