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Preventative Maintenance
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Retirement Day – Developing asset renewal strategies
Industry tends to stick with ingrained misconceptions on asset renewals. Commonly held statements, such as “haul trucks last 20 years” or “plants are designed for a 30-year lifespan” persist. But misconceptions pose risks. A renewal program enables an organization to manage the final lifecycle phase of assets in a proactive way
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Machine learning technology make legacy assets smarter
Automate machine learning by creating a data pipeline from legacy equipment.
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Motion Industries opens new distribution centre
Birmingham, AL – Motion Industries, Inc., a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, has opened the doors for business at its new distribution center (DC) at 4401 D…
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Allow maintenance to break schedules and watch productivity increase
Why maintenance completes more work when it starts with the right goal.
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In good health – innovative applications for machine-learning tools
The application of machine-learning techniques is far-reaching. One industrial engineer takes asset performance improvement services off the beaten path.
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MRO Supply Chain – using digitalization to streamline processes and decision-making
Sada Haque says that the journey to become pioneers in our business objectives will greatly depend upon data-driven strategies, rather than gut feelings.
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Data as a practical problem solver
Maintenance optimization and reliability engineering in the age of digitalization.
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The role of reactive maintenance in your overall maintenance strategy
When it comes to choosing a maintenance strategy for your assets, it would be somewhat myopic to assume a rigid one-size-fits-all approach. Historically, businesses have relied more on reactive maintenance (also called run-to-failure or breakdown maintenance). However, to keep up…
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Address the skills gap by designing the training opportunity from scratch
Roy F. Huetl knows firsthand that the best way to learn something is to do it. It’s a mantra that the York Region Director of Operations, Maintenance and Monitoring, Environmental Services, has revisited many times over his 35 years spent…
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Wrench Time – How to improve maintenance productivity
Wrench time explains why a company can get a 50 per cent boost in maintenance productivity! That means a good workforce completing 1,000 work orders each month could become a superior workforce completing 1,500 work orders per month, for free!…
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Fluke Corporation names new president of Fluke Digital Systems
Everett, Wash. – Fluke Corporation has named David O’Reilly President of Fluke Digital Systems (FDS), the business unit that manages the Fluke Accelix ecosystem of connected tools and solutions which includes Fluke Sensors, eMaint CMMS, and SCHAD Mobile Work Management…
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Bentley Systems announces Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference
Exton, Pa. — Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced that the Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference will be held October 15 – 18 in London at the Hilton London Metropole.…
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Thermal imaging and ultrasonic testing are important tools in your PM program.
A well-executed preventative maintenance program is the cornerstone of every plant’s asset management strategy. Ensuring that equipment is regularly serviced and tested helps mitigate the likelihood of an unexpected failure and associated downtime. While a number of plant systems and…
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Suncor says Syncrude maintenance turnaround planned for April to start early
Calgary – Suncor Energy Inc. says an eight-week maintenance project at Syncrude that had been scheduled to begin in April will start Thursday. The company says advancing the turnaround will permit Syncrude to deal with an unrelated issue which has…
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The Maintenance Engineer’s Guide to Industrial Actuators
Actuators provide the push and pull of industrial automation. If something is moving on the plant floor, odds are good that an actuator is involved. Actuators vary according to the type of energy that drives them, with electromechanical, hydraulic and…
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Using virtual reality to train industrial workforce
Houston – Honeywell announced a cloud-based simulation tool that uses a combination of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to train plant personnel on critical industrial work activities. With as much as 50 percent of industrial plant personnel due…
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Time has come for national big data strategy, tech leaders tell governments
Ottawa – Tech leaders are challenging the federal Liberal government to get serious about reaping the rewards of one of the next big frontiers in the information revolution: big data. Canadian CEOs and academics have been pushing Ottawa for months…
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Government takes another step to ban asbestos with new, proposed rules
Ottawa – The federal government has laid out a tough set of proposed new regulations to prohibit the use, sale, import and export of asbestos and products that contain it, as well as the manufacture of products containing the cancer-causing…
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Adoption of IIoT-based smart bearings spurs growth of European bearings market
London – The European bearings market is witnessing steady growth. Factors stimulating growth include the adoption of sophisticated bearings with improved performance and demand for bearings with longer service life, higher efficiency and lower maintenance requirements. On the other hand,…
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Manage failure – Integrate CBM information to optimize decision support
The Situation A bearing fault! With gear noise! Okay, this is bad and it’s on a large planetary gear set. I quickly (well, quickly for someone relatively new to vibration) put together a report showing the issue. This was one…
