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  Today’s operation, maintenance, and storage facilities (OMSF) are often immense. They commonly appear to have abandoned the human scale that helps define the architectural language of successfully built environments: Oversized garage doors, expansive and uninterrupted facades, large parking lots, and enormous sites. The buildings seem made for giants, not people. In truth, they’re made…

  Six condition-monitoring technologies can help you prevent catastrophic motor-bearing failure. It is estimated that bearing faults account for approximately half of all failures in electric machines. The consequences of failure can result in unplanned downtime, machine breakdowns, equipment damage, and financial losses. To prevent this and ensure consistent performance, effective bearing maintenance is essential….

Ignore short-term thinking and invest in PM practices to realize sustainable financial gains. Does it feel as if your organization’s reliability initiative is slowly suffocating due to the demands of the stock market? Does it feel like the expectation of short-term financial results leaves you with few, to no, options to improve reliability in your…

  Benefit from your cobot investment with some advanced planning and application analysis. The introduction and implementation of collaborative robots in factory settings over the past decade has been a boon for manufacturers of all sizes. Compared with their industrial robot counterparts, cobots (collaborative robots) are typically smaller, more flexible, easier to program, and safer…

As our world becomes unpredictably hotter due to climate change caused by carbon emissions, governments and organizations are taking increasingly bolder actions to curb and mitigate associated risks. One fascinating emergence from this past summer has been the emergence of Chief Heat Officers (CHO). Among other cities, we’ve seen Miami, Phoenix, and Los Angeles all…

  Nearly every day, a new report comes to my attention that evaluates an existing problem or proposes how to solve one. Most frequently, the new insights are incremental. Reducing the parts per million concentration of an air pollutant, achieving continuous annual improvement in energy efficiency or increasing municipal recycling rates all illustrate the predominant…