His comment is not the sort of declaration one expects from a veteran author of more than 19 maintenance management texts, as well as the president of Springfield Resources . But the statement, it ...

Picture a world without electricity – no cooking, no temperature control, no electronics. Our daily lives are powered by the energy sector and public works management. Electricity distribution plays a ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Like many higher ed institutions, Tufts University has ...

CMMS, or computerized maintenance management systems, software is designed to maintain a computer database for an organization's plant maintenance functions. As manufacturing businesses grow in size ...

The Health & Safety Act 1974 says that employers must keep workplaces safe and healthy. They need to find and fix potential dangers instead of just giving workers safety gear. Companies can get in ...

Just like regular inspections and repairs keep your car as a dependable mode of transportation, industrial maintenance does the same for the equipment you rely on to do your job and your company ...

From excessive downtime due to unplanned equipment failures to a shortage of skilled labor to maintaining regulatory compliance, it can be difficult for manufacturers to keep up with demand. To ...

Maintenance management is all about maintaining the resources of the company so that production proceeds effectively and that no money is wasted on inefficiency. There are many software programs that ...

Is your facility struggling to design an effective preventive maintenance (PM) program? An endless parade of books and articles tell us how to “do” PM. But it’s one thing to read and another entirely ...

As you read this, countless operations involving thousands of moving parts are busily humming all around the world. Yet no matter how fine-tuned and expertly designed these systems are, it’s only ...