Thanks to everyone for their help with this issue. Apparently I asked a reasonably good question.
As a fairly simple minded person I believed the problem to be mechanical in nature so after a good cleaning of the air filter, hoses and suction cups the issues seems to be corrected (we can not...
I have a process that involves picking up a 3/16"x30"x60" piece of glass with a small vacuum system. Recently we have experienced a situation where the glass falls from the device. We currently have very high humidity and I am curious if vacuum increases or decreases as the humidity increases.