April 2025

One of the latest unfortunate trends in maintenance and reliability is to take shortcuts. By learning why all reliability efforts must start with informed and qualified leaders, as well as what it takes to embody an owner mindset, those responsible can build reliability wins across the company.

As seasoned workers retire and younger generations pursue diverse career paths, maintenance and reliability teams in these organizations are increasingly strained, struggling to service equipment on time and keep operations running smoothly. To bridge this gap, organizations must consider technology-driven solutions that automate routine tasks and provide critical insights to support leaner teams.

Read about how reliability-centered maintenance works, how you should implement it and see how reliability-centered maintenance can benefit you.

For those implementing operator-driven reliability as part of a lean manufacturing journey, you're probably calling this Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). To help avoid common pitfalls, here are seven reasons why TPM initiatives can sometimes fail.

Root cause analysis is a systematic approach for uncovering the root cause of problems. Read about how to conduct a root cause analysis, common root cause analysis tools and more.

Process management (sometimes referred to as process discipline) is the key tool in management for efficient processes with predictable results — nothing has more impact. It is worthless to know a best practice and not have the organizational discipline to execute it consistently.