In today's competitive industrial landscape, implementing effective reliability practices is essential. As companies worldwide pursue higher productivity, achieving best-in-class reliability practices ...

Feeling safe is an important aspect of life. A safe house, a safe job, etc., are things everyone desires. To that end, society has developed procedures for almost everything we do, especially in the ...

Lean manufacturing or “going lean,” refers to a series of methods, philosophies and tools to minimize waste in your business and maximize production. Read about different ways your company can go lean ...

What is a Fishbone Diagram? A fishbone diagram is a cause-and-effect discovery tool that helps figure out the reason(s) for defects, variations or failures within a process. In other words, it helps ...

Workplace safety standards continue to improve each year; however, today’s workplace, especially within a warehouse, can still include dangerous environments with many potential hazards and associated ...

What is the real cost of a failure? Unfortunately, we don't know until after the failure has occurred - and reliability is about avoiding the failure. So, here is our quandary: How much is a non-event ...

Bookstores are crowded with large print, 90-page bestsellers that tout the next miracle cure for every business ill. Unlike these flavor-of-the-month moneymakers, the idea of Continuous Process ...

Mean time between failures (MTBF) is a prediction of the time between the innate failures of a piece of machinery during normal operating hours. In other words, MTBF is a maintenance metric, ...

Some of the most critical maintenance activities require considerable commitments of time and effort. Examples include naming all stock items and all equipment, setting up preventive maintenance (PM) ...

Electric motors in U.S. industrial applications account for more than 60 percent of electricity use; even small increases in efficiency improvements can make a big difference in energy savings. Two ...

When making a drive conversion or designing a new power transmission system, maintenance managers and design engineers have three broad options: roller chain drives, V-belt drives and synchronous belt ...

Noisy gear trains have been a common problem for gear designers for a long time. With the demands for smaller gearboxes transmitting more power at higher rpm and incumbent demands for greater ...