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Some pneumatic technicians live in fear of the day that they have to walk into a new workshop, largely because they never know how well kept the older machinery there was. Imagine you just took up your first day on the job and found that everything was coated in muck.

Static electricity is a huge potential problem that could impact otherwise safe pneumatic systems. Compressed air is often deployed as a power source in situations where you wouldn’t be able to work with any other source of energy.

Do you know if your compressed air systems are wasting more power than they need to? You’ve probably heard that pneumatic solutions are among the most effective and efficient on the market. While this is true in many use cases, whether or not it is for you depends entirely on how your equipment is getting deployed. If you’re not doing in the right way, then you can’t trust that the gear you’re working with won’t be operating in a relatively wasteful manner.

Think about what might happen if an important mission-critical pneumatic system of yours suddenly went down for the count. Would you be able to do any work at all? How would your business adapt?

How would you feel if you had to breathe dirty or oily air? You probably wouldn’t like it much, so you might imagine that there’s a good chance that your pneumatic equipment doesn’t like to be exposed to this either. Anyone who operates any kind of pneumatic system should be sure to invest the time and effort into ensuring that the air coursing through it is clean, dry and free of unnecessary oil.

When’s the last time you checked and maintained the air compressor you have hard at work in your own place of business? If you’re like many business owners, then it’s probably been a while. Fortunately, we asked the experts at SMC Pneumatics for some of their favorite tips on the best way to maintain your air compressors and keep them working longer than you had ever thought possible.

Unfortunately, leaking air is extremely common in almost any compressed air circuit no matter how well-sealed or maintained it is. This is simply a fact of life for anyone who has to work with this kind of equipment. As a result, you’ll probably end up spending a fair amount of time finding and repairing compressed air leaks.