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Troubleshooting Industrial Chain Drives
Chain drives operate through tension engagement, where teeth on both the drive and driven sprockets engage with and pull the chain links.
3D Printed Replacement Parts
How additive manufacturing trends affect the aftermarket.
VIDEO: Asset Management and The MRO World
At the recent Maintenance and Reliability in a Changed…
The New Era of Company Travel and Technology
COVID-19 has brought many changes to the industry, and it looks like many of these changes are going to remain to become the new norms.
Asset Management – How is it Achieved
Asset Management has become a term that is appearing in ever increasing circles.
WMTS live and in-person
For over 30 years, manufacturers in Western Canada have…
How digital pneumatics add fast conversion flexibility to food packaging systems
Coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, artificial sweeteners, non-dairy creamer, even spice mixes, nowadays, and more food items are packaged in small, low-cost sachets for take-out, delivery, or for airline and hospital meal trays.
How Surveillance Solutions Can Keep Food and Beverage Manufacturing at the Forefront of Their Operation
There’s no time for downtime in a food and beverage production facility. No matter the cause, interruptions may have deep financial implications.
Manufacturing Best Practices for Preventive Maintenance
How much preventive maintenance should you be doing?
Slippage of Rolling Elements in Ball and Roller Bearings
There is often a discussion about minimum load in bearings to prevent skidding.
However, the issue is more complex than a simple relationship with the applied load to the bearing.
VIDEO: The Skilled Labour Shortage is a Myth
At the recent Maintenance and Reliability in a Changed…
Canadian Dairy Market Aims for Compliance and Meeting Market Demands, Aided by Hygienic Design Solutions
The Canadian dairy sector was influenced by two major trends in 2020: The COVID-19 crisis and the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA).
OPINION: New 2021 Trends in Food and Beverage Industry Brought by COVID-19
EDITOR’S LETTER from June 2021 issue of Food and Beverage Engineering and Maintenance.
Standardize Maintenance and Ensure Safety and Compliance with a CMMS
One of the most common reasons an organization
with multiple plants and locations implements a computerized maintenance management system
(CMMS) is to standardize maintenance operations
and workflow processes.
EMC – Being Competitive in the Food Industry Today
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC), our Food and Beverage…
Repairs, Service, and Ramping Up After COVID-19
Many companies are struggling to get back to normal as COVID-19 concerns are reduced, then raised again.
VIDEO: Future of Manufacturing
At the recent Maintenance and Reliability in a Changed…
How to Improve Long-term Reliability of Heavy Equipment
The strategies to improve equipment reliability have always been a subject of key interest within the community of reliability engineers.
How to Streamline World Class Maintenance and other Equipment Improvement Activities
There are many equipment improvement programs available for maintenance departments with the purpose of improving equipment reliability. Many of these programs fail to produce the improvements they promise for a number of reasons.
OPINION: Maintenance is all-encompassing
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK (June 2021 issue of MRO Magazine)
Digitalization, Operations Technology, and the Importance of Data Quality
The subject of data quality is not a particularly exciting one, and this is likely why it is often overlooked or just pushed off to the side.
VIDEO: Bearing Lubrication and Health Insights Made Simple
At the recent MRO/DE Expo, the on-demand MRO stream…
VIDEO: Effective Asset Management
Discussion on how effective asset management starts with good assets.
MRO Quiz: Troubleshooting power transmission coupling problems
Power transmission couplings connect two shafts that turn in the same direction on one centerline.
Three principle types exist; rigid, flexible and special purpose.
Lightning Strikes with Electric Ford F-150
Electric vehicles are nothing new, they have been around much longer than many people realize. Innovators who have tried to make electricity work in a vehicle, have usually come up against a number of prohibiting factors, with cost usually being on top, but another major factor being consumer adoption.
Talent Canada Addresses How Organizations Can Overcome Hate and Inspire Societal Change
Talent Canada, a national media brand that looks at…
CanREA’s Operations Summit focuses on flexibility issues
The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) hosted a one-day…
PEMAC’s Lunch and Learn Webcast: Women in Engineering
PEMAC has observed International Women in Engineering Day by…
VIDEO: The Collection and Value of Machine Generated Data
At the recent MRO/DE Expo, the morning keynote was…
VIDEO: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Examples of Great Results and Why Planning and Scheduling Work.