While technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), are ...

It is essential to understand that individual leadership styles suit situations differently, and some are more effective in ...

There are several consistencies in the types of people who go into industrial maintenance. They tend to be type “A” personalities — confident, somewhat cocky and a little rebellious. Their value is in ...

When a maintenance program is successful, every area of the company is positively affected. Today, top organizations are reaping the benefits from implementing well-designed and managed reliability ...

Emerson Process Management has helped Celulosa Arauco strengthen its world-class pulp supply capability by digitally integrating the world’s largest “smart” pulping mill built by the industry leader ...

This short video shows you how to create a Fishbone Diagram template using Microsoft Excel for root cause analysis. Access this 3-minute, 40-second video by clicking on the link below.

There are a variety of failure analysis and problem-solving methods used to analyze equipment and process failures. The different methods are described and compared so maintenance and reliability ...

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 ...

The Specialty Paper Products Division of Nashua Corporation has agreed to pay a fine of $18,720 to settle an Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act violation involving failure to update and ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is the premier standard for measuring manufacturing productivity. Read about how to calculate OEE, the six big losses, OEE benefits and more. What is Overall ...

Unplanned downtime at petrochemical plants due to electric power failure is more common and costly than the total of fires, floods, earthquakes, network outages, service failures and hardware problems ...

MTTR is a metric used by maintenance departments to measure the average time needed to determine the cause of and fix failed equipment. Anytime you see the phrase "mean time to," it means you're ...