Reliable Plant May 2025

Generative AI (GenAI) represents the next major shift in reliability management, offering the ability to process vast amounts of structured and unstructured data and generate intelligent, adaptive solutions.

...John and I will explore and clarify the challenges facing maintenance and reliability professionals considering wireless condition monitoring systems for their operations. We’ll describe the technology, contextualize it within traditional tools and practices, assess its potential to augment a PdM program, and ultimately offer guidance...

Imagine a business strategy—grounded in proven engineering principles—that any manufacturer could use to maximize output capacity, increase sustainability and generate gains. It exists, and there's never been a better time to implement it.

It stands to reason—the more complex an enterprise’s operations, the more intricate the facility that must house it. Designing heavily-engineered facilities, such as ultra-modern manufacturing plants and high-tech testing labs, demands significantly more planning than simpler structures like offices or warehouses...

In Reliable Plant, we spend a lot of time discussing reliability. It makes sense since reliability is part of the publication's name. For our purposes, "reliability" refers to an organization's ability to depend on its manufacturing processes to perform their intended functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time, thereby delivering value to shareholders and other stakeholders.

Preventive maintenance is an established routine of periodically inspecting equipment, noticing small issues and fixing them before they turn into major problems.

A single-point lesson is a one-page procedure clearly defining key points by using short-form text and pictures. Read about various types of single-point lessons, how to design one and more.