Avoiding Best Practice Implementation Pitfalls—A view from the Plant Manager

Avoiding Best Practice Implementation Pitfalls—A view from the Plant Manager

Organizations struggle with equipment reliability despite readily available knowledge of best practices. At the same time, leaders, engineers and technicians keep searching for the new technology they can purchase to advance their results and culture by decades. Leaders are stuck in a reliability improvement loop of start, stop, and restart. Sound familiar? What is the…

What are the benefits of the Internet of Things?

What are the benefits of the Internet of Things?

The Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are increasingly becoming more commonplace terms in the world of maintenance, reliability and asset management. This technology interconnects billions of devices and equipment, allowing for greater system collaboration. IIoT has the opportunity to reduce the need for intrusive maintenance and provide insights to the actual condition…

Importance of Job Safety Analysis

Importance of Job Safety Analysis

As a proven method for keeping workplaces safe and costs down, Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is designed to enable organizations to make more informed decisions for creating a safer and more hazard-free workplace. During this session, guest speakers John Schulz & Sam Creamer from JSABuilder discuss: – The broad concepts of job hazards and controls–…

The IoT of maintenance – what’s important and what’s not

The IoT of maintenance – what’s important and what’s not

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a common term heard and seen in the majority of the maintenance, reliability and asset management conversations today. The IoT promises to deliver many benefits to organizations that take full advantage of it, and many benefits are to be had. Organizations that don’t take advantage of IoT will be…