Technical resources & guidelines
From maintenance guidelines and operating logs to inspection specifications and contingency planning, Travelers BoilerRe offers a range of technical resources to help you and your clients manage equipment breakdown risks.
Resources & guides
These key insights can help your clients understand the value of equipment breakdown coverage.
These readings can help business owners plan for and recover from a breakdown.
Here are specific procedures businesses can use to keep their equipment operating safely and reliably.
- Electrical switchgear and switchboards
- Maintaining station batteries
- Air conditioning and refrigeration equipment (non-ammonia types) maintenance guidelines
- Maintenance guidelines for electrical equipment
- Maintenance guidelines for controls and safety devices on boilers and pressure vessels
- Seasonal heating boilers
- Maintenance guidelines for centrifugal fans and blowers
- Maintenance guidelines for chillers
- CNC machining centers maintenance guidelines
- Maintenance guidelines for boiler combustion safeguards
- Maintenance guidelines for electrical motors
- Maintenance guidelines for emergency generators
- Maintenance guidelines for gears and enclosed gearsets
- Maintenance guidelines for HVAC equipment
- Maintenance guidelines for laser and plasma cutting tables
- Maintenance guidelines for mechanical and hydraulic presses
- Maintenance guidelines for photovoltaic systems
- Maintenance guidelines for pumps
- Maintenance guidelines for transformers
- Maintenance guidelines for uninterruptable power supplies
- Maintenance guidelines for wind power equipment
Maintenance personnel can use these documents to track critical equipment tasks and tests.
Regular testing and inspection is a big part of preventative maintenance. Here are some guidelines.
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