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Supply chain challenges and increasing material costs have thrown many buildout and construction projects into chaos. Here are some tips on ensure projects run smoothly. The ongoing pandemic has impacted many industries across the globe, including the design, architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management professions. Between increased demand, heightened inflation, supply chain delays, and the…

  Developments in digital mapping are allowing universities to make buildings smarter and introduce new efficiencies in how they operate. Dr Addy Pope, Higher Education Manager at Esri UK, examines the growth of indoor mapping in higher education Landscapes, cities and buildings have long been digitally mapped, allowing better decisions to be made about how…

Society has started the long march toward living in harmony with nature’s realities. There is no other way forward. And where goes society, so goes the economy. As concluded in the seminal circular economy report “Turning Point,” issued by the Council of Canadian Academies, material extraction and waste are exceeding planetary thresholds. We are using…

Advanced-analytics tools make it possible for engineers and other SMEs to greatly increase productivity and overall plant reliability. In the process-manufacturing industries, there has been a significant increase in the amount, complexity, and accessibility of operational and equipment data. Engineering teams now have visibility into historical and near-real-time data, from local and remote locations. Add…

Digital technologies allow teams to take an informed approach to asset maintenance. Nine of ten manufacturers now say digital transformation is important to their organization’s success. While digitalization can improve virtually any aspect of your operations—from throughput to quality to sustainability—perhaps no area has more potential for improvement than maintenance.  Maintenance activities remain inherently inefficient…

By Mark Barnes, PhD CMRP, Des-Case Corp. The Stribeck Curve and the Hersey number are your primary tools for selecting proper lubricant viscosity. For rotating equipment, proper lubricant selection is critical to asset reliability. Done correctly, equipment can live a long and healthy life; done poorly, asset life will be significantly reduced. Of course, original…