Five Minute Facts
Do Employers Prefer Experience or Certification?
The question: When you are looking to hire a person, which factor is the most important – experience or certification – if you can only choose one or the other? Our panel answers and gives some valuable advice…
- Matthew Moore
- Moore Reliability Limited
The Business Case for Mobile Enterprise Solutions
Today, people from every generation use mobile devices regularly. Companies can greatly increase efficiency by removing paper. Dr. Karl Hoffower explains how mobile enterprise solutions can help businesses weather the “silver tsunami”…
- Karl Hoffower
- Failure Prevention Associates
Precision Alignment Saves Energy
Significant power savings can be made through accurate alignment. Precise machine alignment eliminates reaction forces and reduces energy consumption by up to 10 percent.
- Sven Fleischer
- Easy-Laser
Technical Knowledge Isn’t the Gap – Emotional Intelligence Is
Why is your plant not getting reliability results? It can be tempting to blame a lack of technical knowledge, but talking to numerous experts has revealed something else: the gap is in emotional intelligence, which plays a direct role in implementation, culture change, psychological safety, and leadership…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Motion Amplification Case Study: Structural Looseness
This case study features a convection oven fan used in the customer's production process. Multiple welds and other repairs were made prior to the inspection. A service team was called in to balance the fan, but with Motion Amplification it quickly became clear that there was a serious structural issue.
- Andrew Dougherty
- RDI Technologies
The Importance of Predictive Maintenance
As early as the 1960’s, many companies realized that by routinely monitoring the operating condition of rotating equipment it is possible to obtain an advanced warning of operational or other problems that would impact continued efficient operation.
- Bill Kruger
- ALL-TEST Pro
What Are the Costs and Effects of Poor Power Quality?
Alan Ross, president of EPRA, gives an overview of the causes of poor power quality, the sectors that are most affected, and the cost of outages…
- Alan Ross
- Electric Power Reliability Alliance EPRA
CMMS, EAM, Who Cares?
In many ways, the "CMMS vs EAM" distinction has become outdated and misleading. Most CMMS’ today have EAM functionality, after all, and most EAM tools are necessarily also CMMS.
- Frederic Baudart
- Accruent
Networks and Data Destination for Wireless CM
Ed Spence, founder and manager of the Machine Instrumentation Group, discusses networks and data destination for wireless condition monitoring, including a gateway network I/O for select vendors…
- Ed Spence
- The Machine Instrumentation Group