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Motor advancements increase uptime, efficiency, reliability, and performance

Industrial Motors

Motor advancements increase uptime, efficiency, reliability, and performance

Sheila Kennedy outlines recent advancements that improve motors operations and maintenance.

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Get it straight: The latest alignment technologies

Sheila Kennedy explores alignment tools and technologies to keep your physical assets positioned for productivity.

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Belt conveyor maintenance 101

How to address misalignment, mis-tracking and other reliability and operational problems in belt conveyors.

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Your checklist for precision collinear alignment

Richard R. Knotek

These rotating shaft coupling alignment basics will help you keep everything straight.

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2018 PdM survey results: More outsourced maintenance and monitoring

Our 2018 predictive maintenance survey suggests that obstacles to PdM success are being overcome by motivated plant teams and their partners.

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Industrial Bearings

6 steps to preventing bearing failure

Extend the life of your bearings with these best practices.

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2017 PdM survey: How plants are employing predictive maintenance today: Part 3

Our 2017 predictive maintenance survey reveals how plant teams are tying fresh approaches into their PdM programs.

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2017 PdM survey: How plants are employing predictive maintenance today: Part 2

Our 2017 predictive maintenance survey reveals how plant teams are tying fresh approaches into their PdM programs.

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2017 PdM survey: How plants are employing predictive maintenance today: Part 1

Our 2017 predictive maintenance survey reveals how plant teams are tying fresh approaches into their PdM programs.

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Restart your PdM program, Part 2: Tips for getting back on track

Diagnose what went wrong and get back on the predictive maintenance track.

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Restart your PdM program, Part 1: The rocky road to reliability

Diagnose what went wrong and get back on the predictive maintenance track.

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Get your alignment in line: Don't jiggle while you work

In this installment of What Works, the J.M. Smucker Co. slashes downtime by getting its pulleys straight.

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Context-aware tech, part 2: Who’s leading the charge?

Christine LaFave Grace

Here’s what context-aware tech looks like today and what it means for asset management in your plant.

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Control Systems

How context-aware technology will help you see the future

Christine LaFave Grace

Here’s what context-aware tech looks like today and what it means for asset management in your plant.

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PdM: 3 companies making it work

Who's putting a proactive, predictive approach to good use in their facilities?

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Going mobile: Advice from 5 experts

Now that mobility is ubiquitous inside plants, where is it taking us next?

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PdM in the medical field: What manufacturers can learn from medicine

Mark Keneipp with Cassie Keneipp

Medicine has bought into the value of a predictive maintenance approach. Has your plant?

EPA finalizes standards to reduce pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants

EPA finalizes standards to reduce pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants

Alexis Gajewski

Poultry processors pay $4.8 million for hiring children as young as 14 to work dangerous jobs

Poultry processors pay $4.8 million for hiring children as young as 14 to work dangerous jobs

Alexis Gajewski