The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread havoc across the globe but has also brought key learnings that may change the way we do business forever. These will likely include more workplace protections such as hand sanitizer and PPE, more distance between workspaces and people, and a heavier reliance on technology for sharing data, communicating, and…
An aging workforce means younger people and newer tools tackling alignment issues in our modern rotating machines. With today’s adaptive alignment tools and technology, and some basic fundamentals, even the most complex alignment jobs can be handled by anyone in the plant. There’s no need to rely on just a few experienced mechanics to perform…
A recent study published by MIT Review suggests that the manufacturing sector is making life harder than it needs to be. Manufacturing ranks among the bottom five sectors to be using digital technologies to enable employees to work better. Manufacturing has digitalized many of its systems, but it hasn’t managed to achieve the transformative results…
What do you mean your planner doesn’t plan? Let’s look at what a maintenance planner should do both for and with your organization. The planner role is one of the most important roles within your reliability program. However, in a recent SMRP Conference session, only 3% said their planners were truly planning work regularly. If…
With many companies ordered to shut down and people ordered to stay in their homes to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, organizations and teams have had to adapt—and suddenly. If your maintenance team cannot work in your plant, what should you do? How can you leverage this unplanned downtime? We went to some Fluke Reliability…
Fluke Reliability expert John Bernet appeared on the Industrial Talk Podcast with Scott MacKenzie. Bernet, an application specialist and Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional with decades of experience, provided insights into the long-term financial benefits that an optimized reliability program can have on an organization’s bottom line. By saving money and increasing efficiency, you will better…
In today’s manufacturing world, the impact of downtime is pretty clearly understood at the top of the food chain. But what about the benefits of uptime, preventive maintenance, or end-to-end connectivity? How do you, as a maintenance and reliability professional, make a case for long-term planning if there aren’t any concrete short-term financial gains? Suzane…
Due to the extraordinary times, companies must consider inventory management from a risk perspective more than ever as the current situation severely stresses the supply chain. In this webinar, you’ll learn about maintenance strategies that maximize the equipment uptime and reduce the need for emergency parts replacement during and after a pandemic. The webinar also…
Maintenance technologies that connect systems, data, and people are a must. But so are practices and solutions that produce trustworthy data and transform it into actionable information you can quickly visualize and use to make decisions to improve operations and extend asset life. In this webinar, Kevin Clark of Fluke Reliability and Matthew Midas of…
Christian Silbernagel of Fluke Reliability is featured on the Industrial Talk Podcast with Scott MacKenzie. In this episode, Christian talks about three key digital topics: – IIoT challenges and solutions – Smart data vs. big data – The power of connected reliability Silbernagel was an engineer for years before he drew on his experience and…