Does 80% of Downtime Come From 20% of Assets? Tracing the Claim
You’ve heard it in every reliability pitch deck, bad-actor program kickoff, and CMMS demo:...
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Maintenance and Reliability
Preventive Maintenance for Electric Motors: What Actually Works
Electric motors drive somewhere around two-thirds of the electricity used in industrial plants....
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How to Kill a Bad PM Without Getting Blamed for the Next Failure
Every maintenance leader knows at least one PM that shouldn’t exist. The monthly route that...
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How a Neglected MRO Storeroom Drains Reliability One Part at a Time
Walk into most plants and the storeroom looks like an afterthought. Shelves half labeled. Bins...
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Prescriptive Maintenance: What’s Real and What’s Marketing
Ask a vendor and prescriptive maintenance is already here: AI that not only sees a failure coming...
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Industrial Energy Waste from Poor Maintenance: A Breakdown
Three systems quietly waste energy in many industrial facilities, and most teams can’t tell you...
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Manufacturing Maintenance Skills Gap Statistics: What Holds Up
The manufacturing skills gap has a small set of numbers that get quoted everywhere. 2.1 million...
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Digital Transformation Must Connect Work, Not Reinforce Silos
The Digital Transformation Paradox Over the past two decades, industrial organizations have...
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The Dangerous Gap Between Maintenance Standards and Daily Execution
A maintenance procedure can be technically perfect and still produce bad work. The torque values...
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How to Improve Preventive Maintenance Programs in 6 Steps
Most of us would probably say that our preventive maintenance programs could use some work. But...
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Detecting Eddy Current Hotspots with Infrared Thermography
Reliability and availability are fundamental objectives for electrical substations and industrial...
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Electrical Equipment Failure Rate Benchmarks and Their Limits
Ask how often an industrial transformer or circuit breaker fails, and you’ll get a confident...
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