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Featured Podcast: Exploring the GA500 AC Microdrive

The GA500 AC Microdrive, from Yaskawa America Inc., Waukegan, IL (yaskawa.com), is a durable, extremely versatile motor drive designed to simplify programming, installation, and ongoing use in a wide range of environments. Edward Tom, GA500 AC Microdrive Product Manager, describes the unit’s various features and discusses how it is designed to be an effective, versatile […]

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Special-Edition Podcasts From The SMRP Conference

8 months ago

The 2020 SMRP Annual Conference will be held virtually this year, from Oct. 19 to 21. EP editorial...

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Featured Podcast: Maintenance Benefits as Digital Transformation...

8 months ago

Maintenance teams are finding themselves in the middle of a major shift toward digitalization of...

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Featured Podcast: Developing Future Workers Village Style

9 months ago

Jason Green, Vice President of Human Resources at ABB, Ft. Smith, AR, describes the multi-faceted...

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Move from Reactive to Reliable

12 months ago

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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Educate for the Trades

By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) and Dr. Paul Kirkland, Grants Management, Monroe County Schools, TN Q: When should you start recruiting skilled trades/technicians? A: Many parents today are focused on sending their children to college as a measure of success. I’m all for a university education if […]

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