Since the beginning of time, human beings have survived and evolved through the use of tools. Tool usage is the basis for both ancient and modern engineering advances.

Asset Condition Management

Energy Industry Risk Assessment: Current Practices and Elements

Gobind Khiani

As the North American oil and gas infrastructure ages, changes made to facilities during their lifetime may not have been transferred to the official recorded drawings of the facilities.

What You Can Do If Your Reliability Program Isn’t Meeting Performance Goals

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliability strategy improvement

Jason Apps

The system and associated work execution management (WEM) process was meant to improve the performance of assets, but failures keep occurring at a cost to your business.

Work Execution Management

PM Optimization: Challenge and Transform Your PM Strategy

Mark Munion

The primary objective of maintenance is to provide the maximum availability and efficiency of company assets throughout their expected life cycles at the lowest possible cost.

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Asset Management

The Latest Technology for Asset Management in Oil & Gas

Malcolm J. Werner

For owner-operators of oil, gas and chemical companies, mechanical integrity (MI) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) are pivotal components of any comprehensive asset management (AM) program.

Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Who Will Benefit from Maintenance 4.0 Adoption?

Deddy Lavid

This article explores whether the benefits of Maintenance 4.0 will be disproportionately spread and how this will impact the industrial sector.

Asset Management

Practice What You Preach with Your Equipment Support Systems: It’s FREE Money

Mark Pipher

More than 40 percent of the allocated electrical costs in an industrial environment is attributed to equipment support systems, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), compressed air, chilled water, boilers, and more. While equipment optimization and visibility are often things that many facility managers take great care in providing, it is not as often considered for these support systems, which product line equipment often depends on to maximize uptime.

Leadership for Reliability

Simulation Training to Digitally Develop the Next Manufacturing Workforce

Debra Schug

With automation and artificial intelligence changing the nature of manufacturing work, many of the skills necessary to operate the plants of the future will be completely changing in the next decade.

Asset Condition Management

The Path to Lubrication Reliability

Chris Tindell

Two wrongs don’t make a right. This proverb states that repaying a wrong deed with another wrong deed doesn’t justify a wrong action. However, can five rights make a wrong? The phrase,“the five rights of lubrication,” has earned its place in the dogma of reliability slogans and buzz words.

Work Execution Management

Reducing Vibration Through Precision

Phil Hendrix

Reducing vibration no doubt reduces fatigue and failure, as proven by Dr. Wernher von Braun and leading reliability engineering schools, therefore increasing a component’s life span.

Leadership for Reliability

Q & A with Tracey Richardson

Tracey is passionate about assisting organizations who are on the “lean learning journey.” With over 31 years of experience in Toyota methodologies, Tracey supports companies by implementing key elements for success.

Asset Condition Management

Featured Reliability Leader: Jack Nicholas, Jr.

Sitting in the back of a crowded room at a conference of 300+ motor testing professionals in the mid-90s, I listened to an impressive presentation from a former submariner who served on the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the U.S. Navy fleet. That man was Jack Nicholas, Jr.

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