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The Great Disconnect: Americans Don’t Understand Modern Manufacturing and They Should
Leadership for Reliability

The Great Disconnect: Americans Don’t Understand Modern Manufacturing and They Should

Many Americans believe that American manufacturing is a relic of the past,  rusting abandoned profession where weary men and women drudge through the day performing a single task for hours on end.

The Hidden Front Line of Cyberattacks: Industrial Control Systems
Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

The Hidden Front Line of Cyberattacks: Industrial Control Systems

It’s a quiet December afternoon in 2015. In the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine, workers are preparing to finish their day and make their way home into a cold night. Inside the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center, which distributes power to the region’s residents, operators are nearing the end of their shift. Suddenly, an unprecedented series of cyberattacks takes place as they watch in amazement. The attacks eventually knock out parts of Ukraine’s electric grid, thus cutting the power to nearly a quarter of a million residences.

Moving Down a Reliability Continuum in Pursuit of Excellence
Leadership for Reliability

Moving Down a Reliability Continuum in Pursuit of Excellence

Southern Gardens has embarked on a journey in pursuit of achieving excellence in reliability. The key is perseverance because the road is often bumpy. Continuous improvement moves you down the continuum, so when you think you are at the end, you realize there is always room for improvement.

Why Machine Learning and AI Are the Future of Oil Analysis
Asset Condition Management

Why Machine Learning and AI Are the Future of Oil Analysis

Oil analysis is essential for maintaining equipment reliability and life span.

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Battle of the Work Types
Work Execution Management

Battle of the Work Types

Terminology used by maintenance departments produce a wealth of information when performing an Internet search. World-class maintenance status, cost benefits of preventive maintenance vs. corrective maintenance, 6:1 maintenance golden rule and maintenance effectiveness are just a few examples. As you scan through search results for terms such as these, you’ll come across professional articles, opinions, exercises and infinite calls to action inviting searchers to contact an organization for additional information. You will likely find guarantees to improve your maintenance operations and overall bottom line by following recommendations. However, what you likely won’t find is a clear-cut understanding of the differences between these maintenance terms due to a lack of consistency among sources.

Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Why Your Digital Twin Approach Is Not Built to Last and What to Do About It Now

Predicting the failure of assets is the holy grail of maintenance. And, there has never been a better time to achieve it than now.

Featured Reliability Leader: Ramesh Gulati

Featured Reliability Leader: Ramesh Gulati

Ramesh is a true reliability leader and earned a well-deserved, but rare, Reliabilityweb.com Lifetime Achievement Award at The RELIABILITY Conference, May 8, 2019, in Seattle, Washington.

Are You a Maintenance Hero or a Reliability Leader?
Leadership for Reliability

Are You a Maintenance Hero or a Reliability Leader?

The fact is, organizations and their management teams create heroes and leaders through their behavior and actions. This article explains the differences between heroes and leaders and defines the attributes of a special kind of leader, reliability leaders: the real heroes.

How to Improve Your PM Program in 10 Steps
Work Execution Management

How to Improve Your PM Program in 10 Steps

If you currently have a preventive maintenance (PM) program in place and want to improve it, there are 10 steps you can follow to do so. Following these steps will uncover inefficiencies, including over- and under-scheduled PMs, equipment with PMs that don’t need them, and noncritical equipment that is  prioritized over critical equipment for preventive maintenance.

The Impact of Federated Manufacturing on the Industrial Sector
Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

The Impact of Federated Manufacturing on the Industrial Sector

When considering the future of production in the era of Industry 4.0, there is a truism that applies to any revolution: It is much easier to recognize when it starts than to predict how it will end. Within the hype zone of digitalization, the topic of federated manufacturing has, thus far, gained relatively little attention.

Improving Asset Contributions to the Bottom Line
Asset Management

Improving Asset Contributions to the Bottom Line

What are your contributions to the bottom line? Many asset managers are often put in an awkward position when confronted with this question, which refers to the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. This question is not necessarily demanding to know the asset manager’s individual contributions to the bottom line, but the contributions and input of the maintenance system and the assets he or she manages to the overall bottom line.

The Keys to Solving Fatigue: The Silent Killer
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

The Keys to Solving Fatigue: The Silent Killer

Fatigue is a failure mode that every manufacturing plant will experience at some point and can become chronic if not solved. While understanding fatigue has advanced since its inception in the early 1800s, there are still some misunderstandings in manufacturing in solving these failures. A characteristic of fatigue failures is stress, which is typically below the yield strength of the material. This is what makes fatigue a silent killer.

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