Assessing control valves and their performance
When assessing control valves and their performance, you need to understand the different types of valves and what hey can be tested for. For open/close…
Fluke Resources for Industries in Crisis
Keeping essential services up and running
Essential services are ramping up. Stay safe, get ahead of problems, and remain reliable with these useful resources.
Communications
Networking infrastructure, data centers
Healthcare
Pharma/diagnostic, critical hospital infrastructure
Resource and Infrastructure
Transportation, refineries, chemical processing
Government
Department of Defense, National Weather Service, National Labs
Manufacturing
Food, beverage, consumer products, pulp, paper, wood
Utilities
Water, waste, power plants, renewables
Calibration
How calibration improves optimization
With the fluctuating price of raw materials, industries are faced with a challenge to adjust to the times and the profit margins. One of the few ways…
Commissioning and Retro-Commissioning
How to perform pre-season checks on your chiller system
In the warm summer season, cooling equipment operates at near peak capacity. If that equipment is used for critical building functions, any…
Safe isolation procedures for low voltage installations
Prior to beginning work on any live installation, Regulation 14 of the Electricity at Work Regulation 1989 requires that three conditions must…
Retro-commissioning: The missing link for improving commercial facility performance
The best way to keep building performance high and operational costs low is to perform regular, ongoing maintenance on all building…
Compressed Air Leak Detection
How to prioritize the leaks in your compressed air system using LeakQ
If your compressed air system is under-performing, your connected equipment will be too. Learn how to monitor and prioritize which air leaks to fix…
How air leak detection equipment prevents downtime
Find out how air leak detection equipment prevents downtime for a 150,000 square foot plant that runs approximately 400 tools on compressed air…
Expediting air leak detection
Even the smallest air leaks can compound product and energy waste and lost production time—especially for a production line that cannot function without…
Condition Monitoring
Asset uptime for the rest of us
Tips for optimizing resources and minimizing downtime for asset uptime at large industrial plants under less than ideal conditions…
When and how to use and set up vibration monitoring on assets
Breaking down the process and rationale for successfully adding these sensors for condition monitoring…
Connect to your assets – integrate eMaint CMMS software and Fluke Connect sensors
Gain a comprehensive historical view of maintenance activity and asset health when you integrate Fluke Connect Condition Monitoring with eMaint…
Networks
Industrial ethernet cable testing (technical reference poster)
Industrial environments are becoming more connected through Industrial Ethernet Protocols such as PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT…
Choosing the right limit for industrial ethernet testing (video)
Whether you’re testing M12 or RJ-45, it's critical to select the right limit when testing an Industrial Ethernet cable. This video discusses…
Indoor Air Quality
When power quality is life or death
Power quality and reliability can be a matter of life and death in the medical field. Diagnostic machines such as X-rays, CT Scans and MRIs…
Determining air quality impacts
Testing and comparing air quality in two homes for ventilation system effectiveness, using a Fluke 985 Particle Counter…
Evaluating relative humidity: key factors and measurements
Understanding the relationship between dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, relative humidity, and dew point temperature is essential…
Power Quality and Backup Power
Maximizing VFD and UPS performance
Monitoring power quality parameters in a variable frequency drive or uninterruptible power supply, can help to maximize performance. Find out how…
Clean power delivers clean water
Maintenance electrical specialist Mark Newport was in the process of installing new electronic power factor correction units at multiple…
Performing power quality studies and troubleshooting loads
Working from his offices in Puyallup, Washington, just east of Tacoma, Mac McArthur performs power quality studies for commercial, industrial…
System Maintenance
How to use criticality analysis to prioritize assets
There are many ways to prioritize assets in a maintenance routine. Most approaches are incomplete or create more problems than they solve…
Boiler maintenance and troubleshooting best practices
Boilers and their associated systems are an important part of a modern commercial building's central energy plant. Prevent costly downtime…
Insulation resistance and electrical testing for HVAC compressor motors
HVACR mechanics rarely rely on a single test to pass or fail a function or process. As they walk up to a condensing unit, they listen…
Troubleshooting
13 common causes of motor failure
Motors are used everywhere in industrial environments and they are becoming increasingly complex and technical, sometimes making it a…
What causes a transformer to overheat?
Properly functioning cooling tubes are critical to keeping transformers from overheating. Transformers are especially susceptible to overheating…
Troubleshoot failed motors with insulation resistance testing
Facilities that use a run-to-fail maintenance approach have added pressure to bring motors and other systems back up and running as…