Maintenance can be made more efficient, helping make operations more efficient and profitable, by leveraging new digital technologies. Conventional time-based preventive maintenance (PM) is widely ...

Preventative maintenance refers to tasks that maintain assets on a regular basis to optimize performance and prevent unexpected breakdowns that could push up asset tracking costs. Depending on the ...

Predicting exactly how and when a process tool is going to fail is a complex task, but it’s getting a tad easier with the rollout of smart sensors, standard interfaces, and advanced data analytics.

Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) is the application of preventive maintenance strategies in an organized and standardized method. Total preventive maintenance is an approach that places the ...

Predictive maintenance is preferred over preventive maintenance for critical assets, but the correct application of advanced analytics is required to realize full value. Power plants of all types have ...

The benefit comes from combining cycle counts and process monitoring data from the historian database instead of relying on hours-based scheduling methods. Manufacturers should move beyond hours-based ...

Process conditions can corrode stainless-steel surfaces, necessitating corrective and preventive maintenance. Stainless steel is usually the preferred substrate for good manufacturing practice (GMP) ...