Troubleshooting is a career path that can provide personal fulfillment and improve the lives of hundreds of facility workers.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) technology allows organizations to continuously track equipment health, detecting early warning ...

This article is an overview of the findings by John Day's assessment of Alumax of South Carolina. In this aluminum plant, different approaches to maintenance and the philosophical side of maintenance ...

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 ...

Maintenance operations represent a significant investment in industrial facilities, and this crucial practice can produce substantial benefits for the entire facility through optimization efforts.

In today's fast-paced business environment, accurate and validated asset information is essential for efficient operations and sound decision-making. This article highlights the importance of asset ...

Leadership can be considered the ability to influence and provide direction or guidance for others in pursuit of a goal. While several ways of influencing and directing exist, leadership is effective ...

Misalignment of an asset happens, and everyone has their method, process, and belief on how to resolve it. At that point, industry standards and proven techniques take a back seat to partial training ...

Maintenance teams are the backbone of industrial operations, yet they often face the stress of unexpected breakdowns, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Things break. No matter what you do, there is always a chance that products will fail. The same holds true for bearings, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t prevent many of the issues that result in ...