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’...
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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Outsource? Internalize? It Depends.By Dr. Klaus M. Blache and Dr. F. H. (Skipper) Yocum Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) Q: Is it better to outsource or internalize maintenance functions? A: Why outsource? The plants of the first company are located in industrial regions where many skilled workers are available. The company’s maintenance structure is a maintenance […]
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...
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...
Aging Equipment Isn’t the Problem
Q: How much does equipment age matter?
Mixer Blends On, and On, and On
After almost 40 years of service, the same rotary glass batcher continues mixing material for 1M+...
On The Floor: Manage Infrastructure
Q: How important is managing infrastructure?
Achieve Results from Your Improvement Initiatives
What’s keeping your reliability and maintenance efforts from delivering the desired returns?
