How to Build and Keep a Strong Maintenance Team
Maintenance and engineering managers face a host of personnel challenges these days, including the...
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Washdown Leaves a Handoff Hazard Your Pre-Op Checklist Skips
Sanitation signs off at 5:40. Production starts at 6:00. Somewhere in those 20 minutes, an...
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How Better Data Can Support More Reliable Turnaround Cost Predictions
Cost estimates shape decisions long before a shutdown begins. They influence funding, contracting,...
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The Reliable Method Explores What Separates the Best Plants from the Rest
Reliable Group announces the release of The Reliable Method: What Separates the Best Plants from...
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What Motor Current and Vibration Reveal About Machine Condition
A motor current spectrum and a vibration spectrum may point to the same machine problem while...
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The Cost of Lost Plant Knowledge: What Walks Out When Your Experts Retire
One in four people working in U.S. manufacturing is 55 or older. In 2025, 3.82 million of the...
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The Real Cost of Poor Quality: Scrap, Rework, and Returns (2026 data)
Every plant makes scrap. Most plants can tell you the weight in the bin. Almost none can tell you...
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How Reliability Professionals Drive ESG Value Across the Asset Lifecycle
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been in several conversations about the recent forest fires sending...
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Why Refineries Keep Bleeding Money on Flange Rework
Somewhere in your last turnaround, a joint got broken, worked, and buttoned up. Weeks later...
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How Maintenance Earns and Loses the Trust of Production
Walk into almost any manufacturing facility and you’ll eventually hear someone say,...
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Chemical Plant Walking Surfaces: The Hazard That Hides in Plain Sight
Ask a chemical plant safety manager to name their biggest hazard and you’ll hear about...
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Why Reliability Leaders Never Get the Budget They Want
Walk into almost any maintenance office and you’ll hear a familiar conversation. “We...
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