Troubleshooting

I don’t even have to ask — I know you’re already datalogging your power unit’s particle counter to track contamination levels, and you’re using the latest wireless pressure transducers and flow meters to track case drain pressure and flow. Perhaps you have another half-dozen metrics that your custom maintenance software automatically tracks, including mean time…

By Josh Cosford, Contributing Editor I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty good at troubleshooting hydraulics. It wasn’t always that way, of course. When I was with my previous employer, I recall my first customer visit in 2008, where I was expected to resolve their cylinder issue. It was a drill rig. They couldn’t get…

Contributed by Robert Sheaf  •   Founder of CFC Industrial Training In this month’s Troubleshooting Challenge, a truck assembly line has a lift system to elevate the transmission into position for bolting it to the engine. The operator complained to the maintenance department that the system was very sluggish to respond to the forward and…

This article was updated May 8, 2022 with the solution to this challenge. By Robert J. Sheaf, Contributing Writer Troubleshooting Challenge is a new regular column in which Sheaf will highlight a situation where he was called to consult on a malfunctioning system or machine, provide a circuit to highlight the machine’s functions and ask…