The Bearing That Failed Between Preventive Maintenance Visits A customer had a conveyor drive bearing that was scheduled for replacement every 6 months (preventive maintenance). It failed at month 4. The machine was down for 8 hours while they replaced it. If they’d been monitoring the bearing, they would have seen it was degrading weeks …

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