This white paper introduces a closed-loop reliability model designed to eliminate these blind spots by connecting detection, diagnosis, decision-making, and learning into a continuous system.

Data from PdM programs across mining and aggregates facilities reveals a clear pattern. The following five fault types are the most commonly detected and offer the greatest opportunity to intervene ...

The landscape of professional work is undergoing a fundamental shift, as detailed in the 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft and LinkedIn. AI has transitioned from a futuristic concept ...

What does reliability look like when your assets aren’t bolted to the floor—but hauling 200 tons of ore up a 6% grade? In this episode of Gear Talk, host Wes Cash sits down with Terry Taylor, a ...

Asad Malik is a Senior Manager at Fluke Reliability, leading sales and business development for condition monitoring and alignment products and services. With more than two decades of experience in ...

Roller chain drives are one of the primary systems used in industry to transmit power and convey products. Since roller chain drives are widely used, productivity is highly dependent on the ...

Culture is a set of rules and standards shared by members of an organization, which – when acted upon by the members – produce behavior that falls within a range that the organization considers proper ...

Preventive maintenance is an established routine of periodically inspecting equipment, noticing small issues and fixing them before they turn into major problems. Maintenance crews that practice ...

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 ...

As I conduct assessments at organizations that have made attempts to implement lean manufacturing, I consistently observe similar results. The company has sometimes received assistance from an outside ...

Criticality analysis is defined as the process of assigning assets a criticality rating based on their potential risk of failure. Criticality analysis is defined as the process of assigning assets a ...

The traditional view of operational shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STOs) holds that they are maintenance and engineering events. This simplistic view is held by many organizations. A more ...