Issue Archive

Regulate water temperature
Avoid permanent injury, freeze damage and corrosion.

Material handling meets energy efficiency
In this installment of What Works, lift trucks and conveyors combine forces to quadruple production in a LEED Gold-certified facility.

2 steps to determine spare criticality
Manage MRO inventory by measuring significance of equipment failure.

Improved uptime and visibility drive plants' EAM initiatives
Plant Services and ARC Advisory Group conduct joint survey to plot advancements in asset management software.

Where education meets jobs
Joel Leonard says Ohio is tackling the Maintenance Crisis with proactive training that meets companies' needs.

10 steps to control electrical cabinet problems
Beware of interference when control and power circuits reside in one cabinet.

Engineering and purchasing can work together
Tom Moriarty says trust and collaboration trump finger-pointing.

New energy technologies can be found outside the corporate status quo
Peter Garforth says defective traditional decisions can tether a plant to higher energy costs.

Connect assets to maintenance systems
Sheila Kennedy says industrial networks transform data into actionable information.

Utility achieves contract transparency and cost control
In this installment of What Works, PNM automates its maintenance contractor management process.

11 steps to ensure PdM success
Vibration analysis and condition monitoring are part of a bigger picture.

Keep tabs on movable assets
David Berger says real-time asset locating and tracking systems can help to ensure resources are available.

When to integrate control-system data with maintenance data
Mike Bacidore says data integration improves business decisions.

Improve compressor efficiency at the Dirty 30
Reduce wasted inefficiencies at the end of the line.