What happens when you combine the early warning power of vibration monitoring with the diagnostic depth of oil analysis? At ...

Many organizations have embarked on improving their asset performance and reliability. However, the harsh reality is that ...

Harley-Davidson Inc. on December 3 announced it will keep its motorcycle operations in York, Pa., and move forward with plans to restructure those operations. The announcement follows the December 2 ...

It's estimated that 50 to 70 percent of vibration issues in rotating machinery are caused by misalignment, according to Texas A&M's OAKTrust study on coupling misalignment forces. In fact, reliability ...

What is a Fishbone Diagram? A fishbone diagram is a cause-and-effect discovery tool that helps figure out the reason(s) for defects, variations or failures within a process. In other words, it helps ...

Johnson Controls Inc. announced on August 9 details of a worldwide restructuring that will eliminate 5,000 jobs and close 16 factories over the next 12 months, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper ...

Airgas Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of the U.S. bulk gas business that Linde AG was ordered to divest after its acquisition of The BOC Group. On March 9, the U.S. Federal Trade ...

Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc., the parent company of Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc., announced that on May 12, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware confirmed its Second ...

According to the PAS-551 standard on asset management from the British Standards Institute, asset management is defined as: “systematic and coordinated activities and practices through which an ...

Although planning and scheduling is somewhat of an intricate process that we will spend future issues of Reliable Plant examining and discussing, I wanted to spend this very first issue going right to ...

Infrared thermography is the process of using a thermal imager to detect radiation (heat) coming from an object, converting it to temperature and displaying an image of the temperature distribution.

Saab has signed a unique partnership agreement whereby the enterprise applications suite IFS Applications will be included as part of Saab’s support offering to the market. The first major contract to ...