How coolant testing helps identify diesel engine risk before it becomes an overheating event, corrosion problem, or major repair.

While there are numerous success stories applying AI to predictive maintenance, for every success, there may be several ...

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been prevalent in industries such as the financial sector, where algorithms and decision trees have long been used in approving or denying loan requests and ...

Digital transformation and asset performance management (APM) are often presented as strategic imperatives, but many industrial organizations still struggle to translate them into measurable results.

Invented more than 2,000 years ago, threaded fasteners are still the most important detachable hardware used in machinery design and assembly. They can be found on practically any mechanical component ...

Laurel, Md., is now home to one of the world's largest ice cream plants. On October 19, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings Inc. celebrated the completion of a $210 million expansion of its Laurel ...

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 ...

This article discusses an example of an outer race-bearing defect on a 1,250-ton (4,400-kilowatt) air-conditioning chiller. The defect was detected using off-the-shelf portable vibration analysis ...

Quite a bit of confusion exists on the subject of motor circuit analysis. The confusion is centered on two issues: The very name of the technology. What this technology is capable of. This article ...

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 ...

Total productive maintenance (TPM) is the process of using machines, equipment, employees and supporting processes to maintain and improve the integrity of production and the quality of systems.

Maintenance Management is the process of maintaining a company's assets and resources while controlling time and costs, ensuring maximum efficiency of the manufacturing process. Maintenance management ...