Maximize Asset Reliability with Expert Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Training

Over the past five decades, maintenance has transitioned from a trade‑only discipline to a core business function that directly influences corporate profitability. Today, top‑tier organizations view maintenance as an integral part of operations, staffed by engineers, planners, and skilled technician

Maintenance managers are masters at making existing schedules work, but that does not mean the schedule is optimal. In many facilities, staffing plans are inherited, copied from a neighboring site, or created after production demands are already set. An effective schedule must balance business prio

When I tour mills, the most common question is whether to outsource maintenance. In this column, I explain which maintenance tasks are best kept in‑house and which should be contracted out, and why. Variability in workload A disciplined preventive‑maintenance program keeps daily and weekly tasks pre

Fact: The manufacturing sector has always been concerned about the amount of downtime incurred for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. The dollars lost to unscheduled maintenance can be quite substantial. Fact: All industrial facilities use some type of flexible coupling for pumps, compressors, c