One of the latest unfortunate trends in maintenance and reliability is to take shortcuts. By learning why all reliability ...

By understanding the foundations of RCM, the benefits and potential challenges of this approach, and what is required for ...

What happens when you combine the early warning power of vibration monitoring with the diagnostic depth of oil analysis? At ...

Today, plant assets play a key role in overall enterprise efficiency. That is why manufacturers are turning to reliability-based maintenance (RBM) more and more, using RBM as a strategy to help ...

In the mid-1980s, United Air Lines produced a commercial that clearly defined the life of an effective troubleshooter. This corporate problem-solver could never return home, bouncing from one ...

Many organizations have embarked on improving their asset performance and reliability. However, the harsh reality is most struggle to implement the actions necessary to achieve the desired outcomes.

The Dow Chemical Company announced that on June 30, its board of directors approved a restructuring plan which calls for the shutdown of a number of manufacturing assets, including ethylene and ...

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. announced the following additions to the Dresser-Rand executive leadership team, which became effective January 1, 2009. According to Vincent R. Volpe Jr., president and CEO, ...

Alcoa on January 13 announced it hosted New York Governor David A. Paterson to celebrate finalization of a 30-year hydropower contract to supply the company’s two aluminum smelters in Massena, N.Y.