Maintenance teams already juggle more variables than most people see. Aging assets. New equipment with complex controls. Tight staffing. Higher uptime expectations. The work never stops, and a single ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Smart manufacturing technologies are making a significant impact on manufacturing operations ...

If you work in facilities, you know how a single broken machine can impact the overall production. Even a minor, unexpected breakdown is enough to disrupt ...

Two new series of bridge-type CMMs, Maxima and Maxima R, have been launched by LK Metrology for measurement of large, heavy, ...

For starters, all maintenance-related data will be stored on a computer. In the days of old, managers would record all data in logs and journals. Nowadays, enterprise-level systems cannot afford to ...

From the 1980s to the early 2000s, many new software technologies, though created to serve distinct industry purposes, were largely new creations. In other words, they were not always built upon ...

Are you letting your maintenance operations bleed efficiency? Every paper record, every unwieldy spreadsheet, is a missed opportunity. It’s like trying to run a marathon with lead weights—you’re ...

Imagine keeping track of a manufacturing plant’s operations, logging maintenance requests, scheduling service and reordering parts for a substantial number of machines. Now imagine keeping track of ...

One of the maintenance tools that came to prominence in the 1990s was the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). Initially, maintenance managers saw it as a way to replace the cumbersome ...