News & Insights
What we have learned on site.
Practical thinking from the people who spend their weeks in engineering stores, plant rooms and maintenance workshops.
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- Company News
- Industry
- Inventory Management
- Technical Insight
The archive
More from the
Rowlec team.
Written for maintenance managers, engineers and buyers who would rather prevent the breakdown than price the part afterwards.
Inventory Management
Five signs your engineering stores are costing you more than you think
Stores areas rarely get attention until something goes missing mid-breakdown. These five symptoms show up on almost every site we visit, and each one has a cost attached to it.
Technical Insight
Bearing failure: reading the evidence before you fit the replacement
A failed bearing is the best diagnostic tool on site, and most of them go in the bin unread. Here is how to interpret what the raceways and rolling elements are telling you.
Technical Insight
Obsolete drive? What to do before you replace the whole machine
An obsolete inverter does not have to mean a capital project. There is a ladder of options between a failed drive and a full machine replacement, and most sites skip the cheap rungs.
Industry
Why standardising consumables beats chasing unit price
Squeezing another few pence out of a box of gloves feels like saving money. Reducing the number of lines you buy, hold and manage almost always saves considerably more.
Company News
Rowlec expands its mechanical and power transmission range
Alongside the electrical range Rowlec has supplied since 2010, customers can now source bearings, power transmission, pneumatics and MRO products through the same team and the same order.
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