Plant shutdowns can cause major business disruptions when they don't go as planned or finish on schedule. Reducing the ...

Predictive maintenance (PdM) technology allows organizations to continuously track equipment health, detecting early warning ...

Today, plant assets play a key role in overall enterprise efficiency. That is why manufacturers are turning to reliability-based maintenance (RBM) more and more, using RBM as a strategy to help ...

This article is an overview of the findings by John Day's assessment of Alumax of South Carolina. In this aluminum plant, different approaches to maintenance and the philosophical side of maintenance ...

Maintenance Backlog is a measure of maintenance work that is ready to be done, but has not yet been completed. Backlog may be measured in hours or weeks based on the total capacity of the maintenance ...

Maintenance operations represent a significant investment in industrial facilities, and this crucial practice can produce substantial benefits for the entire facility through optimization efforts.

Leadership can be considered the ability to influence and provide direction or guidance for others in pursuit of a goal. While several ways of influencing and directing exist, leadership is effective ...

Maintenance teams are the backbone of industrial operations, yet they often face the stress of unexpected breakdowns, ...

Autonomous maintenance is defined as a maintenance strategy where machine operators continuously monitor their equipment, make adjustments and perform minor maintenance tasks on their machines. This ...

In the mid-1980s, United Air Lines produced a commercial that clearly defined the life of an effective troubleshooter. This corporate problem-solver could never return home, bouncing from one ...

It’s likely that a maintenance organization – even your maintenance organization – is highly reactive in nature, and the root cause is that there really isn’t a plan not to be reactive. If your ...

Misalignment of an asset happens, and everyone has their method, process, and belief on how to resolve it. At that point, industry standards and proven techniques take a back seat to partial training ...