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 ...

Whether your plant produces food, paper, vehicles or electricity, your business relies on various types of equipment. From a problem with the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system to ...

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

The Reliable Plant 2025 Conference & Exhibition, held June 2-5 at the Schaumburg Convention Center near Chicago, Illinois, took attendees on an exciting journey along the "Route to Reliability." ...

Today, plant assets play a key role in overall enterprise efficiency. That is why manufacturers are turning to reliability-based maintenance (RBM) more and more, using RBM as a strategy to help ...

The vision of general management was that the new smelter located on the Mt. Holly Plantation near Charleston, S.C., would begin operations with a planned maintenance system that could be developed ...

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.

A well-known saying attributed to Benjamin Franklin states, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Anyone who has worked in a maintenance organization that runs from one crisis to the next knows this ...

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 is the use of a mechanism or device that helps an equipment operator avoid mistakes. Check out how to implement poka-yoke, see poka-yoke examples and more.

A maintenance program is only as good as its measurement data. Poor data may be worse than no data at all because poor data may lead to the wrong analysis, resulting in working on the wrong thing. One ...