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?
Buy for Maintainability
ON THE FLOOR
Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
FMEA or RCM: Is There a Difference?Q: Should I do a FMEA or RCM to resolve a machine issue? A:The short answer is that it depends on several things, primarily frequency of occurrence and severity of the failure mode. I frequently am asked, what’s the difference between doing an FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) and an RCM (reliability-centered maintenance) evaluation?
Bourbon Boom Drives Distillery Expansion
Historic Kentucky spirits manufacturer doubles production capacity with minimal increase in...
What’s Wrong With My Bolts?
Investigations of two real-world mysteries help explain why bolts can be too loose or too tight.
Motor Repair Anywhere, Anytime
A family-owned motor-repair and -service company uses a never-say-no attitude to tackle challenging...
Don’t Ignore Small Failures
While a power plant’s fractured oil plug seemed like a small failure, the root cause suggested...
PM Helps Eliminate DM
Michael Flint drives a preventive-maintenance strategy at Brown University to help direct wasted...
CMMS Raises Efficiencies for Yeast Maker
Ten years in, a computerized maintenance management system is still producing desired results.
Creative Craftsmanship
Kreinik continues to invent new ways to breathe life into old machinery.
A PMO Will Generate Resources
When it comes to plant operations, personnel regularly contend with scores of issues. Through this...
