Plant shutdowns can cause major business disruptions when they don't go as planned or finish on schedule. Reducing the ...

Maintenance teams are the backbone of industrial operations, yet they often face the stress of unexpected breakdowns, ...

This article is an overview of the findings by John Day's assessment of Alumax of South Carolina. In this aluminum plant, different approaches to maintenance and the philosophical side of maintenance ...

“The Manufacturer of the Year Awards program celebrates the success stories of Wisconsin ’s manufacturing companies,” said Timothy L. Christen, CEO of Virchow, Krause & Company LLP. “Manufacturers are ...

Maintenance operations represent a significant investment in industrial facilities, and this crucial practice can produce substantial benefits for the entire facility through optimization efforts.

While technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), are providing unique opportunities to optimize processes, increase productivity, and ...

Predictive maintenance (PdM) technology allows organizations to continuously track equipment health, detecting early warning ...

Leadership can be considered the ability to influence and provide direction or guidance for others in pursuit of a goal. While several ways of influencing and directing exist, leadership is effective ...

Today, plant assets play a key role in overall enterprise efficiency. That is why manufacturers are turning to reliability-based maintenance (RBM) more and more, using RBM as a strategy to help ...

Maintenance Backlog is a measure of maintenance work that is ready to be done, but has not yet been completed. Backlog may be measured in hours or weeks based on the total capacity of the maintenance ...

In the mid-1980s, United Air Lines produced a commercial that clearly defined the life of an effective troubleshooter. This corporate problem-solver could never return home, bouncing from one ...