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A reliability engineer can finish the year with a shelf of polished root cause analyses and a...

A plant can run three software go-lives in five years and still schedule its week on a spreadsheet...

A maintenance team can spend two years and a healthy budget on a digital knowledge base and still...

A preventive maintenance (PM) task that has read the same way for thirty years carries a quiet...

A pump that keeps landing on the repair bench looks guilty. It gets pulled, rebuilt, and set back...

A condition monitoring program can detect a developing machine problem and still fail to prevent...

A reliability program can detect problems accurately and still fail to change anything, because...

Reliability program governance exists to steer improvement, yet in many plants it can become a...

Sooner or later, a plant has to confront how to capture tribal knowledge in maintenance, and it...

Walk any plant during a shift change and the real maintenance communication best practices reveal...

The question of how to develop maintenance supervisors usually surfaces the hard way, a few weeks...

In many plants, the annual outage becomes the place where deferred work waits. A leaking valve, a...