U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with Trilla Steel Drum Corporation, located at 2959 W. 47th Street in Chicago, on alleged violations of federal hazardous waste ...

34th President of the United States and U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower is famous for making the paradoxical statement, "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but ...

Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) sounds like the kind of thing we should’ve been doing all along, right? Monitor your assets ...

Criticality analysis is defined as the process of assigning assets a criticality rating based on their potential risk of failure. Read about how to perform a criticality analysis and more.

PPG Industries on May 13 dedicated a new 95,000-square-foot, 22-acre architectural coatings facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, about 15 miles east of Reno, Nev. “This new paint ...

The popularity of ultrasound inspection for maintenance and reliability managers is attributed to ease of use, versatility and low implementation cost. Once considered a companion to core predictive ...

Below we'll discuss how reliability-centered maintenance works, how you should implement it and see how reliability-centered maintenance can benefit you. What Is Reliability-Centered Maintenance?

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that monitors the real-time condition of an asset to determine what maintenance needs to be performed. What Is Condition-based Maintenance?

MTBF is a calculation used to predict the time between failures of a piece of machinery. Below, we'll discuss the MTBF calculation, MTBF traps to be aware of and how to improve your MTBF. What Is MTBF ...

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 ...

Maintenance Management is the process of maintaining a company's assets and resources while controlling time and costs, ensuring maximum efficiency of the manufacturing process.. What Is Maintenance ...

Infrared thermography is the process of using a thermal imager to detect radiation (heat) coming from an object, converting it to temperature and displaying an image of the temperature distribution.