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Plant Managers Who Skip the Floor Are Managing With Their Eyes Closed

The Conference Room Trap Plant managers are busy. Budget reviews, safety committee meetings,...

The capital appropriation process is not designed to move fast. It’s designed to justify...

In every production facility, failures eventually occur. Pumps fail. Gearboxes overheat. Bearings...

The Conference Room Trap Plant managers are busy. Budget reviews, safety committee meetings,...

For decades, the debate over how people report their machine findings when using different...

Preventive Maintenance (PM), as a process, has been around as long as the wheel. When something —...

The “install and wait” approach to condition monitoring is a classic trap....

Walk through any plant with a mature condition monitoring program, and you’ll see the evidence of...

I co-authored an entire chapter on the reliability engineer position description in Rules of Thumb...

You’ve been asking for budget. You’ve sent emails with subject lines like “Reliability Improvement...

Turnarounds are expensive. Every hour of downtime costs money, and every task on the punch list...