Despite advanced condition monitoring, many asset failures show no early data signals, making routine visual inspections ...

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 ...

In May 2009, Duke Energy won the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Community Relations Process Award for its public outreach program “to educate the public and instill confidence in the safety, reliability ...

As a maintenance engineer for 10 years at a pulp and paper company, I always dreaded the intermittent electrical problem that was reported as the cause for lost production. I knew the drill. This ...

Multiple departments, including engineering and quality assurance, are responsible for evaluating GMP equipment and facilities. Regulatory inspectors require well-organized, preferably digital, ...

Proper equipment lubrication has tremendous potential for cost reduction not only on projects, but also on overall fleet operations. In fact, ensuring that a fleet of construction equipment is ...

Reliability and Stupidity: Mistakes in Reliability Engineering and How to Avoid Them is an aptly named chapter in Jonathan Swingler’s book that discusses what a design engineer should understand about ...