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Operating System Drives ReliabilityThe Americold Operating System connects a global facility network to improve transparency, awareness, and asset reliability.
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Does 4.0-Based PdM Match The Hype?Industry 4.0 technology provides a path to effective predictive and prescriptive maintenance practices.
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Speed Up Machine Failure DiagnosisBy Bryan Christiansen, Limble CMMS The ability to quickly identify causes of machine failure often is the difference between a productive day with all targets met and a day of wasted raw materials, labor, time, and lost revenue. Here are five tips you can use to speed up machine-failure diagnosis. Maintain accurate equipment history. Every […]
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Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
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Precision Maintenance Drives UptimeBy Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) and Tim Dunton, Reliability Solutions Q: How important are essential craft skills and precision maintenance? A: Because of his extensive applied experience in improving machinery/plant performance, I asked Tim Dunton, Director of Product Development, Reliability Solutions, Walnut Hill, FL (reliabilitysolutions.net), a UT-RMC […]
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SAP S/4HANA Tracks Purchasing FunctionsBy Kristina Sturek, Illumiti As a purchasing manager it is important to have real-time data available at a moment’s notice in terms of operational (day-to-day) and analytical data. This allows you to monitor the immediate needs of your organization, in addition to long-term trends and logistics. SAP S/4HANA manages day-to-day pruchasing activities using the Procurement […]
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Improve Through Culture ChangeWhen I visit and/or assess plants, the largest roadblock to improvement that I encounter continues to be a need to improve culture. When enterprises experience success in this area, it usually comes from one of two paths: • communicating a clear, understandable vision that is believable and carries easily identified benefits • dissatisfaction that people […]
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Find Competitive Advantage With Asset ManagementBy Drew D. Troyer, CRE, CMRP, Contributing Editor Most people think of reliable asset management as maintenance. This is natural. How many, though, also think of it as an opportunity to create a competitive advantage? Let’s explore. Some years back, researchers Robert H. Hayes and Steven C. Wheelwright created a model showing how operational excellence […]
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Asset Management: Evolution to RevolutionQ: Asset management is changing rapidly. Where is it all headed? A: Maintenance and reliability concepts have been evolving for a long time with increasing complexity and capabilities. This is further complicated by global competition, the high number of trades/technicians leaving the workforce, changing business dynamics, and the ongoing need to improve culture.
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Engineer Safer ConveyorsUsing a life-cycle-cost approach to conveyor system design will result in increased reliability and worker safety.
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SAP S/4HANA Tracks Purchasing Functions
By Kristina Sturek, Illumiti As a purchasing manager it is important to have real-time data available at a moment’s notice in terms of operational (day-to-day) and analytical data. This allows you to monitor the immediate needs of your organization, in addition to long-term trends and logistics. SAP S/4HANA manages day-to-day pruchasing activities using the Procurement […]
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Breaking Mining Data SilosPressure to enhance efficiency and meet production targets drives improved operational visibility through data gathering.
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Brush Up on Mag-Meter BasicsMag meters (electromagnetic flow meters) offer a number of benefits in fluid-handling applications.
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When Water & Oil Mix, Assets SufferControlling the amount of water contamination in your lubricants will extend rotating-equipment life.
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Know Your Kappa ValuesIf your bearings require grease lubrication, reliable long-term performance is determined by the Kappa value.
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Weld inspectionThe AxSEAM scanner provides inspection of long seam welds. Along with the OmniScan X3 flaw detector, the scanner is part of the company’s portable phased-array, ultrasonic-testing inspection solutions targeting longitudinal weld inspection on pipes and pressure vessels. The scanner uses toolless probe holders and dome-shaped wheels to allow single-operator use. ScanDeck LED indicators alert the […]
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Gain Control Of MRO InventoryLack of effective and sustained parts management has a negative impact on your production planning and scheduling.
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Contact-tracing solutionProximity Trace provides proximity distancing alerts and contact tracing through a wearable device for workers. Devices are affixed to a hard hat or worn on the body with a lanyard and emit a progressively louder alarm, alerting workers when they are too close to each other. The alarm can also serve to change behaviors by […]
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Fugitive emission-control unitA fugitive emission-control unit is said to eliminate harmful emissions exiting from analyzers and GC vents to meet environmental compliance while avoiding the need for gas flaring associated with air contamination. Through a catalytic combustion process, the product oxidizes the vented sample, converting hydrocarbons to CO2 and water vapor, while maintaining a stable outlet vent […]
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Edge-sealing compoundFlex-Tred edge-sealing compound contains no VOCs. A one-part elastomeric sealant, the product is applied by squeeze tube to seal the company’s anti-slip tape to a range of surfaces. The reportedly fast-drying product can be applied to metals, including galvanized, wood, particleboard, plywood, EPDM and other types of rubber, thrermoplastics, thermoset plastics, fiberglass, concrete, masonry, and […]
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Oil and gas flow measurementBedrock OSA secure automation platform provides full integration of flow computer functionality into the platform. The OSA +Flow family embeds Flow-Cal measurement applications into the high performance, security, and reported simplicity of the software. The software has been incorporated across all controllers providing scalability for PLC, RTU, or DCS flow-control requirements at custody transfer stations, […]
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Rectangular Photoelectric SensorsWenglor rectangular 50 x 50 x 20-mm photoelectric sensors include diffuse with background suppression, retroreflective, retroreflective for transparent objects, and through-beam models. Sensing ranges vary from 1,200 mm for background-suppression sensors to 20 m for through-beam models. With the standard 50-mm x 50-mm housings, the sensors provide long range and small spot diameter, simple potentiometer […]
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