Goldilocks is all about finding the balance that’s “just right.” Whether it’s porridge that’s too hot or too cold, a chair ...

AssetWatch, Inc., the fast-growing leader of end-to-end predictive maintenance and condition monitoring solutions, today ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the week ending January 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims was 467,000, a decrease of 24,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 491,000, the U.S.

Unplanned downtime has been the nemesis of manufacturing since the very beginning. Now, with the push toward a smarter, more ...

By understanding the foundations of RCM, the benefits and potential challenges of this approach, and what is required for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Infrared thermography is the process of using a thermal imager to detect radiation (heat) coming from an object, converting it to temperature and displaying an image of the temperature distribution.

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is the premier standard for measuring manufacturing productivity. Read about how to calculate OEE, the six big losses, OEE benefits and more. What is Overall ...

More and more plants have goals focused toward extending the mean time between repairs (MTBR) for their rotating equipment, which includes centrifugal pumps for use in petroleum, petrochemical and ...