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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Maintenance and Reliability
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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Predictive Maintenance Adoption Rates: What the Surveys Show
Predictive Maintenance Adoption Rates: What the Surveys Show Every vendor selling sensors,...
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Unplanned Downtime Frequency Benchmarks: How Often It Happens
Everyone tracks what downtime costs. Far fewer track how often it happens. And when you go looking...
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PM Compliance Rate Benchmarks: Is 90% the Right Target?
Ask around and you’ll hear the same answer: a good PM compliance rate is 90%. The figure commonly...
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Wrench Time Benchmarks: Typical, Good, and World-Class Rates
Ask ten maintenance managers what “good” wrench time looks like and you’ll get ten answers, most...
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How an RCM Review Exposed Gaps in a Cooling Water Pump Program
When More Maintenance Activity Does Not Mean Better Failure Control In many organizations, when...
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