How to Build a Business Case for Maintenance and Reliability ROI
Calculating Maintenance ROI A business case must be established before any reliability project or...
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Smart Combustion Management: Reducing Costs and Carbon in Industrial Operations
Energy consumption is a significant cost for most manufacturing and process plants. It’s...
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Grid Breaking Point: The True Cost of AI’s Energy Addiction
AI’s explosive growth is placing unprecedented demands on our aging power grid. As energy...
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How to Recognize Basic Gear Fatigue Failure Patterns
Understanding gear fatigue failures begins with mastering the fundamentals of how materials behave...
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Voltage, Veterans, and Victory: Building an Engineering Legacy from Military Roots
In mid-November 1984, I entered the US Navy as a prospective electrician through the Chicago MEPS...
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Maintenance as a Badge of Honor: Cultivating a Culture of Craftsmanship
What is the difference between doing the right job and doing the job right? There is a big...
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Why Your Smartphone is the Most Powerful Tool in Your Maintenance Kit
For many years, the Swiss army knife represented the all-purpose tool well. In time, favor turned...
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Threaded Fasteners: Plant Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices
Have you and your team included threaded-fastener management in your proactive maintenance and...
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Maintenance Measures that Matter: Contextualizing Your KPIs for More Impact
In the world of maintenance, we check and measure many things. We do so primarily to recognize and...
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The $100 Million Maintenance Secret: Energy Excellence is Your New Profit Center
The Maintenance department receives and signs off on all new equipment purchases in a perfect...
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The Reliability Paradox: Why Great Organizations Create Their Crises
Humans are funny. One might assume that the big prize of increased profits and safer, more...
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How to Examine Rolling Element Bearings: Prep for Root Cause Analysis
This will be metallurgy 101 for seasoned analysts but intended for those on the front lines. You...
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