Reliability Articles
What is Soft Foot and Why Does it Damage Machinery?
Roughly two-thirds of all rotating machinery experience a condition called “soft foot”. Learn how to recognize and avoid this common issue.
Rethinking your approach to improving culture and performance
In presenting on leadership strategies to improve culture and performance among maintenance and reliability teams, leadership expert and consultant Tom Moriarty uses neuroscience to explain that successfully enacting change is often harder than…
Preparing your people for transitioning to Industry 4.0
Planning for Industry 4.0? To achieve higher reliability and related goals—such as a better environmental footprint, lower energy costs, sustained or improved product quality, and so on—you need to prepare your people for…
eMaint implementation at Inframark has been a success
By Pamela Curry, Inframark Special Projects Manager Reprinted with permission from the Inframark newsletter, The Source, October 2019 Inframark’s first eMaint system went live in mid-2018, kicking off an effort to put in…
5 Cross-location success stories
A key benefit of eMaint Computerized Maintenance Management System software is how it organizes assets by building, campus, and global locations. Cross-location asset management refers to assets set up in multiple places—near or…
5 ways to protect aging systems from cyberattacks
Hackers continue to inflict more and more damage on enterprise companies’ networks, and manufacturing is seen as one of the world’s most exploitable industries. According to a 2019 IBM X-Force report, manufacturing ranked…
2020 check-in: Where are we on the road to Industry 4.0?
What will 2020 bring in terms of automation, AI, machine learning, and Industry 4.0? What takeaways do we have from 2019? What new could happen that we don’t know about? Oliver Sturrock,…
A hard look at soft foot: Detecting machine frame distortion before it causes major issues
Soft foot is a common problem that affects rotating machinery and can result in a range of mechanical and quality problems. Think of it as a chair with one leg shorter than…
Progress on your reliability maintenance goals begins – and ends – with your facility’s culture
Key takeaways from October 2019 webinar by Dr. Klaus Blache As reliability professionals, we’re predisposed to prioritize the most critical assets. But what if someone told you that asset prioritization wasn’t the key…