Failure Prevention Associates was founded by Dr. Karl Hoffower in 2007 to help make Predictive and Condition-based Maintenance programs become a reality for many more companies.
Since then, Failure Prevention Associates has grown to have offices in California and Texas, with jobs and staff that fly all over the world helping companies and factories with predictive maintenance services and implementing reliability based maintenance programs.
Failure Prevention Associates is comprised of staff certified in Vibration Analysis, Thermographics, Ultrasound Inspection, Electric Motor Testing, Field Balancing, Laser Alignment and Reliability Centered Maintenance Practice.
Our staff have the on the ground experience combined with their certifications that allow them to rapidly analysis and discover condition based problems.
We have also developed unique training programs based on our experience training and implementing a large number and variety of Reliability Centered maintenance programs so that the technicians we train get hands-on experience and practice with all of their tools and with discovering and repairing failure conditions.
Our certified experts also have the experience to work with your administrators and executives to implement your full programs.
Whether you are looking to optimize your maintenance to save money and increase efficiency, train your staff or implement a full program, our experts can deliver what you need to maximize your uptime and eliminate downtime, leading to better profits and keeping your buiness in the black.
Around the clock, around the world, we come to you.
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Failure Prevention Associates, Incorporated, herein referred to as FPA, Inc., offers condition monitoring tool systems, training on those systems or providing certified technicians to perform service using those systems to help you avoid unplanned downtime, collateral damage from complete failures and other types of avoidable maintenance losses.
FPA, Inc is incorporated in the State of California. In doing business with FPA, Inc. you and your company agree to name the County of Santa Clara as the venue for filing and adjudicating disputes.
Recommendations from FPA, Inc. staff are based on generally accepted industry practices, information supplied by the manufactuers and past case histories. The end-user is solely responsible for the results of acting or not acting on information supplied by PdM tool systems and/or FPA, Inc.
All PdM tool systems, trademarks, servicemarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners or manufactuers. All systems represented here for sale have unique and individual terms and conditions of sale. FPA, Inc. is a reseller and/or representative of a product. As such, FPA, Inc. does not manufactuer any equipment and cannot be held liable for the quality of said equipment. Warranty claims must be submitted to the manufactuer.
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Safe operation and obtaining of the desired results from a particular tool system is exclusively dependent upon following the instructions contained in the user guides for each system. Proper training in the use of the system has been found to improve results. Many systems achieve results from regular, consistent inspection with a comparison of past results to guide decision making, desired results and ultimatley overall return on investment. Professional training classes and implementation assistance are available to help achieve the desired results. No claim or guarantee is made as to the actual results you may achieve when using the tools or systems offered for sale from FPA, Inc. Claims made by FPA, Inc staff are solely a description of past results other end-users have revealed and are not a guarantee of what you may achieve currently and/or into the future.
Not detecting issues when properly trained and properly using a particular tool is in itself a valuable action. No claims shall be accepted nor compensated for. Even when after repeated use the desired results are not achieved.