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

AssetWatch, Inc., a leading condition monitoring and predictive maintenance organization, announced closing its Series B ...

Optimizing your warehouse space starts with determining exactly how much of your warehouse is being used and what it’s being used for. These warehouse utilization metrics are important to determining ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grassroot industrial plant construction in North America continues to experience explosive growth. Referring to plants being constructed from the ground up with no previous site improvements, ...

In today's fast-paced business environment, accurate and validated asset information is essential for efficient operations and sound decision-making. This article highlights the importance of asset ...

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.