Preparing for a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) improvement program requires a well-defined process and team-based approach. The foundation of any improvement program is the business assessment ...

Considering reliability’s impact on a company’s success (keeping workers safe, preventing asset failure, and making maintenance costs more predictable), why do so many maintenance departments struggle ...

When a global medical device company needed help setting up a reliability program, Marie Getsug was up for the task. As a program manager of strategic consulting for asset management at Jacobs ...

Systems break. This is never desirable, but it does happen. As was discussed in Chapter 5, equipment reliability is a major goal of any development program, but it is impossible to produce a design ...

Here’s your reliability reality check on predictive maintenance, technician resistance, condition monitoring, and leadership communication.

Delivering a clear, scalable, functional reliability plan can be a daunting task, and organizations often stumble in getting reliability programs off the ground. The starts and stops of a ...

“Asset utilization, also called Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or equipment capacity, is not just the responsibility of one department. It is the responsibility of the entire company. It has ...

How do you convince a facility owner that the HVAC maintenance you want to perform is truly worthwhile? Paul Wheeler, facilities management, and Lou Ronsivalli, service development, both with Trane, ...