Gary West is a U.S. Navy submarine veteran. For the past 36 years, he has worked in maintenance of reactor plants, facilities, and spent nuclear fuel handling equipment. He is a graduate of Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Conducting an asset criticality assessment (ACA) is the first step in maintaining the assets properly. This article addresses the best maintenance strategy for assets by using ACA techniques.
Maintenance reliability is, of course, an essential part of any successful business that wants to remain successful. It includes the three PMs: predictive, preventive and proactive maintenance.
Within four years, more than 30 per cent of businesses and organizations will include edge computing in their cloud deployments to address bandwidth bottlenecks, reduce latency, and process data for decision support in real-time.
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When it comes to people and safety in industrial plants, maintenance teams are the ones who are most often in the line of fire and at risk for injury or death.
Most senior executives spend years climbing through the operational ranks. In the operational ranks, many transactional decisions are required each day.
Many make allowances for decision makers, saying some are “faking it until they make it.” However, this is the wrong default position to take when communicating with decision makers.
