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Can Ultrasound Provide the Same Diagnostics as Vibration?
If you are used to vibration analysis, you may be wondering whether ultrasound analysis allows you to diagnose faults as well. Adrian Messer explains…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Is Your Maintenance Operations in the Stone Age?
A well-designed and managed maintenance program is a major contributor to the performance and profitability of a business. The days of managing work orders, assets and maintenance using paper and spreadsheets are quickly vanishing..
- Jeff Roscher
- eWorkOrders
What Is Occupational Competency and Why Is It Important?
Since 1990, Scotland has been at the forefront of occupational competency, after a tragic accident occurred in their oil & gas sector, killing 167 people. Competence management systems became law for oil and gas companies after that event....
- Daryl Brister
- Shea Capability & Compliance Solutions
What Is Leadership?
Merriam-Webster’s definition of leadership is “The power or ability to lead other people,” but to lead them where...
- Joey Cantrell
- Constellium Muscle Shoals
Improve Efficiency and Productivity With the Right Facility Management Tools
In the hospitality and gaming industry customers expect a quick response and efficient maintenance management. In order to achieve this goal, your facility must be well organized and maintained and customer requests must be answered in a timely fashion.
- Jeff Roscher
- eWorkOrders
Organizing Your Emergency Maintenance
When a critical piece of equipment has gone down unexpectedly, we as maintenance professionals are forced into an EMT (Emergency Maintenance Technicians) role. We are expected to repair the broken equipment ASAP..
- Mark Jolley
- Marshall Institute
Controlling Maintenance MRO Inventory Materials and Spares
Two points should be understood by all persons involved with developing and instituting a maintenance MRO inventory control system..
- John Ross
- Marshall Institute
Driving a Reliability Culture
In this article, we explore why the common approach to building a reliability culture – by focusing on mindset, and values – isn’t enough. While this focus will yield some improvement, two critical elements that can drive cultural change are missing, A clear purpose and reliability framework..
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability