Ed Spence is the Managing Director of The Machine Instrumentation Group, a network of consulting and contract engineering ...

Noria Corporation is excited to be exhibiting at the SMRP 2025 Annual Conference, October 6–9 in Fort Worth, TX!

Although every company is unique, there are some maintenance and reliability truths that apply to most organizations. These case studies look at many forms of maintenance, leadership, processes, ...

The statistics are startling — up to 80 percent of all computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) implementations have failed. When considering the costs associated with a CMMS project, an ...

Recently, I saw a sign in a plant that read, “Maintenance – To Maintain, Keep, Preserve and Protect.” This might not be your view of maintenance. It is, however, the view of maintenance to take if ...

Aleris International, Inc. announced August 2 that it has completed the purchase of the downstream aluminum business of Corus Group plc. The acquisition includes Corus's aluminum rolling and extrusion ...

On April 4, the diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced it has completed the purchase of The Moeller Group, as announced in Eaton’s December 20, 2007 news release. “This ...

Many experts working in the field of vibration analysis will agree that resonance is a very common cause of excessive machine vibration. Resonance is the result of an external force vibrating at the ...

Today’s paper industry is far different than the industry we knew even five years ago. Increased foreign competition and a slowing domestic economy have fueled the consolidation of the U.S. paper ...

It's estimated that 50 to 70 percent of vibration issues in rotating machinery are caused by misalignment, according to Texas A&M's OAKTrust study on coupling misalignment forces. In fact, reliability ...

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. Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is ...