Reliable Plant July 2005

Whirlpool Corporation runs in familiar circles. Mechanically, the inner workings of this company’s dishwashers and washing machines twirl around water and detergent to clean up your cooking and...

As manufacturers continuously look for ways to enhance profits, they are focusing on asset management initiatives to maximize business efficiency and boost the bottom line. Return on net...

Experience tells us that when electric motors fail and must be rebuilt, possible non-bearing causes abound. These can include winding, wiring, grease or seal failures, which, in turn, may result in...

The old expression is that death and taxes are the only certainties in life. Some suggest that the same applies to machinery. We know that if a machine generates a profit, taxes are levied on that...

For years, maintenance has been treated as a dirty, boring and ad hoc job. It’s critical for productivity but isn’t recognized as a key component of revenue generation. The simple question is...

Reliability is often used by plants to define future improvement efforts and set expectations for employees and managers. In several recently written mission statements, I’ve seen expressions...

Although planning and scheduling is somewhat of an intricate process that we will spend future issues of Reliable Plant examining and discussing, I wanted to spend this very first issue going...

Five Stages of Grief Denial: “This isn’t happening.” – Yes it is. Bargaining: “Just let me last through my own retirement.” – Nice try. Anger: “I hate my job.” – Let it all...

More than 1,200 industry professionals attended Noria Corporation’s 2005 Lubrication Excellence and Reliability World conference and exposition, held April 25-29 at the Henry Gonzalez Convention...

A pair of century-old Milwaukee industrial firms will become one after 114-year-old Rexnord Corp. recently agreed to buy 113-year-old Falk Corp. for $295 million. The transaction is expected to be...

In the Reliability Forum department of Reliable Plant, suppliers provide their insights to a question posed by editor Paul V. Arnold. This issue, the question went out to bearing manufacturers:...

The Reliability in Action department features case studies submitted by our readers. To have your case study considered for inclusion in an upcoming issue, e-mail it to parnold@noria.com or mail it to...

Safety – one of the keys to becoming a productive and reliable plant - continues to improve at American workplaces. Data collected and analyzed by the United States Department of Labor’s Bureau of...

When reporting verbally or in writing on the results of an accident investigation, it's tempting to sum up the cause as "carelessness." This indicates that the accident probably could have been...

As a plant reliability management instructor and consultant, I’m commonly asked to share my views about equipment operators performing maintenance. Call it Total Productive Maintenance,...