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How The Shifting Workforce Affects Your Plant and How to Move Forward
Data analysis shows that America is losing its skilled, competent workforce due the retiring baby boomer generation. This will create an employee vacuum in the workforce that only the 79 million Gen Yers can fill, increasing the demand and completion for Gen Y employees...
- Daryl Brister
- Shea Capability & Compliance Solutions
Defect Elimination through Monitoring Current State
So the first thing I noticed about this place much like all other operations with iron ore there is a lot of dirt. I want to a say a lot of dirt I mean a lot of dirt. It was everywhere incredible and dark you would be surprised to see where it comes from. The other thing I noticed was a shake. I had a young graduate engineer with me and it got to the point that I was sitting in the office your cup of coffee was shaking in the seat you could see impact craters.
- Dare Petreski
- Delta Asset Reliability
Making Data-Driven Decisions with Connected Reliability
Improve maintenance by connecting disparate systems to provide data to teams. Integrative technologies and software, including condition monitoring data with computer maintenance management system (CMMS) software, provide maintenance and reliability (M&R) professionals with an overall view of maintenance activities.....
- Frederic Baudart
- Accruent
How to Choose the Right Locations to Measure with Ultrasound
By nature, high-frequency sound is very low-energy, so it tends not to travel far from its source. On a motor-and-pump setup, for instance, we’d ideally like to take our readings…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
What Do We Require for IIoT?
What do we require for IIoT and having all kinds of different devices and sensor technologies what kind of protocol should that be?
- Sven Fleischer
- Easy-Laser
Artificial Intelligence vs Vibration-based Diagnostics
What is important to know is that vibration monitoring techniques that are widely used at present generate the domain of informative features of equipment defects in a form that is extremely problematic for automatic systems. The main issue is...
- Pawel Lecinski
- CMRP
Asset and Maintenance Master Data Quality Is Not an IT Challenge
Data quality is often the domain of IT, who are responsible for ensuring high-quality data in the corporate enterprise systems. While this works well for many different types of data, it does not work well for asset and maintenance master data...
- Sophie Strobel
- HubHead Corp.
Understanding the Difference Between Preventive and Predictive Strategies
Preventive and predictive maintenance may achieve the same goals (healthy assets), but only one keeps costs reined in while improving maintenance as a business value driver.
- Frederic Baudart
- Accruent
Managing Equipment Repairs in the Farming Industry with CMMS
Taking control of your livestock and crops is a daily task. How about your maintenance operations? With equipment breakdowns, depleted spare parts inventory, searching for manuals and repair documents, keeping track of workers, controlling costs and keeping up with the competition. How can you effectively manage all of these tasks and keep costs at a minimum?
- Jeff Roscher
- eWorkOrders