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Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in July for the twelfth consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the fifteenth consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business.

Aberdeen's fourth annual study on the topic of asset performance management (APM) will look into how industrial incidents have impacted organization's asset management strategy.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of publication of the ASHRAE/IES energy standard, now known as ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.

Energy Expert Peter Garforth says reliability, cost and environmental factors can affect availability.

The average time needed to restore an asset to its full operational capabilities after a failure. MTTR is a measure of asset maintainability. Tip excerpted from The Professional’s Guide To Maintenance And ReliabilityGet your copy today

Too many Preventive (PM) Maintenance programs contain ambiguous and needless tasks at unnecessary frequencies.  What makes this so shocking is that plant facilities send out their craftspeople to work thousands and thousands of hours each year, performing what should be the plant’s most important work, armed with ineffective and inefficient PM tasks and standards. The first step to optimizing your program is determining where to get started. In most plants, there are several sources of…

Another common misunderstood area of MP-2 is the SCHEDULING and UTILIZATION of crafts and employees. If established properly the calendar within MP-2 should be green, yellow, or red. There are a few things that must be established to take full advantage of SCHEDULING and UTILIZATION capabilities of the system. For example: The site SCHEDULE must be established with the normal workdays for the site. If the site works 24/7 then the site SCHEDULE would be…

An important corner-stone of any maintenance program is asset identification. Experienced maintenance workers know every machine within their area intimately, but for many others that may be given the task of lubrication it is not as easy to identify each machine (let alone each lubrication point). Each asset is to be clearly identified so there can be no mistaking machines and missing lubrication rounds. Each lubrication point is to be color coded as well as…

The safest practice for any electrical inspection, regardless of voltage or Arc Rating, is to freeze a good image and step clear to analyze (wearing appropriate PPE of course). However, in many plants, the escort will open all “buckets” in a vertical row and then move on. The Thermographer will typically scan the row, and then shut the buckets just to the latch. The escort then fastens them tight and the process repeats. If this…

PARSIPPANY, N.J., /PRNewswire/—UMS Group is pleased toannounce its appointment by the Institute of Asset Management as a PAS 55Endorsed Assessor. This appointment will enable us to certify compliancewith Publicly Available Specification 55 - the emerging global standard forAsset Management excellence, and now on the path to becoming an ISOStandard. As one of the contributors to the evolution of PAS 55, we at UMSGroup are proud to be among the initial group of 12 Endorsed Assessors.

Britain's manufacturers have outperformed expectations in the first half of 2010 but face the prospect of greater global economic uncertainty and financial market volatility in the rest of this year, according to latest analysis of the sector published by EEF.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the SME Education Foundation is focused on improving the quality of manufacturing education by encouraging increased attention to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.