We don’t sell this Maintenance Schedule Whiteboard (at least not yet), but it’s earned some nice praise:

Much easier to keep track of what everyone is doing
“It’s much easier to use than our old spreadsheet. Now everyone can see our maintenance schedule and what’s coming up and it’s much easier to keep track of what everyone is doing.”
Director of Maintenance, Rubber roller manufacturer, Moonachie NJ

Saves hundreds of production hours a year
“We keep track of preventative maintenance on 50 machines. They are always breaking down due to lack of PM and this board saves hundreds of production hours a year by having maintenance activity displayed 24/7.”
Lean Production Consultant, Tool manufacturer, Latrobe PA

We don’t sell this safety switch (at least not yet), but it might be a valuable addition to your bulk storage tanks.

The maker says it can help you meet the American Petroleum Institute’s 2350 Recommended Practice (RP) for overfill and spill protection. You can see recent updates to API 2350 here.

The PURELOC® fittings featured here aren’t PIG® products, but they look interesting.

They’re said to provide LEAK-PROOF connections, so they may cut your need for some PIG® products. Ah, well—we’ll have to make up the business somewhere else.

The niftiest thing is that you can SEE THROUGH the outer components to make sure that fittings are properly in place. How cool is that? Has that been done before?

The press release says that everything’s precision-made from chemically-inert PFA to serve industries where there simply can’t be contamination: medical, pharmaceutical, laboratory, biomedical, chromatography, food and beverage, semiconductor manufacturing, and chemical. Check ‘em out.

I’ve been checking out dry ice blasting today. Cool stuff. Pun intended, but it’s true:

This article mentions an apparent advancement in crimpable couplings that help prevent leaks in hydraulic lines.An excerpt: Both [of the hoses mentioned] handle petroleum, water-based fluids and synthetic hydraulic fluids. Applications include general hydraulic systems, hydraulic tools, mobile equipment and high-pressure pneumatic systems up to 500 psi. They are ideal for equipment such as power and telephone cherry pickers, lubrication lines, blowout preventer control lines, hydraulic lifts, farm machinery and construction equipment.

When leaks do happen, that’s a job for PIG® products. But it’s always nice to be able to prevent leaks in the first place.