Continuous Improvement
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Hiring a Reliability Consultant
What industrial organization doesn’t want to improve safety performance, decrease downtime, and improve throughput while optimizing cost? Even if you think you are running at full potential, the competition looms: How do you stay ahead?
- Michael Gehloff
- Allied Reliability
Five Minute Facts
The Fundamentals of Belts and Sheaves
In some industries, like oiling, drive belt replacement is considered a task for the new guys on the floor. It’s an easy job right? Absolutely. But there are many ways to do it incorrectly if not taught properly the first time.
- Stan Riddle
- ACOEM
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7 Essential Predictive Maintenance Indicators (KPIs) to Track
Maintenance KPIs are performance metrics that help you measure your overall maintenance process. These indicators evaluate factors critical to an organization's success. However, not all managers know the best indicators for this and may fail to monitor essential data to increase production potential.
- Silvio DosSantos
- SEMEQ
Two Minute Tips
The Industry 4.0 Roadmap and How I-care’s Approach Is Different
Industry 4.0 is what organizations are all striving for, but it’s not something that can be fixed overnight. To achieve sustainable results, a long-term mindset is needed. It is therefore essential to choose a strategic approach taken in stages. And, of course, the right partner to help you guide all facets of your organization through this major transition.
- Tom Rombouts
- I-care Group
10 Minute Talk
How Exactly Does Machine Learning Work?
Have you ever wondered exactly how machine learning works? Where does the system get the data for equipment that is not allowed to fail often? Jason Tranter goes into a method an AI system might use to tell us whether a bearing is about to fail…
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Two Minute Tips
For Maximum ROI, Check the IIoT Hardware Installation
Once we’ve selected the assets and the appropriate technology, it’s time to look at hardware installation, since we know our analysis is only as good as our data. There are many sensors in the market today and they all promote ease of installation, but a proper installation will determine whether you get actionable results…
- Dries Van Loon
- NanoPrecise
Articles
Software Reliability
Software reliability is the probability that software will operate failure-free for a specified period of time in a specified environment. It is an important contributing factor impacting system reliability (which includes hardware and human reliability).
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Five Things That I’ve Learned in Five Months in Maintenance & Reliability Talent
After spending nearly two decades helping people solve problems related to physical assets and asset reliability, earlier this year, I decided it was time for a change and stepped into the maintenance and reliability talent acquisition and staff augmentation field.
- Adrian Messer
- Progressive Reliability, LLC
10 Minute Talk
Using PdM to Drive Reliability Improvement
PdM programs manage failures – they do not usually improve reliability. John Pucillo wants to change this. Here, he describes how your PdM program can be used to drive reliability and provides examples…
- John Pucillo
- True Reliability