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Reliable Plant June 2025
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Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) sounds like the kind of thing we should’ve been doing all along, right? Monitor your assets, wait for them to tell you something’s off, then go fix it—none of that blanket PM work or premature part swaps. In theory, it’s elegant. In practice? That’s where it gets messy.
Let’s be honest—choosing the wrong condition monitoring sensor can wreck your uptime, drain your budget, and frustrate your team. Too often, I see companies make avoidable mistakes when choosing condition monitoring solutions—and I want to help you steer clear of them.
When launching a condition monitoring program, it’s natural to feel pressure to act fast—install sensors, collect data, and start predicting failures. But before you start installing sensors on every asset in your facility, it’s worth asking a crucial question: Which machines actually matter most?
The Reliable Plant 2025 Conference & Exhibition, held June 2-5 at the Schaumburg Convention Center near Chicago, Illinois, took attendees on an exciting journey along the "Route to Reliability." Drawing inspiration from the historic Route 66, the conference showcased how industry professionals are navigating the changing landscapes of reliability and maintenance to reach peak...
In this episode of Gear Talk, Wes sits down with Scott Fry, Director of Workforce Development at MidAmerica Industrial Park, to explore one of the biggest challenges facing industry today: workforce recruitment and development.
Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that monitors the real-time condition of an asset to determine what maintenance needs to be performed.
These days, if you’re a leader of any type, you can’t simply order people around and expect them to do what you want. They may follow your directions, if you are watching, but once they’re left on their own they’ll go back to doing what they think is important. Leaders today, more than ever before, have to win people’s cooperation.
Infrared thermography is the process of using a thermal imager to detect radiation from an object. Read about how infrared thermography works and how to use it in preventive maintenance.
