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Maintenance staff usually travel in pairs!

April 26, 2016

Does your maintenance staff have to wait on parts, wait for the equipment to be available, search for tools to do their job, work lots of overtime, travel long distances to the job, etc? Most maintenance staff work in pairs.  This means that when you see one of your maintenance staff struggling to do his […]

LUDECA announces exclusive Alignment and Ultrasound partnerships

April 19, 2016

LUDECA is excited to announce two new partnerships: In order to improve and diversify our product offerings, we developed an exclusive partnership with the prestigious Swedish manufacturer, EASY-LASER, to promote and sell the next generation of precise, easy-to-use laser systems for solutions that evolve with our industry. Secondly, we have partnered with the global ultrasound […]

Avoid these 3 mistakes when greasing bearings

April 12, 2016

Friction is all around us. Without it, we would have difficulty walking, running, or even standing. We need friction to drive our cars and fly our airplanes, and we need friction for our motors to drive pumps and our pumps to push product. So when it comes to our plant assets, friction is both friend […]

PM’s can be costly!

April 5, 2016

Did you know that equipment PMs (Preventive Maintenance) tend to become more expensive over time?  Why does this happen?  For example, additional maintenance steps tend to be added to a PM as time passes.  The machine configuration (design installation) changes and the PMs are never updated to reflect these modifications.  Some PMs are not written […]

Exclusive News: EASY-LASER and LUDECA Announce Exclusive Partnership for U.S. Market

April 1, 2016

Since 1981 the name LUDECA has been synonymous with SHAFT ALIGNMENT. We introduced to the U.S. market the first pre-programmed dial indicator alignment tool, the Machinery Alignment Computer (“M.A.C.”), followed by the ALI 2000 in 1983. We then pioneered laser alignment in the United States with the OPTALIGN®. This success was followed in the years […]