Maintaining Mission-Critical Equipment

摘要

Highly engineered, expertly machined and typically very expensive, gearboxes are among the many workhorses in modern power plants that are robustly built to run hard and go the distance, until they fail. When equipment fails, a plant manager's first concern is getting it back into service. After it is back online, the next concern should be why the equipment failed and how failures can be prevented in the future. To prevent disastrous downtime, gearboxes are designed to be easily inspected. And, through proper maintenance they can be kept running for years to come.