Most gearbox problems on a conveyor don't start with the gearbox. They start with a decision made somewhere else: a sheave swap to squeeze out more tons an hour, a replacement sized off a nameplate...

When a dust collector stops performing, the first assumption is almost always the filters. Sometimes that's right. Usually it isn't — or it's right in a way that misses the actual cause, which is why...

Walk almost any plant that handles dry bulk material and you'll find the same quiet arrangement. There's a spot — usually a transfer point, sometimes a screen discharge — that everybody knows is...

 From Emergency Call to Maintenance Partner: What a Davis Industrial PM Program Actually Covers

A lot of plants know Davis Industrial as a phone number to call in case of emergency.

That's not a...

 7 Warning Signs Your Conveyor Gives You Before It Fails

Conveyor belts are bad at surprises. They telegraph almost everything. The failures that feel sudden usually spent weeks announcing themselves...

The Real Cost of Reactive Maintenance (It's Not the Repair)

Ask a maintenance budget how much a conveyor repair costs and it will give you a clean answer: parts, plus labor, plus whatever the freight...

Building a Pulley Lifecycle Plan: From Inspection to Relag to Replacement

Ask two plants how they handle pulleys and you'll usually hear two very different answers. One knows which pulleys are...

Five Reasons a Relag Fails Early —

and How to Avoid Every One

A relag that fails three weeks after it went on rarely fails because someone bought the wrong lagging. It fails because something went...

Why Screens Blind, Peg, and Plug — and How to Fix It Before It Costs You Tons