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Vibration Tracking – The Looking Glass Technique – See the Invisible

Incredible as it may seem, the vibration (or at least a large part of it) can be detected through video recording with incredible resolution. Saving a huge number of hours in studies that before were time consuming if not impossible to do. All of this using Vibration Tracking.

So, what is the Vibration Tracking? And better yet, what is it for?

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  • Asset Strategy

How to Reduce Unplanned Downtime

Downtime refers to the duration of time when your machinery is not in production. While downtime can be planned for equipment set up or scheduled repairs, unplanned downtime refers to downtime that occurs unexpectedly because of an unforeseen shutdown or equipment failure. Every minute your assets are not working costs your company money. For most manufactures, unplanned downtime is the single largest source of lost production time.

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Resonance & Natural Frequency

Have you ever tried to balance a fan and its vibration won’t go down? No matter what you do, do you know what Resonance is?

3 Tips to diagnose Resonance and 6 ways to correct it below.

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What Happens When Failure Codes Are Set Up Incorrectly?

When failure codes are set up correctly, they can help you gather valuable information pertaining to your company’s assets that promotes preventative and efficient maintenance. This information can be applied to work orders and used for reliability analysis. However, when your failure codes are not correctly set up in SAP or Maximo this can impact your assets, your maintenance operations, and your ROI.

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Checklists, Ignorance and Ineptitude

According to Atul Gawande's excellent book "The Checklist Manifesto", failures only happen because of two things: ignorance or ineptitude.

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Asset Management System Implementation Objectives

We need to develop an efficient, robust, and reliable asset management system in order to enable asset management, which is defined as the coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets. We need the AMS to…

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Keeping Track of your BoM Building Progress

Sometimes, asset-intensive companies work with a third-party contractor to assist with a BoM building project. There are quite a few reasons for this. For one, building BoMs are expensive. Much time, resources, and expertise are required for successful completion, and not every asset-intensive company may possess the required expertise. In this case, it would make sense for these companies to outsource their BoM building rather than embarking on a project without adequate resources.

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How to Maintain an Efficient Workforce During the Pandemic and Beyond

Workforce efficiency is key to success in a market facing labor shortages and skills gap issues. Factor in a global pandemic, and most companies have had to reimagine how they meet staffing requirements, asking questions like: What are the current recruiting and staffing challenges? Should we partner with an outside firm to help support recruiting needs? How is COVID-19 impacting the way business is done?

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Advantages of the Infravision-Application for Your Business

In many cases, electrical safety does not yet receive the attention it deserves. Most factories work with some kind of control, but this does not provide the desired data to ensure a high level inspection. In addition, working methods and the associated output can vary quite a bit per location. Especially if a company has several branches, spread over more than one country.

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