Predictive Maintenance Won’t Save You if Your Culture Is Already Broken
A vibration sensor can see a failing bearing three weeks out. It can’t see a foreman who...
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Predictive Maintenance
Why Your Reliability Program Failed Before It Even Got Started
The Problem Starts Before Day One You’ve seen it happen. A plant launches a reliability...
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How Electrical Diagnostics Solved a Turbo Generator Mystery
A 55 MVA, 13.8 kV steam turbine generator presented a persistent and costly problem: repeated...
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Failure Time Frames Help Maintenance Teams Plan and Save Resources
For decades, the debate over how people report their machine findings when using different...
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Stop Setting Condition Monitoring Alarm Thresholds and Forgetting Them
The “install and wait” approach to condition monitoring is a classic trap....
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Why the Best Condition Monitoring Programs Use Fewer Sensor Types
Walk through any plant with a mature condition monitoring program, and you’ll see the evidence of...
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How a Single Plant Walk-Down Can Fund Your Entire Maintenance Budget
Every maintenance manager has had the same conversation with finance at least once. You need a new...
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From Condition Monitoring to Smart Decisions: The New Maintenance Era
It seems society is going somewhere. Consumer products and applications are blazing a trail with...
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Reliability Improves When We Trust the Technology and the Experts
A fault identified on a 1250HP electric motor showed that while we have proven technologies at our...
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Closing the PdM-Execution Gap With a Reliable 4–6 Week T-4 Schedule Model
Most plants now own the tools of modern condition monitoring: vibration routes, infrared cameras,...
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How Reliability-Centered Motor Management Supports Better Maintenance Decisions
The accelerating evolution of condition monitoring tools has made a structured,...
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Early Failure Detection: What Plants Get Wrong About the P-F Curve
Early failure detection should be straightforward. Every degradation mechanism creates detectable...
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