Managing Maintenance As A Value Center
It’s a fact: Investing in maintenance improves business performance. Isn’t it time for maintenance professionals to take hold of their fate and start acting like the ‘value center’ they are?
Rare Earth Minerals & The Race To Electric Vehicles
It’s a touchy issue, but one that needs discussing. Introduction of new lines of electric-platform vehicles will increase the dependency that consumers have on rare-earth mining.
Leading Indicators For Asset Management: OVE (Overall Vibration Effectiveness)
Proactive management of vibration in equipment assets is a must for reliable, safe, and environmentally responsible operation. OVE helps drive the right plant-floor behaviors.
Apples To Automobiles: Comparisons And Responses To Comments On Wind Power
This week, the author takes a little detour from his ongoing series on reliability and maintenance opportunities to discuss feedback regarding his June 11, 2021, article.
Understand The Multi-Function Power Of Lubricants
Lubricants are much more than oil and grease. Today’s engineered products can be tailored to meet many different working situations and ensure asset reliability and long lifecycles.
Why ‘Packaged’ Equipment May Require Upgrading
Although this article is using centrifugal fans and blowers as an example, its advice for reliability-focused end-users is applicable to other types of packaged-equipment systems.
What Really Caused The Deadly Train Collision?
There were several “stated causes” for the 2019 Great Belt Bridge crossing incident in Denmark. But they weren’t the root causes. The author provides some pertinent details.
Leading Indicators For Asset Management: OLE (Overall Lubrication Effectiveness)
Lubrication practices help drive asset reliability. Look to OLE to ensure your site’s lubricants and lube processes are protecting machinery components from performance degradation.
Industrial Housekeeping: A Tier-One Maintenance And Energy Management Strategy
Good housekeeping is an essential component of any maintenance-improvement initiative. Sadly, it’s often ignored as Maintenance and Operations argue over who’s really responsible for it.
Reliability & Maintenance Opportunities: (Part 9) ‘Bigger Picture’ Case Study
This follow-up article continues the discussion of a nagging wind-energy issue and quest for solutions. Original thinking on defects and failures identified as root causes could be changing.
