Reliability Engineering Students Share Views
Q: What are engineering students saying about reliability? A: Four reliability and maintainability...
Establish Motor-VFD PM
By Howard Penrose All types of electric motors remain the prime movers of industrial and commercial...
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...
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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Develop Continuous Improvement Muscle Memory
Q : Is a Kaizen event or coaching kata best for continuous improvement? A : There are many tools available to perform continuous improvement, but the one that will make your facility most successful requires a process that enables the entire workforce to become problem solvers. To discuss this requires a few definitions/explanations.
Twenty Reasons To Stop Firefighting
One of the most effective steps you can take to have a positive impact on all areas of your...
Equate Motor Defects to Profitability, GHG Impact
One of the reasons that most condition-based maintenance and physical-asset management programs do...
The RCM Paradigm Shift
The science of reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is understood by many companies today...
Reliability Engineers Are STO Essentials
Don’t overlook the value reliability engineering can deliver to your shutdown/turnaround/outage...
A ‘Natural’ Business Case For PdM
Consider the value that predictive maintenance can bring to your operations in terms of safety...
How Did Deming View Reliability?
Q: How much is reliability tied to Deming’s 14 Points? A: There isn’t space to review all of the 14...
Balance Asset Management Objectives Wisely
By Drew D. Troyer, CRE, Contributing Editor In my two most-recent columns (Jan. and Feb. 2019), I...
Power Quality And Automation: Why Problems Arise
Manufacturers are responsible for providing the power quality required by today’s automation...