Infrared technology can be a powerful tool in your site’s quest for equipment reliability and operational cost savings.

By Kristina Gordon, Illumiti In the SAP system, in addition to cars and trucks, the “fleet object” also allows you to manage trains, commercial vehicles, machinery, ships, and aircraft. You can also use the fleet functionality to manage containers. You can map the vehicles as equipment master records and enter vehicle-specific additional data, which is displayed […]

By Drew D. Troyer CRE, CMRP, Contributing Editor The subject of Weibull analysis often evokes a surprisingly negative response from members of the plant-engineering community. Some complain Weibull is only for design engineering, i.e., not usable in the plant. Others insist that since nearly all failures are random, condition monitoring is the only tool required. Those […]

Q: Why is standardized work in maintenance so important?

Companies can produce more reliable and efficient components faster and with fewer resources using 3D-printing technology.

In a recent online article, “Achieve Results from Your Improvement Initiatives,” author Christer Idhammar of IDCON, Raleigh, NC (idcon.com), pointed to the availability of various tools that a plant can leverage to enhance performance of a holistic reliability and maintenance (R&M) system. Among them: CMMS: Without a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), it is virtually impossible […]

It’s a tall order. You count on remote access and data collection to keep your plant’s machines “visible” 24/7/365. Just how do equipment OEMs and industrial-control-system designers help ensure that real-time visibility?

Fatigue, wear, corrosion, and/or core shrinkage destroy wire ropes. Extend rope life with a proper lubrication program.

If the proper lubricant is applied in the proper places, chain wear can be greatly minimized and maximum performance sustained.