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Often times sprinkler systems are the required, go-to solution for protecting people and property against fire hazards. While they do an excellent job at this, sometime there is a need to quickly suppress a fire and protect high value sensitive items and this is where clean agents come into play, they have the ability to…

  Bringing people onto a hybrid team presents all the challenges associated with an office-based team, as well as many of the challenges that come with a fully remote team. There are also nuances because the new team structure will be neither of those things, but something new and often unprecedented. Specifically, our clients tell…

  Implementing Industry 4.0 technology on existing machinery contributes to overall operational sustainability. By Alexander Hill, Senseye Today, the most successful manufacturing organizations recognize that sustainability is not only good for business but is also integral to the way products are marketed, purchased, and operated. It should influence all decisions about engineering, operations, and maintenance,…

More about people than machines, the power of a CMMS can help your organization experience major positive change. By John Bernet, Fluke Reliability The maintenance world has undergone a transformation for some time with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), yet many maintenance teams still face roadblocks to implementing a Reliability-Centered Maintenance plan. RCM embraces…

  You’ve escaped pilot purgatory, cleared organizational obstacles, and are now in position to implement an advanced analytics system that will significantly improve manufacturing performance. With a well-defined IT architecture for your solution and a wide array of beneficial use cases, one nagging question may remain: How will I convince my colleagues to take the…

The words maintenance and maintainability are often used interchangeably. Maintenance is the performance of fixing or replacing an asset. Maintainability is a designed-in parameter. As shown in the graph, by the time a machine is built, you’ve lost more than 95% of the possibility for life-cycle cost reductions. Maintainability needs to be implemented in the…