In modern industry, where machinery often represents the largest share of capital investment, understanding the real economic ...

For more than half a century, oil analysis laboratories have been the backbone of industrial reliability programs. From ...

Lubrication is unique: it involves frequent, repetitive tasks across many points, requires precise procedures, and often happens on rotating shifts or across multiple sites. Without clear ...

January 30, 2023 – Nikola Labs, Inc., the leading condition monitoring and proactive maintenance organization, announced today its new name AssetWatch® and new website assetwatch.com as a part of its ...

There are a variety of failure analysis and problem-solving methods used to analyze equipment and process failures. The different methods are described and compared so maintenance and reliability ...

MCSA is simply the process by which motor current readings are recorded and analyzed in the frequency domain. It has been around since 1985 and proven itself well over the years in locating rotor ...

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 ...

Until all motors are designed with built-in bearing protection, plant maintenance personnel and motor repair shops will continue to replace damaged bearings. But if a motor's bearing problem is fixed ...

The words in the title of this article, which were spoken by Taiichi Ohno, have been one of his most popular and well-known sayings within our lean community. Typically, we use his famous words to ...

Workplace safety standards continue to improve each year; however, today’s workplace, especially within a warehouse, can still include dangerous environments with many potential hazards and associated ...

What is a Fishbone Diagram? A fishbone diagram is a cause-and-effect discovery tool that helps figure out the reason(s) for defects, variations or failures within a process. In other words, it helps ...

The highest pressure situation your maintenance department might ever encounter is a planned downtime. A large amount of work is scheduled into a small amount of time, but the deadline for resuming ...