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Pivoting Away from Reactive Maintenance
Advances in technology are making the transition from reactive to predictive maintenance strategies easier to attain.
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7 Tips for Managing Generational Shift
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Moving Through the Maintenance Maturity Model
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OSHA Fines GA Farm $128K After Fatality
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Idaho Nuclear Waste Deal Reached
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Upkeep Launches Unsung Heroes Campaign to Recognize Maintenance and Facility Managers
UpKeep is launching an appreciation campaign today to pay tribute to all of the heroes in maintenance.
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Advance Your Project With Advance Work Packaging
Lauren Collier details the advantages, key solutions to challenges, and insights of Advance Work Packaging for today’s leaders.
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Optimizing EAM Insights: Create a Trusting Relationship With Asset Management Data
Industrial plant maintenance requires a wide variety of resources, from calibration instruments to high-tech diagnostic equipment. One of the most valuable tools is not housed in the parts storeroom or maintenance garage—it is data.
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Optimizing EAM Insights: Create a Trusting Relationship With Asset Management Data
Industrial plant maintenance requires a wide variety of resources. One of the most valuable tools, though, is not housed in the parts storeroom or maintenance garage—it is data.
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3D Reality Capture Provides Insight and Enhances Communication
3D digital twins of industrial projects mitigate risk in retrofit and maintenance projects by eliminating measurement errors and unknown dimensional information.
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7 Ways to Save Through Smarter Lubrication
This is not just a piece about how to save money on lubrication, it’s actually about how to save money on a bigger scale, by taking a good, hard look at your plant-wide lubrication practices.
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How IoT is Transforming Maintenance for Manufacturers
When you hear about the Internet of Things (IoT), the first thing that comes to mind is probably some application of technology. You may think of smart home devices, such as digital thermostats or Amazon’s Echo, or even more advanced technology in the form of machine learning and artificial intelligence could come to mind. But what exactly is IoT, and why are we talking about how it relates to manufacturing? IoT’s use in manufacturing is a lot simpler than you think, and it’s all connected with data.
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Inforgraphic: E-Waste by the Numbers
From smartphones and tablets to laptops and LCD screens, the economics of electronics encourages disposal rather than reuse. Often, it’s cheaper to buy new than to recycle.
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From the Floor: Maintaining a Maintenance Routine
Mfgnet chats with Matthew Futkos, Plant Engineering Manager at Exal Corporation, about maintenance matters at the company's Youngstown, Ohio, facility.
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2019 Maintenance Guide
The 2019 Maintenance Guide includes a collection of articles from industry experts on all things maintenance for your manufacturing facility.
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Toshiba Recycles Record-Setting Amount of E-Waste in 2018
Continuing its commitment to maintain a more sustainable planet, Toshiba America Business Solutions recycled more than 229 metric tons of e-waste—stemming from used toner products—in 2018.
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How to Cut Losses When Sourcing a Power Transformer
Quick, custom bus work for replacement power transformers speeds installation, shortens outages and gets production up and running again.
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Waste Reduction and Recycling: What Manufacturing Facilities Should Know
Since manufacturing facilities are the top producers of waste, they also hold tremendous scope and potential for waste reduction and recycling.
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10 Easy Improvements for a More Sanitary Processing Plant
Sanitary processing facilities strive to provide a quality product and safeguard against contamination. Here are 10 easy improvements you can make to upgrade the sanitation results in your processing plant.
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Calibrating a Pressure Gauge? Keep These Important Points in Mind
Calibration of pressure gauges is a crucial process and should be done with utmost care preferably by calibration experts. Here are 10 of the most important factors to keep in mind for pressure gauge calibration.
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Missouri S&T Robots to Play Role in Bridge Upgrade Effort
Fixing Missouri's deteriorating bridges is a high priority for Gov. Mike Parson, and the state is getting help from an unexpected source — robots.
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Sugar Producer Finds Sweet Solution for Annual Maintenance
No matter the industry, annual maintenance can leave a sour taste, a feeling Amalgamated Sugar knows all too well.
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Optimizing Bearing Performance and Service Life
As safeguards, implementing proper maintenance practices and using the correct enabling tools at every stage of a bearing’s life cycle ultimately can make all the difference in maximizing bearing service life and promoting plant productivity and efficiency.
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Five Options for Monitoring and Protecting Cooling Tower Components
The level of vibration management adequate for protecting the cooling tower and supported processes must be determined by the owner. The five options identified in this article can help monitor and protect cooling tower components from the potentially destructive effects of vibration.
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Safety Controllers Simplify Systems
Multiple safety functions must be performed in most industrial machine and process automation applications, and in these instances, there are many benefits to using a single modular integrated safety controller instead of multiple safety relays.
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5 ways to leverage ERP to boost your customer experience
What you will learn: • How customer expectations have changed in the era of Amazon • Today’s eCommerce trends, both B2B and B2C • Using an integrated ERP system to support customer experience • The customer benefits of integrating customer and financial data onto the same platform • Managing inventory in real time
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The Challenges of Implementing Total Productive Maintenance in the Manufacturing Industry
Here are five critical early challenges every manufacturing company should focus on when beginning a TPM implementation.
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Reducing the Barriers to Entry in Advanced Analytics
Modern next-generation analytics are more accessible than ever, giving plant maintenance managers new tools they can leverage to work smarter, not harder.
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Forging Ahead with Advanced HDPE Cooling Towers
Patriot Forge Co. depends on advanced HDPE cooling towers to maintain optimum bath temperatures for quenching metal forgings and cooling hydraulic systems.
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Industry 4.0 and the Changing Plant Electrical Environment
Industry 4.0 is becoming more than just a talking point: manufacturers are beginning to realize the extent to which harnessing innovations stimulated by the IoT will transform their environments to achieve smarter business outcomes.
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5 Ways Industrial LED Lighting Cuts Energy Costs Today & Down the Road
In honor of National Cut Your Energy Costs Day on Jan. 10, many consumers will add to their New Year’s Resolution list with a plan to reduce energy consumption and cost.
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Before Winter Strikes, Check the Heat Trace
Valin Corporation’s Nathan Ehresman, discusses how heat trace is a critical element for plants in cold weather environments.
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Getting the Most out of Vibration Analysis
Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director at obsolete industrial parts supplier EU Automation, explains how to make maintenance more predictable, with effective condition monitoring.
