In today's competitive industrial landscape, implementing effective reliability practices is essential. As companies worldwide pursue higher productivity, achieving best-in-class reliability practices ...

What does it really take to build a culture of reliability—and why do so many programs stall even when the tools are right? In this episode of Gear Talk, host Wes Cash is joined by Mike Dwyer to ...

January 30, 2023 – Nikola Labs, Inc., the leading condition monitoring and proactive maintenance organization, announced today its new name AssetWatch® and new website assetwatch.com as a part of its ...

Taking infrared temperature measurements is certainly a lot easier than it used to be. The tricky part is understanding when an infrared reading is accurate as is and when you need to account for ...

Anyone who has benefitted from the advancements made in ultrasound testing will agree that this technology is no longer just for leak testing. It is a complimentary companion technology to vibration ...

General Motors (GM) recently announced plans to realign its manufacturing capacity, reduce its salaried workforce by 15 percent and close five plants in North America. The assembly plants marked for ...

Culture is a set of rules and standards shared by members of an organization, which – when acted upon by the members – produce behavior that falls within a range that the organization considers proper ...

While most people associate lean with tools and principles such as value stream mapping, one-piece flow, kanban, 5-S, Total Productive Maintenance and kaizen events, few people think about the more ...

Maintenance culture is a hidden hierarchy of people and communication processes that binds an organization together. In "The Workbook for Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Culture Change," ...

Ergonomic risk factors are those problems that cause unnecessary physical fatigue in employees. These risk factors are commonly found in the manual material handling environment. Three primary factors ...

What is a Fishbone Diagram? A fishbone diagram is a cause-and-effect discovery tool that helps figure out the reason(s) for defects, variations or failures within a process. In other words, it helps ...

MSC Industrial Direct Company, one of the largest direct marketers and premier distributors of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) supplies to industrial customers throughout the ...