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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS: ENERGY CONTROL SYSTEMS | LIFTS | VACUUMS | STEAM TRAPS

Cats are smart. That's a commonly held belief by many, especially those who live with them. Scrappy and Princess, our two feline housemates, each forked out the $18 fee and aced the Mensa Home Test (https://www.us.mensa.org/join/mht/), but neither has managed to pass the supervised admission test, mostly because curiosity always gets the best of them and they end up staring out the window at the whimsical air, which inevitably leads to cleaning and napping. Maybe they're just not genius-smart.

Here we are on the eve the latest end of the world prediction, I can't help but recall an incident while in college where someone interpreted a Nostradamus quadrain and predicted that a mass murder would occur at a university that is perpendicular to train tracks in a certain area of latitude and longitude on a Friday morning on March of 1986.

I spent the past three days touring Baldor (www.baldor.com) manufacturing plants and test centers in North Carolina and South Carolina. It was a week of fresh-baked cookies constantly coming out of the oven. I mean that figuratively, of course, but the days were filled with one batch of sensory delights after another.

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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS: GATEWAY MODULES | HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEMS | HARNESSES | ALIGNMENT APPS

One of the contributing factors to the Maintenance Crisis is that boomers are not just retiring but major thought leaders are departing to eternity. We lost several years ago the wisdom and energy of John Moubray author of numerous books on RCM and Maintenance Management strategies that revolutionized industry processes and practices. In honor of John, I am posting a column he gave me on the 21st Century Maintenance Organization. 10 years after original publication, I would love to hear from industry to validate whether this approach still applies or not.

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