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January 2025
Featured Article
While technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), are providing unique opportunities to optimize processes, increase productivity, and take reliability processes to the next level, these complex systems often demand a highly skilled and adaptable workforce to properly utilize them.
Performance measurement is a fundamental principle of management. Performance measurement is crucial because it identifies gaps between the current and desired performance and indicates progress toward closing the gaps. Carefully selected Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) identify precisely where to take action to improve performance.
On this episode of Gear Talk, Wes Cash sits down with special guest Mina Soliman, CEO of Prime Gear and Noria Regional Technical Consultant, to talk about the state of reliability in the Middle East and the crucial role failure analysis is playing in creating world-class facilities.
It is essential to understand that individual leadership styles suit situations differently, and some are more effective in certain instances than others. This is why it is necessary for a leader to learn other leadership styles and apply the different approaches as required.
It’s likely that a maintenance organization – even your maintenance organization – is highly reactive in nature, and the root cause is that there really isn’t a plan not to be reactive. If your maintenance and reliability effort is not in concert and accordance with a pragmatic and well-designed strategy, you are by default, reactive.
Maintenance departments have a tendency to be like water in that they all tend to flow toward the lowest level of effectiveness – purely reactive. Discover the contributing factors that exacerbate this continuous downward pressure on maintenance performance along with several significant causes.
Motor testing assesses the integrity of a motor through the use of computer-supported equipment or tools that monitor trends within the motor.
