Predictive maintenance is preferred over preventive maintenance for critical assets, but the correct application of advanced analytics is required to realize full value. Power plants of all types have ...

Planning for equipment reliability—rather than accepting equipment failure—affects profitability on both sides of the asset equation. Optimum equipment performance increases revenues, while fewer ...

For utilities companies, success hinges on their ability to prevent equipment failure without wasting valuable time or resources. A strong preventive maintenance process can help them reduce costs, ...

Establishing a solid preventive maintenance (PM) program is the key to getting the most productive use out of your truck and trailer. “A good PM program means you are doing everything you can within ...

Predictive maintenance, like perpetual motion, would be a great idea if it we could make it work. The prospect of predicting when a component might fail so it could be replaced just before it causes ...

Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) is the application of preventive maintenance strategies in an organized and standardized method. Total preventive maintenance is an approach that places the ...

Life is often not as difficult as it seems, and it is a good idea to ratchet back on complexity, keep things simple, and stick to what is important. The input/process/output diagram above helps us do ...

The benefit comes from combining cycle counts and process monitoring data from the historian database instead of relying on hours-based scheduling methods. Manufacturers should move beyond hours-based ...

UPS has just completed an extensive revamp of its preventive maintenance inspection (PMI) process for its 70,000 delivery vehicles, coming up with some pretty notable results. Not that the previous ...