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Reliable Plant November 2025
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My company has spent over two decades in manufacturing, and we've seen the same movie play out in plant after plant: Operations and Maintenance locked in an endless battle, each blaming the other for every problem. Operations wants to run machines at full throttle to hit production numbers. Maintenance needs downtime to keep those same machines from turning into expensive scrap metal.
The Polaroid camera clicked, and Keith Schafer peeled back the negative to reveal another oscilloscope trace of an engine's heartbeat, black and white and frozen in time. It was the late 1980s, and this was cutting-edge condition monitoring: no digital storage, no cloud databases, just endless catalogs of photographs that Schafer would compare by hand, looking for patterns that signaled trouble...
Soft foot poses a challenge for plant operations and maintenance personnel. The common term for machine frame distortion, soft foot is caused when one or more feet of a machine are...
What does the manufacturing industry look like in Oklahoma? In this episode of Gear Talk, Wes Cash sits down with Lieutenant Governor Matt Pinnell to discuss the manufacturing industries prevalent in the state of Oklahoma and identify what steps are being taken to bring more skilled professionals to the state and reduce the skills gap.
The case studies provided in this article are actual data analyzed by the author. The predictive maintenance case study representing vibration analysis will present examples and comparisons of...
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