Preparing for a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) improvement program requires a well-defined process and team-based approach. The foundation of any improvement program is the business assessment ...

Reliability centered maintenance has helped increase throughput at Portola Packaging, a manufacturer of plastic closures and containers for the food and beverage industry. Maintenance is not typically ...

Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), total productive maintenance (TPM), and risk-based inspection (RBI) were the buzz words of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) Maintenance ...

Delivering a clear, scalable, functional reliability plan can be a daunting task, and organizations often stumble in getting reliability programs off the ground. The starts and stops of a ...

Many consultants are prospering today by creating "new" maintenance strategies. What they’re really creating is new buzzwords. At a recent conference, for example, speakers debated the pros and cons ...

When a global medical device company needed help setting up a reliability program, Marie Getsug was up for the task. As a program manager of strategic consulting for asset management at Jacobs ...

Maintenance is fundamentally about sound asset management, and should be regarded as a category of asset management. An important feature of any asset is its ability ...

When switchgear malfunctions, the consequences are often catastrophic. Damage to the switchgear itself can be extremely expensive, but that pales in comparison to corollary damage and the potential ...

Time-based maintenance programs preserve the equipment but usually not its function, and they do not mitigate equipment failure for the balance of a machine's life cycle. Many pharmaceutical companies ...