John and I will explore and clarify the challenges facing maintenance and reliability professionals considering wireless ...

It stands to reason—the more complex an enterprise’s operations, the more intricate the facility that must house it.

This is a question we hear a lot when we are on site at plants, mills and mines around the world. The short answer to this question is that you have to use your experience and common sense supported ...

This whitepaper explores why grease delivery verification is the missing link in HME reliability—and how mining operations ...

COLUMBUS, OHIO – April 30, 2025 – AssetWatch, Inc., the fast-growing leader of end-to-end predictive maintenance and condition monitoring solutions, today announced the close of its Series C funding ...

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 ...

Vibration analysis helps you monitor and detect issues using vibration data. Read about vibration analysis methodology, tools and techniques, vibration analysis measurement methods, and more.

Managing a work order backlog is not the most exciting of maintenance tasks, but without a complete and up-to-date backlog, important work will be forgotten. Indeed, good backlog management is a ...

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 ...

Poka-yoke (pronounced PO-ka yo-KAY) is the use of a mechanism or device that helps an equipment operator (or anyone) avoid mistakes. In Japanese, poka-yoke translates ...

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.

The 5 Whys tool is the straightforward process of asking "why?" in an interrogative fashion to get to the root cause of a specific problem. Read about when and how to use 5 Whys, see 5 Whys examples ...