Is Your Business A Great Place to Work?
Despite what managers throughout industry might be banking on, the job of attracting and retaining highly skilled workers won’t necessarily be any easier as the economy recovers from COVID-19 than it was in pre-pandemic times.
Extrapolations Can Have Unexpected Consequences
In the author’s view, serious inefficiencies and backward thinking still exist in some of today’s plants and facilities. Out-of-the-box thinking could serve those operations well when it comes to implementing lasting reliability improvements.
Strengthened Tank-Inventory Solution
Honeywell’s upgraded ENTIS system is aimed at driving safer, more profitable oil-storage terminal operations.
Splitting Hairs Is Dangerous
Stop with the word games and arguments over semantics. RAM professionals have plenty of other ways to spend their valuable time, including, among them, making sure tragic history doesn’t repeat itself in today’s plants and facilities.
Active Coaching: Key to A Defect-Avoidance Culture
How often has your organization tried to implement an improved process, only to revert to its old “business as usual” mode? Changing that dynamic requires altering the vector of psychological inertia within personnel at the site.
Making U.S. Manufacturing S.M.A.R.T.
Among the painful lessons we’re learning from the COVID-19 crisis are not to take our global supply chains for granted and to rethink the risky strategies that put so many of our critical ‘eggs’ in so few supply-side ‘baskets.’
Planning for Failure and Its Investigation
Consider the step-by-step Failure Scene Investigation (FSI ) approach to dealing with equipment issues. Less onerous and expensive than an RCM program, the FSI method can be employed by any maintenance department.
Why Do We Write These Columns and Articles?
Wherever there are people and machines, equipment and technologies, processes and systems, there’s an inherent need for reliable operation. To that end, there’s also a need for information that goes beyond the academic and theoretical.
Portable, Oil-Free Screw Compressor Delivers
Kaeser Compressors’ M500-2 is rarin’ to go wherever, whenever in heavy-industrial, processing, and manufacturing ops.
Regarding Reliability of Large Electric Motors: How The Studies Applied to Larger Motors
In this third part of his ongoing series, the author focuses on what the findings of widely cited motor studies by EPRI and IEEE revealed with regard to maintenance practices for larger machines.
