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The 34th president of the United States and an American army general, Dwight D. Eisenhower is famous for making the paradoxical statement, "In preparing for battle, I have always found that …

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 …

When a maintenance program is successful, every area of the company is positively affected. Today, top organizations are reaping the benefits from implementing well-designed and …

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 …

Tenneco Inc. on October 29 announced a major restructuring across its global operations designed to further reduce structural costs and capacity in response to the worsening industry …

Root cause analysis (RCA) is a structured, systematic approach to identifying why problems or failures occur. Rather than merely addressing the immediate symptoms of a problem, RCA …

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Another way to look at it is 3,000 bottles / 60 bottles per minute = 50 minutes lost quality. So, to calculate the overall equipment effectiveness (Availability x Performance x Quality = OEE), …

FMEA is an analytical tool used in the design phase to help mitigate risk and failures during processes. Read about the main types of FMEA and learn how to implement it.