Many teams are impressed by the number of tools available today that claim to be able to improve their reliability. Sensors, ...

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Airgas Inc. announced that effective April 1, or as contracts permit, its operating units will increase prices on packaged and bulk gases, and other products. Prices will increase, on average, as ...

What Is Root Cause Analysis? Root cause analysis (RCA) is defined as a systematic process for identifying the root causes of problems or events and an action plan for responding to them. Many ...

Many companies have recently implemented reliability initiatives geared toward optimizing the maintenance function at their plants. Some are successful; however, most will admit they did not realize ...

Dick Cole, the vice president of operations for Karl Schmidt Unisia, calls the company's plant in Marinette, Wis., "the most diverse piston facility in the world." He offers a variety of reasons for ...

For those of you who want to indulge in the details of setting preventive maintenance (PM) inspections, let’s begin with defining what I mean by inspections. Inspections include all objective ...

Many experts working in the field of vibration analysis will agree that resonance is a very common cause of excessive machine vibration. Resonance is the result of an external force vibrating at the ...

34th President of the United States and U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower is famous for making the paradoxical statement, "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but ...

MTTR is a metric used by maintenance departments to measure the average time needed to determine the cause of and fix failed equipment. Anytime you see the phrase "mean time to," it means you're ...

Look no further than the USA basketball team during the world championships in 2006. With a super successful coaching staff and a team full of National Basketball Association stars (12 to be exact), ...

Lean manufacturing or “going lean,” refers to a series of methods, philosophies and tools to minimize waste in your business and maximize production. Read about different ways your company can go lean ...