Shutdowns are the largest driver of lost production. However, not all shutdowns are made equal. Did you know that unplanned downtime can cost up to 5 times as much as planned? With unplanned downtime ...

Seasoned manufacturing professionals know the assets that make their products – the assembly robots, CNC machines, and conveyor belts – are just as important as the final products themselves. These ...

The waste collection industry generated $69 billion in revenue in 2024, accounting for over two-thirds of the total US waste and recycling revenue. Logistics is the cornerstone of this industry, given ...

Scientists have developed a machine-learning model – utilizing K-Means and long short-term memory techniques – that aims to overcome ‘fault detection and classification’ in the operation and ...

Editor’s Note: For multidisciplinary engineers in the machine design space, this article sheds light on an often overlooked opportunity of maximizing planned downtime to improve machine reliability ...

In the era of Industry 4.0, manufacturing is no longer defined solely by mechanical precision; it’s now driven by data, connectivity, and intelligence. Yet downtime remains one of the most persistent ...

RFID is not a new technology, so professionals have discovered many of its practical applications. However, while several industries rely on it for asset tracking, relatively few have deployed it to ...

Two common asset management metrics whose relevance has grown in importance even as new analytic technologies such as predictive maintenance have emerged are “mean time to repair” (MTTR) and “mean ...