Many impending failures are accompanied by overheating. That is why thermal imaging is especially useful for monitoring rotating equipment. Thermography can also be used together with other predictive techniques, such as analysis, vibration monitoring, and ultrasound measurement.
Every year contractors across the country sign up to attend a home show. If you are planning to be one of them, remember to do your homework before the event to make it really pay off.
Are issues facing contractors in the San Antonio area any different than those faced in other parts of the United States? The NEWS assembled a group of contractors for a discussion of issues facing business owners in this region.
When it came time to build a better mousetrap, Shawn Stark, president of Stark’s Plumbing & Heating Inc., decided to go green - green technology that is - in his company’s newest venture: Green by Design.
Like B.F. Skinner’s famed Harvard-trained pigeons, often we just keep on pecking away with the same old resolutions. Perhaps we should come at the problem another way - stopping old behavior may be better than starting new behavior.
It all depends upon whom you talk to, but many industry insiders believe zoning is catching on with contractors across the country. At the same time, dealers who are building their businesses with zoning are enjoying the higher profit margins that can come along with it.
The NEWS provides you with the industry’s latest commercial cooling products in this photo feature, along with our Commercial Cooling Showcase product grid.
Do HVAC contractors often have problems communicating with their local mechanical inspectors? It would be a safe bet to say that some do. At the recent meeting of the Mechanical Inspectors Association of Michigan (MIAM), inspector members learned about conflict and conflict management.
Integrating CO2 into industrial refrigeration, trying to hit mandated energy-efficiency targets on a tight budget, and checking the mechanical integrity of a system as painlessly as possible were topics covered at the 2007 Ammonia Refrigeration Conference & Trade Show.
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