Physics at Play: Solving the Mystery of Recurring VFD and Motor Failures
As commercial/industrial HVAC service specialists, we at MSC often deal with complex challenges requiring extensive testing and...
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- Sep 12
MSC Revives Facility HVAC System Suffering from Poor Maintenance
Several months ago, a Northern New Jersey manufacturing facility reached out to MSC to address several serious recurring issues with...
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MSC
- Aug 30
High-Heat Emergency Call at Process Plant
During a recent heatwave, MSC received an urgent emergency call from a facility manager at a plant where we provide scheduled HVAC...
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MSC
- Aug 14
Forgoing PM Doesn't Save Money. It Creates Far-Higher Expenses and Postpones Them for Later
Businesses nowadays are more aware than ever of the importance of a good HVAC preventive maintenance program to optimize efficiency,...
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Pete McGrath
- Jul 26
How to Prepare for a Chiller Failure Emergency
If your facility depends heavily on chilled water, what happens when the chiller fails? What would such an emergency cost your business?...
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Justin Becker
- Jul 12
How Building Owners Can Optimize Their HVAC This Summer
Originally appeared in Facility Executive Magazine Heat waves are putting mission-critical facilities at risk this summer, and facility...
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MSC
- Jul 11
Retirement Announcement: Congratulations Mike Hartigan
MSC would like to extend our best wishes and heartfelt thanks to Mike Hartigan, who retired last month after nearly 40 years of dedicated...
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MSC
- Jun 28
MSC Vibration Analysis in Action
MSC recently performed vibration analysis and thermal imaging on six critical blowers at a northern New Jersey manufacturing facility. In...
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Andrew Heilmann, PE
- Jun 9
Wildfire Smoke and How It Affects Your HVAC Filters: PM2.5 Explained
PM2.5 is a term used to describe atmospheric particles that measure 2.5 microns or less. While there are obvious health concerns linked...
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MSC
- Jun 6
Hospital Service Call Becomes Retro-Commissioning Project
MSC service technicians were dispatched to a large New Jersey healthcare facility to address multiple complaints in an area that had...
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MSC
- May 18
Outsourcing Facilities: Environmental Monitoring and Controls Critical in Drug Compounding
Drug compounding is the process of combining, mixing, or altering pharmaceutical ingredients to create a medication tailored to an...
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Pete McGrath
- May 1
MSC Project Throwback: Vapor Recovery Unit Renovation
The year was 1981, and MSC had been contracted to gut and refurbish several Edwards Engineering explosion-proof gasoline vapor recovery...
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MSC
- Apr 17
Ionocaloric Cooling: Will This New Breakthrough Replace Harmful Refrigerants?
Scientists at the Dept. of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a promising new refrigeration process that uses...
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MSC
- Mar 31
MSC Service Call: Finding an Elusive Propylene Glycol Leak with Dye
During a monthly HVAC preventive maintenance visit to a large manufacturing facility, an MSC service technician noticed that the level of...
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Pete McGrath
- Mar 15
Hiring Good People
Mechanical Service Corporation founder and company president Harry Hartigan has always said, “If you hire good people that want to work...
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MSC
- Feb 27
MSC Design/Builds Complex Projects for Special Environments
Among the various HVAC, process cooling, and building automation services provided by MSC, design/build is one that many clients might be...
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MSC
- Feb 13
Understanding MERV and ASHRAE's Recommended Filter Value
The Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value, commonly known as MERV, is a standard developed by ASHRAE that measures the overall effectiveness...
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Pete McGrath
- Jan 30
MSC Always Answers the Call
Since the day in 1978 when Hartigan Refrigeration officially became Mechanical Service Corporation, MSC has made itself available to...
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MSC
- Jan 16
Addressing Lingering HVAC Problems with "Design/Repair" Projects
An MSC service technician arrived at our client’s manufacturing facility early one morning to perform HVAC preventive maintenance and was...
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MSC
- Dec 29, 2022
HVAC Plays an Integral Part in Preventing the Spread of Smoke and Fire Via Air Handling Systems
Fire codes in most jurisdictions require duct smoke detectors to be installed on the supply side of air handling units of more than 2,000...
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