Vast volumes of broad loom carpet and carpet tiles are manufactured every day. Imagine the immense weight on the lower cases of carpet tiles or rolls of carpet at the bottom of the storage stacks of pallets in the warehouse.  Naturally the bottom dwellers of the storage experience will get compacted (crushed) by the weight above. When installing […]

Facility and property managers are faced with carpet maintenance decisions such as replace or clean, out source or in house and budgetary restrictions.  Unless your facility is large enough to support the expense of training and maintaining personnel, acquiring and maintaining the “correct equipment” and inventorying the proper cleaning agents for your carpets, it is […]

Larry Bird, the greatest basketball player of all time, with just seconds to go in the final game of the 1980 NBA Championship, was in a team huddle with coach K.C. Jones when Larry said, “just get me the ball and get out of the way”.  Coach Jones retorted, “Larry, I’m the coach and I […]

Reliability-centered maintenance is a corporate-level maintenance strategy that is implemented to optimize the maintenance program of a company or facility. The expected result of an RCM program is the implementation of specific maintenance strategies on each of the assets of the facility.   There are four principles that are critical for a reliability centered maintenance […]