Preparing for a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) improvement program requires a well-defined process and team-based approach. The foundation of any improvement program is the business assessment ...

Maintenance is fundamentally about sound asset management, and should be regarded as a category of asset management. An important feature of any asset is its ability ...

The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) has issued “Reliability Centered Maintenance: A Case Study of Railway Transit Maintenance to Achieve Optimal Performance.” The research report, available at ...

Reliability centered maintenance has helped increase throughput at Portola Packaging, a manufacturer of plastic closures and containers for the food and beverage industry. Maintenance is not typically ...

Delivering a clear, scalable, functional reliability plan can be a daunting task, and organizations often stumble in getting reliability programs off the ground. The starts and stops of a ...

When a global medical device company needed help setting up a reliability program, Marie Getsug was up for the task. As a program manager of strategic consulting for asset management at Jacobs ...

“Asset utilization, also called Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or equipment capacity, is not just the responsibility of one department. It is the responsibility of the entire company. It has ...

Pressures on utilities to improve plant performance and profitability have always been present and have increased over time. But trends in recent years have intensified those pressures. Machinery ...

Last year in this department, we ran a three-part series on “Competitive Maintenance Strategies” (March, April, and May 2010, available in our archives at https://www.powermag.com). We began that ...

Installation of the cable system of the El Bosque line. The number of extra-high-voltage alternating-current (AC) underground cable systems installed in Colombia has grown rapidly. And Interconexión ...

Amid overlapping global crises and countless marketplace upheavals, companies from every sector are looking to shore up their operations against future disruptions. Industry insiders have long seen ...

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