Ingredion adopted Tractian condition monitoring to detect failures earlier, protect critical assets, and boost machine uptime. The result: faster decision-making, fewer manual inspections, and major ...

The United States is facing a growing crisis in the skilled trades. Currently, there are more than one million unfilled trade ...

In many industrial environments, reliability is measured in acronyms—OEE, MTBF, PM compliance. These metrics are essential, ...

FMEA is an analytical tool used in the design phase to help mitigate risk and failures during processes. Below we'll discuss the main types of FMEA and how to implement it into your maintenance ...

Learn why condition monitoring data often fails to drive repairs—and how to bridge the gap between predictive maintenance ...

In a manufacturing environment, the many barriers between operations, maintenance, management and non-management personnel can be a real challenge. Here's what the problem often looks like: When ...

The highest pressure situation your maintenance department might ever encounter is a planned downtime. A large amount of work is scheduled into a small amount of time, but the deadline for resuming ...

At the National Thermal Power Corporation’s Sipat plant in India, we are relying on only vibration measurement as a basic technique for condition monitoring of bearings. Sometimes infrared temperature ...

In many industries, employees are required to deal with the many risks involved in working in high places. Most people automatically think of a skyscraper building when considering dangerous ...

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 ...

When a maintenance program is successful, every area of the company is positively affected. Today, top organizations are reaping the benefits from implementing well-designed and managed reliability ...

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.