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 ...

Starting a new business or venture or launching any new products or service is a risky business. In fact, the statistics would indicate a failure rate far in excess of 90 percent. And of those ...

Creating a maintenance plan is generally not difficult to do. But creating a comprehensive maintenance program that is effective poses some interesting challenges. It would be difficult to appreciate ...

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that monitors the real-time condition of an asset to determine what maintenance needs to be performed. Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is ...

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 ...

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 ...

34th President of the United States and U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower is famous for making the paradoxical statement, "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but ...

At the National Thermal Power Corporation’s Sipat plant in India, we are relying on only vibration measurement as a basic technique for condition monitoring of bearings. Sometimes infrared temperature ...

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 ...