Uptime® Magazine
The mission of Uptime Magazine is to make maintenance reliability professionals and asset managers safer and more successful by providing case studies, tutorials, practical tips, news, book reviews, and interactive content.
August - September 2018
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Featured Articles
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The 5 Habits of Great Reliability Engineers
Editor’s Note:
The author’s fascination with technology dates back to his youth. His father was a blacksmith, an engineer of metal work, and was instrumental in helping the author discover his...
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Bottom Line: Consumers Prefer Companies That Care
In this fast-paced world of meeting deadlines, quotas and targets, one facet of business that can easily get overlooked is corporate social responsibility. (For reference in this article, the...
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7 Ways to Ensure Better Maintenance of Electric Motors
Electric motors may look like any other electrical component, but they have a massive impact on the company’s profitability and productivity. As such, it is critical to perform regular preventive...
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How to Optimize Big Data in Factory Maintenance
If you work in any aspect of manufacturing today, there is no doubt you are aware of a significant revolution underway. It is a new era for the industry, dramatically evident when you take a look...
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Why Is ISO27001 Security Standard Certification So Important?
ISO27001 is a quality standards specification for information security management systems (ISMS). The ISMS is an overall framework that encapsulates business procedures and policies pertaining to the...
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Is Wrench Time Worth Measuring?
Wrench time, or tool time as it’s called in some countries, is an often touted measure for determining maintenance productivity since it’s intended to measure the actual time technicians spend...
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Back to Leadership Basics
With so many advancements in world-class technology, many maintenance leaders have failed to set a strong leadership foundation. All too often, they get distracted with starting predictive...
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The Next Industrial Revolution: Transformational IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has its roots in manufacturing and industrial companies. As consumers are just beginning to look for IoT-driven thermostats to turn down the heat when away from home,...
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A Strong Approach to Reliability in the Refinery & Petrochemical Industry
PKN ORLEN operates six refineries (daily crude oil processing 728,000 barrels) and the region’s largest network of service stations located in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Lithuania. Crude...
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Does Your EAM System Ensure Work Safety?
Most enterprise asset management (EAM) systems just touch upon the safety aspect by registering hazards involved or precautions to be taken while working in a risky environment. But, how do they...
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Varnish Mitigation: Effective Fluid Analysis and Varnish Removal Options
One of the most difficult aspects of dealing with lubrication systems is that you can’t see what is happening inside of them. Taking an oil sample allows you to gather information about the trace...
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Why Maintenance Cost to Asset Value Ratio Is Not a Good Benchmark
A commonly used benchmark for maintenance activities is the ratio of maintenance cost to asset value (MC/AV). Some medical equipment maintenance professionals also claim MC/AV to be the best or most...
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From a Different Angle: A Perspective - Nothing Is Wrong, What Are You Going to Do?
Reflecting on April’s The RELIABILITY Conference 2018, it was a very intense (kind of like drinking from a fire hose) four days devoted to all things tech in maintenance. The presentations were on...
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Q&A with Industry Leader Dr. Carla Boehl
Dr. Boehl, Portuguese Australian, is a Chartered Engineer Fellow of Engineers Australia and asset management professional with over 20 years’ experience within rail, utilities and mining...
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