As maintenance teams work to reduce downtime, increase reliability, and support more sustainable operations, traditional oil ...

In this interview, Lisa Williams explains how AI is transforming oil analysis from reactive monitoring to predictive forecasting. Learn how TruVu360™ Fluid IQ uses historical oil data to optimize ...

Alternating-current (AC) and direct-current (DC) motors have traditionally served distinctly different applications due to their construction and inherent operating characteristics. In general, AC ...

"We don't have a safety culture." This is the lament of every frustrated environment, health and safety (EHS) officer who is trying to reduce injuries while fighting unsafe attitudes every step of the ...

The joke, "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good," may not be totally off the mark in the workplace. On five different surveys given in different years, to ...

As I conduct assessments at organizations that have made attempts to implement lean manufacturing, I consistently observe similar results. The company has sometimes received assistance from an outside ...

MTTR is a metric used by maintenance departments to measure the average time needed to determine the cause of and fix failed equipment. Anytime you see the phrase "mean time to," it means you're ...

Criticality analysis is defined as the process of assigning assets a criticality rating based on their potential risk of failure. Criticality analysis is defined as the process of assigning assets a ...

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 ...

The application of lean principles is spreading to nearly every type of business and industry. There is literally no place, function or operation that could not benefit from lean enterprise. Research ...

Total productive maintenance (TPM) is the process of using machines, equipment, employees and supporting processes to maintain and improve the integrity of production and the quality of systems.

The workplace can be dangerous, even more so in an industrial environment. Numerous factors can cause accidents, ranging from overexertion to mishandling of hazardous materials. There are also a ...