Preventive maintenance can help manufacturers extend the lifespan of additive manufacturing machinery and the parts that they manufacture. However, the required cost and time commitment can make it ...

This article was contributed by Eric Whitley, Director of Smart Manufacturing at L2L. The global aerospace parts manufacturing market, valued at USD 851 billion in 2021, is expected to continue its ...

Bear with me. I know much has already been written about predictive and preventative maintenance for manufacturers, and by maintenance professionals who have spent their entire careers in this field.

The semiconductor industry is entering a critical transition phase toward Autonomous Semiconductor Fabs, driven by escalating ...

In many fabrication shops, dust collection and fume extraction systems do their job quietly—until they don’t. Because they ...

The digital universe is growing by 40 per cent each year, set to reach 44 trillion GB in 2020, with enterprises responsibile for around 85 per cent of this data. Manufacturing plants are just one type ...

A new year and decade provide an occasion for predictions regarding the state of analytics in the process industries. After three decades of data generated by digitizing control systems, stored in ...

Preventative maintenance refers to tasks that maintain assets on a regular basis to optimize performance and prevent unexpected breakdowns that could push up asset tracking costs. Depending on the ...

Is your facility struggling to design an effective preventive maintenance (PM) program? An endless parade of books and articles tell us how to “do” PM. But it’s one thing to read and another entirely ...

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) considers preventive maintenance a form of hazard control in the workplace that prevents injuries. OSHA regulations require employers to ...