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 ...

Keeping equipment, tools, and vehicles in top working order is as critical to a contractor as keeping a surgical knife sharp and sterile is to a brain surgeon. Can you imagine the problems a brain ...

Please could you give our readers a brief introduction to ServiceGuard? ServiceGuard is the name of the structure and “umbrella concept”, covering all Struers “service” offerings to customers in the ...

In today’s plastics injection molding manufacturing world, experiencing unscheduled downtime due to a machine breakdown can be an expensive and painful experience. In addition, it often occurs at the ...

Members pictured from left to right. The concept of predictive maintenance is familiar to anyone who has owned a car—you regularly have the vehicle inspected, change fluids, replace tires, change ...

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 ...

Proactive maintenance and reactive maintenance may sound similar, but while they are not polar opposites, each is a way of performing maintenance that differs greatly. A paper published in the ...