The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently announced that it is gathering information on the role of maintenance in vehicle safety. One area FMCSA wants to focus on is understanding what ...

Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) teams play a crucial role in ensuring a manufacturing organization’s success. In today’s environment, staying competitive means maintaining a tight production ...

The benefit comes from combining cycle counts and process monitoring data from the historian database instead of relying on hours-based scheduling methods. Manufacturers should move beyond hours-based ...

Ultrasonic corrosion and erosion monitoring instruments provide plant personnel with asset integrity information that ...

No maintenance organization wants to be characterized by a cliché, specifically this one: Rather than keeping equipment operating in optimal condition, maintenance technicians race around in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we study a monotone process maintenance model for a multistate system with k working states and l failure states. By making ...

While the general intent of heat tracing is to provide a maintained temperature, there are two commonly designed systems that handle the majority of applications. These are tracing for winterization ...

Ensuring electronics quality is essential as the world increasingly relies on these devices. It can also be challenging because so many points throughout manufacturing can affect product quality, but ...

The guided missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68) continues to be a Fleet showcase for engineering improvements developed by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). During the last 15 months, Anzio ...