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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

7 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...

7 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

7 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

10 months ago

ON THE FLOOR

Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.

On The Floor

ON THE FLOOR

TBM Can’t Stand Alone

Q: What’s wrong with time-based maintenance? A: Time-based maintenance (TBM) is running out of time. Maintenance thinking has gone through many changes since the 1978 Nolan and Heap report for United Airlines. The report compiled information on the conditional probability of failure versus operating age for numerous electrical and mechanical airline-industry components. Its findings challenged […]

On The Floor