Noria Corporation is excited to be exhibiting at the SMRP 2025 Annual Conference, October 6–9 in Fort Worth, TX!

Although every company is unique, there are some maintenance and reliability truths that apply to most organizations. These case studies look at many forms of maintenance, leadership, processes, ...

MTBF is a calculation used to predict the time between failures of a piece of machinery. Below, we'll discuss the MTBF calculation, MTBF traps to be aware of and how to improve your MTBF. Mean time ...

34th President of the United States and U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower is famous for making the paradoxical statement, "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but ...

Total productive maintenance (TPM) does not have a great reputation in American industry these days. A study conducted in 2006 by The Manufacturing Research Center showed that only 38 percent of U.S.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is maintenance that monitors the performance and condition of equipment during normal operation to reduce the likelihood of failures. Also known as condition-based ...

Criticality analysis is defined as the process of assigning assets a criticality rating based on their potential risk of failure. Criticality analysis is defined as the process of assigning assets a ...

Vibration analysis helps you monitor and detect issues using vibration data. Read about vibration analysis methodology, tools and techniques, vibration analysis measurement methods, and more.

Managing a work order backlog is not the most exciting of maintenance tasks, but without a complete and up-to-date backlog, important work will be forgotten. Indeed, good backlog management is a ...

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 ...

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” This famous line from the 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke”, starring Paul Newman, appropriately depicts the unfortunate fact that most business leaders ...

Total productive maintenance (TPM) is the process of using machines, equipment, employees and supporting processes to maintain and improve the integrity of production and the quality of systems.