Category: Maintenance

Normalizing is a widely popular heat treatment process for metals to increase ductility and toughness. This heat treatment is also known as normalizing annealing as the normalizing heat treatment...

Galvanizing, a coating of zinc has been used to protect iron and steel from rusting or corrosion. Galvanized steel, due to its high durability is used widely worldwide. Even though it is always...

"Does Stainless Steel Rust?" This question sometimes arises in every material engineer's mind whenever they learn about stainless steel. It is well-known that stainless steel is specifically prepared...

Bolts and Screws are two unique mechanical fasteners used to hold two or more components together. Many believe that bolt and screw refer to the same fastening hardware as they look similar and...

Steel as an engineering material finds diverse applications. The basic components of all steel materials are iron and carbon. Even though Steel signifies a broad range of ferrous metal alloys, most...

Maintenance is the effort required to undertake for maintaining the equipment performance similar to new ones. Unscheduled downtime due to equipment malfunction is one of the major concerns for...