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Deferred Maintenance: What It Is, Consequences, and How to Avoid It
On Christmas Eve 2018, at U.S. Steel's century-old Clairton plant in Pennsylvania, a corroded sprinkler pipe collapsed, triggering a devastating fire that spread to the...
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What is Preventive Maintenance Audit and How to Create a Transformative Preventive Maintenance Audit
You invest countless hours and dollars on a preventive maintenance schedule, trying to prevent equipment breakdown, yet you are still constantly reacting to emergencies. Maintenance...
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What Is Reactive Maintenance and How to Prevent It?
“You never know when it will break—until it does.” That’s the grim reality maintenance leaders face every day. Unplanned equipment failures disrupt production, lead to...
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Best Practices for Seamless Warehouse Maintenance Operations
Warehousing operation is a pivotal process in the entire supply chain for shipping and distribution, retail and CPG businesses which rely on distribution centres and...
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Reliability Centered Maintenance(RCM): What It Is, Best Practices and More
Unplanned equipment downtime is a formidable adversary for industries. “Value of Reliability” survey by ABB revealed that over two-thirds of industrial businesses experience unplanned outages...
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Role of Condition-based and Preventive Maintenance in Reliability-centered Maintenance
The greatest risk to asset reliability is not equipment failure, but a maintenance strategy that fails to anticipate it. Maintenance managers often find themselves caught...
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Top Technologies Used in Condition-Based Maintenance
Condition-based maintenance is an important maintenance technique which relies heavily on the use of various technologies. The need for technology stems from the fact that...
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Preventive Maintenance Inspections: Meaning, Implementation, Checklist, and More
Inspections are a very important part of the preventive maintenance process. During the maintenance operations, the maintenance staff can carry out inspections for many reasons....
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What is Restaurant Maintenance Management?
Restaurant maintenance management is a structured approach to inspecting, repairing, and servicing essential systems, including kitchen equipment, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical components. These systems are...
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What is Preventive Maintenance Compliance (PMC)?
Preventive maintenance compliance (PMC) is a key performance indicator (KPI) that measures how effectively an organization completes scheduled maintenance tasks within a given period. It...
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