Connected Systems Reveal Data Value
Digitized data capture and analysis are key to finding solutions that advance manufacturing...
Monitoring System Cuts Fire Potential
Online continuous-monitoring system helps prevent critical-pump failures and reduces maintenance...
PM Advances Conveyor Reliability
As with all plant assets, scheduled preventive maintenance is the key to avoiding expensive...
Reliability And Quality Are Related
According to the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Milwaukee, (asq.org): “Reliability has...
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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TBM Can’t Stand AloneQ: 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 […]
Condition Monitoring Barriers Dropping
Advances in data acquisition and analysis mean maintenance and operations teams can spend more time...
Does 4.0-Based PdM Match The Hype?
Industry 4.0 technology provides a path to effective predictive and prescriptive maintenance...
Speed Up Machine Failure Diagnosis
By Bryan Christiansen, Limble CMMS The ability to quickly identify causes of machine failure often...
Establish Motor-VFD PM
By Howard Penrose All types of electric motors remain the prime movers of industrial and commercial...
Use Predictive To Get to Prescriptive
Preventive asset-management is a stepping stone to prescriptive practices.
Handhelds Enhance Field Functions
Today’s handheld devices improve data collection and put decision-making power in technicians’...
Is Your Sky Falling?
Q: Is your maintenance process beyond the tipping point? A : To answer this, it’s important to...
Twenty Reasons To Stop Firefighting
One of the most effective steps you can take to have a positive impact on all areas of your...
