How to Empower Operators to Evaluate Abnormal Machinery Conditions
Process machines are critical to the profitability of processes. Safe, efficient, and reliable...
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Solving Lubrication Degradation Starts with Asking the Right Why
Can Oil Fail? Within the industry, there has always been a great debate: it is not the oil that...
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Why Reliability Engineering That Ignores Context Will Fail Fast
Reliability is a subordinate topic to industrial and manufacturing engineering that has been...
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Why Shop Floor Training Fails – And How to Build Precision Instead
After more than three decades in industrial engineering and asset management, and having trained...
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How a Maintenance and Engineering Manager Drives Plant Reliability
Reporting to the plant manager, the Maintenance and Engineering Manager ensures continuous,...
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How Frontline Teams Can Systematically Drive Down MTTR in Operations
Downtime is the silent thief of productivity. While many organizations chase improvements in Mean...
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How to Champion Frontline Success for Greater Reliability
A realization that appears to be taking hold in corporate America today is that the answer to...
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Beyond Weibull: Understanding Recurrence Analysis for Repairable Systems
If you’ve spent time analyzing equipment performance data, you’ve likely encountered the Weibull...
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How to Apply the PF Curve for Smarter Preventive Maintenance
There are dozens of interpretations of the PF curve. I wanted to show off my interpretation. They...
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How Communication Drives Reliability and Asset Management Success
In our evolving industrial and production environments, reliability professionals and asset...
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How Ignoring VFD Guidelines Led to Bearings, Belts, and Drive Failures
When we are called out on service calls to test long-term failures in variable-frequency-driven...
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The RCA Interview Method That Builds Trust and Gets Honest Answers
The role of a trusted advisor is similar, whether you serve as the lead for a Root Cause Analysis...
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