Continuous Improvement
Two Minute Tips
Uptime Logistics Completes Your Reliability Strategy
Whether you’re currently in a down situation or proactively looking to improve your asset reliability & maintenance plans, CAP Logistics is a natural fit to include on your team. While many companies in the transportation sector are looking to optimize everyday supply chain shipping rates by reducing availability on times and routes, we understand the critical importance of operational reliability 24/7/365..
- CAP Logistics
Five Minute Facts
Machine Health Basics for the OEM Design Engineer
Analyzing machine vibration as a means of monitoring healthy operation and diagnosis of emerging problems is a relatively mature specialization, long practiced on turbines and motor-pump trains. Condition Monitoring for the factory today is generally implemented by a skilled practitioner equipped with a handheld data-logger, collecting and processing signals from a tethered vibration sensor during a periodically scheduled, route-based maintenance program.
- Ed Spence
- The Machine Instrumentation Group
Five Minute Facts
Embrace Industry 4.0 to Improve Reliability
Step changes in condition based monitoring technology mean unlocking the benefits of Industry 4.0 to achieve operator driven reliability are now a reality. Oliver Pogmore, of plant reliability specialists AVT Reliability®, explains how digital technology can overcome barriers such as cost and staffing levels to deliver a truly proactive maintenance programme.2
- Oliver Pogmore
- AVT Reliability®
Interviews
Information Everywhere Use Rest API to Get Out, and in the Information to Your CM System
In this interview SPM Instrument's Christer Larsson breaks down REST API. In detail Christer explains what REST API is and how it works, what type of data you can get and what are the benefits to REST API..
- Christer Larsson
- SPM Instrument
Two Minute Tips
RIP Predictive Maintenance. Long Live Predictive Maintenance
Companies have been using Predictive Maintenance for 30 years using technologies like vibration, ultrasonic, thermography, oil analysis, and motor current analysis. It is only within the last five years that advances in technology have radically changed what is possible. The future of Predictive Maintenance is...
- Ken Madsen
- Petasense
Five Minute Facts
Glossary of Industrial Maintenance Technology
It can be challenging to understand what all the terms for industrial maintenance technologies mean. IIoT, Industry 4.0, AI, PdM 4.0. We try to distill it down to a simple glossary...
- Ken Madsen
- Petasense
10 Minute Talk
Utilizing the Ishikawa Technique as Part of the Root Cause Analysis
In this very brief presentation, the Ishikawa technique, also known as the fishbone technique, will be described as a tool that can be used to determine the root cause of the problem or failure.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Two Minute Tips
Frontline Supervisors are Key to Continuous Improvement
Supervisors and team leaders are crucial to Continuous Improvement (CI) efforts. The reason is that often it is a frontline supervisor who provides personnel time to participate on the CI teams as well as the production equipment for the..
- Mark Jolley
- Marshall Institute
Five Minute Facts
Myth Busting: KPIs Are Always Helpful
Many believe that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. That’s just not right. Measurements can only count what is countable...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset