The following article is the first of a three-part series in which we explore and clarify the challenges facing maintenance ...

On Tuesday, June 3 at the 27th Annual Reliable Plant Conference & Exhibition, Lisandra Cobu was introduced as the first ...

Your lube room is the foundation of your lubrication program and a key driver of equipment reliability. In this webinar, see ...

FMEA is an analytical tool used in the design phase to help mitigate risk and failures during processes. Read about the main types of FMEA and learn how to implement it.

Things break. No matter what you do, there is always a chance that products will fail. The same holds true for bearings, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t prevent many of the issues that result in ...

A Pareto chart provides facts needed for setting priorities. It organizes and displays information to show the relative importance of various problems or causes of problems. It is a form of a ...

Kaizen events are used to improve processes within an organization quickly. Read about when to use Kaizen events and how to implement them.

MTTR is a metric used by maintenance departments to measure the average time needed to determine the cause of and fix failed equipment.

A successful training program is built from clear and comprehensive job descriptions that define the expected tasks to be performed by the employee and the expected behaviors to be demonstrated by ...

Tracking downtime has a profound effect on how, when and where maintenance resources are used. The time invested in logging equipment downtime can also be easily justified by the time- and m… ...

The first industrial electric motor was probably considered a breakthrough in its day, even as there was plenty of room for improvement. As technology has advanced, motor manufacturers have developed ...