This white paper introduces a closed-loop reliability model designed to eliminate these blind spots by connecting detection, ...

Data from PdM programs across mining and aggregates facilities reveals a clear pattern. The following five fault types are the most commonly detected and offer the greatest opportunity to intervene ...

The landscape of professional work is undergoing a fundamental shift, as detailed in the 2024 Work Trend Index Annual ...

What does reliability look like when your assets aren’t bolted to the floor—but hauling 200 tons of ore up a 6% grade? In this episode of Gear Talk, host Wes Cash sits down with Terry Taylor, a ...

Asad Malik is a Senior Manager at Fluke Reliability, leading sales and business development for condition monitoring and alignment products and services. With more than two decades of experience in ...

Manufacturing and distribution companies must concentrate on keeping costs under control, since they operate in an industry with very slim margins. As a result, they often spend a great deal of time ...

There are a variety of failure analysis and problem-solving methods used to analyze equipment and process failures. The different methods are described and compared so maintenance and reliability ...

Maintenance Management is the process of maintaining a company's assets and resources while controlling time and costs, ensuring maximum efficiency of the manufacturing process. Maintenance management ...

Starting a new business or venture or launching any new products or service is a risky business. In fact, the statistics would indicate a failure rate far in excess of 90 percent. And of those ...

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 ...

This article discusses an example of an outer race-bearing defect on a 1,250-ton (4,400-kilowatt) air-conditioning chiller. The defect was detected using off-the-shelf portable vibration analysis ...

Kaizen events are traditionally short-term brainstorming and implementation sessions intended to improve an existing process. Employees, managers and even C-level owners get together to map out ...