This white paper introduces a closed-loop reliability model designed to eliminate these blind spots by connecting detection, diagnosis, decision-making, and learning into a continuous system.

The landscape of professional work is undergoing a fundamental shift, as detailed in the 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft and LinkedIn. AI has transitioned from a futuristic concept ...

What does reliability look like when your assets aren’t bolted to the floor—but hauling 200 tons of ore up a 6% grade? In this episode of Gear Talk, host Wes Cash sits down with Terry Taylor, a ...

Asad Malik is a Senior Manager at Fluke Reliability, leading sales and business development for condition monitoring and alignment products and services. With more than two decades of experience in ...

Data from PdM programs across mining and aggregates facilities reveals a clear pattern. The following five fault types are the most commonly detected and offer the greatest opportunity to intervene ...

Planning isn’t sexy. Tom Clancy will not write an espionage thriller entitled “The Maintenance Planner.” You won’t put your buddies on the edge of their bar stools recounting the time you took all the ...

It's estimated that 50 to 70 percent of vibration issues in rotating machinery are caused by misalignment, according to Texas A&M's OAKTrust study on coupling misalignment forces. In fact, 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 ...

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 ...

MCSA is simply the process by which motor current readings are recorded and analyzed in the frequency domain. It has been around since 1985 and proven itself well over the years in locating rotor ...

Invented more than 2,000 years ago, threaded fasteners are still the most important detachable hardware used in machinery design and assembly. They can be found on practically any mechanical component ...

For many people who work in white-collar jobs, the risk of suffering an injury at work seems negligible at best. While sitting at a desk all day does come with its fair share of downsides, ...