17/06/2026
🔧 Is your team still "wrench turning" or performance monitoring?
Modern industrial processing demands a shift from reactive maintenance to proactive system stewardship. Yet many organizations discover this too late: after commissioning, when the project team has moved on and operational realities set in.
The hidden costs of poor lifecycle planning:
✗ Unplanned downtime waiting for cranes to access equipment
✗ Performance degradation without baseline documentation
✗ Critical component failures with no spare parts strategy
✗ Safety risks from inadequate LOTO planning
The solution? A system steward mindset that starts at design and continues through 20-30 years of operation.
Scott Schmid of Cyclonaire Corporation explores in this article how to optimize:
• Total cost of ownership
• Uptime and reliability
• Maintenance accessibility
• Energy efficiency
• Asset longevity
Get the details in the story: https://www.powderbulksolids.com/pneumatic-conveying/from-equipment-to-ownership-the-system-steward-mindset