Don’t Displace Precision Maintenance
Industry 4.0 is the digitalization of manufacturing processes and associated companies, suppliers...
Drive Moisture From Your Transformers
Moisture dissolved in oil is relatively minor compared with what is bound in transformer cellulose...
Failure Codes Key To Problem Elimination
Q: How important are failure codes? A: A better way to ask the question is, “What are failure codes...
Metrics Key To Sustainable Success
Use the SMART approach to establish KPIs that will improve your lubrication practices. By Mark...
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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The Future of MaintenanceBy Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC)
PM Advances Conveyor Reliability
As with all plant assets, scheduled preventive maintenance is the key to avoiding expensive...
PM Accelerates Bedding Mfg Efficiency
Uptime tracking provides increased operational availability and production rates for comfort-tech...
Move from Reactive to Proactive
By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) More than...
Weibull Makes Data Useful
What does Weibull mean? It refers to one of numerous probability distributions that are used to...
Cut Costs With PM Optimization
By Abel Galindo, Life Cycle Engineering
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.
