Maintenance guides
Field-tested notes from the floor
Short, opinionated guides on condition monitoring, preventive work and the human side of writing repairs that future technicians will actually find. Curated and updated as the Machinefixes team writes them.
- 6 min readHow to read FFT peaks, recognize common failure signatures, and decide what to escalate versus log for trend.Read guideCondition monitoringDiagnostics
- 7 min readA pre-start inspection cadence for centrifugal and positive-displacement pumps: bearings, seals, lubrication, alignment.Read guidePreventive maintenanceRotating equipment
- 5 min readNaming, structure, and field-tested detail — what to record so your repair surfaces in search and ranks above the noise.Read guideKnowledge captureWork-orders
- 4 min readEscalation triggers that mean you should hand off instead of pushing the next diagnostic step: trending vibration, repeated trips, and more.Read guideEscalationReliability