Maintenance can be made more efficient, helping make operations more efficient and profitable, by leveraging new digital technologies. Conventional time-based preventive maintenance (PM) is widely ...

Preventative maintenance refers to tasks that maintain assets on a regular basis to optimize performance and prevent unexpected breakdowns that could push up asset tracking costs. Depending on the ...

Planning for equipment reliability—rather than accepting equipment failure—affects profitability on both sides of the asset equation. Optimum equipment performance increases revenues, while fewer ...

In this practical resource, a veteran service and repair professional with decades of hands-on experience walks you through the preventive maintenance process for residential and commercial HVAC and ...

For utilities companies, success hinges on their ability to prevent equipment failure without wasting valuable time or resources. A strong preventive maintenance process can help them reduce costs, ...

A healthy fleet is the key to a thriving logistics business. And you can’t keep a healthy fleet without regular vehicle maintenance. But with a few different types of maintenance at your disposal, ...

Predictive maintenance, based on more and better sensor data from semiconductor manufacturing equipment, can reduce downtime in the fab and ultimately cut costs compared with regularly scheduled ...

The benefit comes from combining cycle counts and process monitoring data from the historian database instead of relying on hours-based scheduling methods. Manufacturers should move beyond hours-based ...

The digital universe is growing by 40 per cent each year, set to reach 44 trillion GB in 2020, with enterprises responsibile for around 85 per cent of this data. Manufacturing plants are just one type ...

Predictive maintenance, like perpetual motion, would be a great idea if it we could make it work. The prospect of predicting when a component might fail so it could be replaced just before it causes ...