There is no doubt that the physical work required to manage and maintain company equipment has always been (and will continue ...

AssetWatch, a leading provider of AI-powered predictive maintenance solutions for manufacturers, has been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, ranking No. 526 nationally—its second time earning the ...

In industrial operations, the cleanliness of lubricating oil is often an underestimated factor in equipment health and ...

In this episode of Gear Talk recorded at Reliable Plant 2025, Wes Cash sits down with Trent McJunkin—an automotive maintenance pro who rose from technician to strategic leader. They dive into why ...

Today, plant assets play a key role in overall enterprise efficiency. That is why manufacturers are turning to reliability-based maintenance (RBM) more and more, using RBM as a strategy to help ...

Troubleshooting and RCA Come Together Back in 1997, I had reliability engineers tell me that root cause analysis didn’t work. They tried it, but they didn’t find fixes that would stop repeat equipment ...

On April 4, the diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced it has completed the purchase of The Moeller Group, as announced in Eaton’s December 20, 2007 news release. The ...

Airgas, Inc., announced on February 4 it has acquired Merriam-Graves Corporation, an independent distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related supplies operating in 25 locations ...

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. Check out how to create a fishbone diagram and more.

The traditional view of operational shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STOs) holds that they are maintenance and engineering events. This simplistic view is held by many organizations. A more ...

A3 refers to a European paper size that is roughly equivalent to an American 11-inch by 17-inch tabloid-sized paper. The A3 format is used by Toyota as the template for three different types of ...