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Maintenance and Safety

What are the Benefits of Preventive Maintenance?

Your physical assets, such as your equipment and machinery, are the backbone of your business. However, equipment failures cannot be eliminated—they will happen. Fortunately, a preventive maintenance process can help you maintain these assets and extend their lifespans. In today’s blog we’ll discover five key benefits of preventive maintenance. But first, let’s briefly get into …

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Preventive vs Predictive Maintenance: The Difference

In today’s blog, we’ll be talking about preventive vs predictive maintenance — both of which are designed to increase the reliability of assets, and reduce the risk of equipment breakdowns and failures.  Preventive vs Predictive Maintenance What is Preventive Maintenance? Think of preventive maintenance (PM), or also known as planned maintenance or planned preventive maintenance, …

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): What is it?

What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness? Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a manufacturing metric that was established by Seiichi Nakajima, the pioneer of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), in the 1980s. It is used to measure the productivity level of equipment and is made up of three factors. These three factors identify how efficient equipment is during …

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Four Most Common Causes of Equipment Failure

There are many common causes of equipment failure as it is a regular phenomenon in the manufacturing industry. But, equipment failure are two words maintenance managers and leaders dread to hear. This is because it can result in manufacturing downtime, higher repair costs, health and safety implications for employees, and affect production and the delivery …

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