Digital Tools Accelerate Sustainability
Improved productivity isn’t the only benefit your enterprise can realize from implementing...
Make Cybersecurity A Journey
Simply ticking boxes as steps to a destination will not provide the cybersecurity you need...
Data Integrity Matters
How much confidence do you have in your organization’s data when you need to make tough decisions...
Tips That Spark Innovation
Today’s manufacturing environment calls for agile operations that can rapidly respond to changes in...
ON THE FLOOR
Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
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ISO 55001 Doesn’t Guarantee Best PracticesQ: Why should ISO 55001 be used to improve asset management? A: Asset management is about balancing opportunities, risks, challenges, and costs to enable value creation (defined by your company objectives/goals). This should be done with the entire life cycle of assets in mind.
Disrupt Existing Assets With Digital Twins
Data-centric engineering and sharing project information in the cloud enable value-added digital...
Protect Your OT Systems
The pandemic has forced organizations to rethink traditional work environments and many employers...
Root Cause Elimination Is A Winning Mindset
The ASQ (American Society for Quality, Milwaukee, WI, asq.org), says, “A root cause is defined as a...
Metrics Key To Sustainable Success
Use the SMART approach to establish KPIs that will improve your lubrication practices. By Mark...
TBM Can’t Stand Alone
Q: What’s wrong with time-based maintenance? A: Time-based maintenance (TBM) is running out of time...
Line of Site Clarity Drives Engagement
Line-of-sight (LoS) has been called goal cascading and business-plan deployment. Most companies...
Schedule 100% Of Available Hours
By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) and Jeff...
Standardize Before Improving
When you make changes (anticipated improvements) in an unstable process, you introduce chaos. While...
