Mikro Adopts eMaint CMMS for Enhanced Manufacturing Efficiency

A few weeks ago, I was asked, “How many hours should a maintenance planner schedule each week?” The answer isn’t a simple number, but a blend of quantitative insight and practical experience. I’m cautious about prescribing a hard quota for planners. Still, let’s examine the numbers first

Every department in a manufacturing organization ultimately serves a single purpose: to deliver high‑quality products or services that meet market demand. Within this ecosystem, operations and maintenance are the twin pillars that directly influence production performance. Operations is charged wit

In the previous issue of Reliable Plant magazine, I introduced the five stages of a condition‑based maintenance (CBM) program’s evolution. Here we examine how each stage differs across four critical performance dimensions. CBM and Formal Work Requests Stage 1: Very few or no CBM‑generated work ord

\nIn 1927, Thomas Parnell began the pitch‑drop experiment to measure the viscosity of a tar‑like substance. The apparatus has produced only eight drops in over 90 years, a fact that illustrates how rarely critical events can be observed—yet they have enormous implications for production reliability.