In many plants, reliability is treated like a luxury; it’s something to be addressed once the "real work" of fixing ...

Maintenance is fundamentally about sound asset management, and should be regarded as a category of asset management. An important feature of any asset is its ability ...

Preparing for a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) improvement program requires a well-defined process and team-based approach. The foundation of any improvement program is the business assessment ...

If you’re a manufacturing plant manager, what don’t you want to see out to the production floor? Probably a significant number of things, but near the top of that list would probably be a large group ...

As of April, General Motors had about 25% of its 30,000 factory robots connected to the cloud, boosting the automaker's ability to detect and prevent downtime before it occurs. Robots at work are a ...

Power company leaders face mounting challenges in asset management—keeping aging equipment reliable, integrating diverse assets from renewables to baseload units, and meeting strict reliability ...

Despite advanced condition monitoring, many asset failures show no early data signals, making routine visual inspections ...

The purchases add two lubrication-adjacent and one asset performance management platform to Reliability’s portfolio.

The methodologies for managing assets to ensure reliable performance first began to be developed by the airline and power industries and the U.S. military in the 1970s. The methodologies for managing ...

The way machines behave depends on working sites, shifts, climates and duty cycles. Predictive maintenance is precision medicine for machines. It continuously monitors "vital signs," detects ...

Site safety, equipment reliability, and a balanced budget from smooth operations are the cornerstones of a successful power grid. Today’s utility companies face immense challenges with current ...

As part of this ongoing process, we recently surveyed the manufacturing community about applications they have implemented and their plans for acquiring additional functionality over the next three ...