ATS

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Share Timely maintenance of production equipment is critical in manufacturing facilities. If corrective and preventive maintenance are not performed in a timely manner, it can lead to equipment failure, which in turn can result in unplanned downtime, late product delivery, a dent in your reputation and even a hit to your bottom line.

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Polytron

MAY 1, 2024

To address this, you realize you will need a strategy that leverages best practices and proven solutions to deliver significant improvement to performance, efficiency, planning, quality, inventory management, and maintenance. You need to push production to get more out of your existing assets.

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ATS

MARCH 26, 2024

Share Machine maintenance is an expense that eats into margins. For manufacturers in food and beverage, predictive maintenance provides a way to meet this challenge. Predictive maintenance is about anticipating when machinery needs attention based on history and data from condition monitoring sensors.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

PFMEA in manufacturing supports plant maintenance operations by identifying priorities for servicing and repair. Prior to process startup: Performing a PFMEA at this point can support the maintenance team in developing appropriate preventive maintenance strategies. What is PFMEA?

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ATS

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Share Maintenance is key to extending asset life, but servicing and repairs are only part of what’s involved. The practice of enterprise asset management encompasses maintenance but takes a broader, cradle-to-grave approach. MRO: Servicing, routine maintenance and repairs require materials and replacement parts.

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ATS

AUGUST 8, 2023

CAFM software provides the infrastructure to facilitate asset monitoring, maintenance planning, work order management, compliance tracking and more. In this blog post, we will explore how CAFM systems can help you to enable more efficient maintenance and operations. What are common capabilities of CAFM software?

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Scotland is expected to miss its infrastructure targets and will be forced to pause several of its schedule projects despite “significant” need , the public spending watchdog has said. As a result, plans for improving and building roads, railways and hospitals might be paused.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Making one really high-quality part and making 100,000 high-quality parts require very different thought processes and switching between the two can be a challenge, not to mention figuring out a schedule that can handle both types of jobs at the same time. Kinetic has also mastered its machines. It's integrated in our ERP system.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 23, 2022

Focus on Maintenance Management. I have worked with a number of maintenance and reliability media companies. They have all been embroiled in discussions of the comparative value of maintenance strategies: Reactive (run-to-failure), Preventive, Predictive, Reliability-centered. They were wrong.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 13, 2024

Each January Boral delivers a planned shutdown at its Berrima Cement Works facility in NSW – an event Coates Industrial Solutions has supported for 27 years with equipment hire, on-site tool stores and experienced personnel. The collaborative effort ensured maintenance works could continue safely and on schedule.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 18, 2024

The system also sends automated alerts to the user to remind them to schedule preventive maintenance on their machines. Source | Progressive Components Progressive Components presents ProFile v4, a cloud-based system for mold monitoring and asset management. Progressive proports several benefits to using the ProFile system.

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ATS

MARCH 18, 2024

Clearly, maintenance has a big role to play if the aircraft part manufacturing industry is to satisfy the demand from aircraft operators and air travelers. The problem is though, downtime, planned or unplanned, cuts into availability, so more preventive maintenance won’t necessarily help. This is where measurement comes in.

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ATS

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share When it comes to maintenance strategies, condition-based maintenance (CBM) and predictive maintenance (PdM) might initially seem like two sides of the same coin. This is why, before we go any further, we’ll define each maintenance strategy and how it works in detail. Let’s dive in!

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ATS

APRIL 5, 2024

Share Predictive maintenance minimizes machine downtime while extending life and reducing costs but requires data about their health and activity. Uses include: Predictive maintenance: Machine condition data can drive a maintenance strategy where work is done just before it becomes necessary. What is machine data?

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Manufacturing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Bottleneck Cycle time 59

Canadian Manufacturing

MARCH 21, 2024

The buses are scheduled to be delivered in 2025. The Nova Bus LFSe+ long-range electric bus reportedly provides reduced maintenance costs and improves air quality by eliminating all emission of pollutants and greenhouse gases. ” . ”

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AU Manufacturing

AUGUST 4, 2022

Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) has begun a major maintenance project that would overhaul the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) fleet of P-8A Poseidon aircraft— a major coup for the company and a first-of-its-kind in Australia. .

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 15, 2023

SAFETY & MAINTENANCE In the modern shop, machine uptime is critical to meet the ever-increasing demands on the metalworking industry. To keep machines running at peak performance, it’s critical to have an effective maintenance strategy. The traditional method for avoiding downtime is preventive maintenance.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Smart Services Defense is ideally suited for Bombardier’s Defense clients who may require a specific maintenance plan considering their high utilization or unique operating profiles.

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iBASEt

AUGUST 29, 2023

One area where digital transformation can have a significant impact is the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) of highly complex assets. A 360-degree view that blends engineering, planning, and execution performance data enables possibilities that are difficult if not impossible sans digital continuity.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

As robots enter multiple industries, ARO said its business model fulfills the demand for specialized maintenance and support. As robots enter multiple industries, ARO said its business model fulfills the demand for specialized maintenance and support. . | Credit: ARO Administrative Resource Options Inc., Schaumburg, Ill.-based

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ATS

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Simply upgrading how you handle maintenance can have a trickle effect that optimizes a number of different assets in your factory. If you want to minimize machine downtime, then you need to compare your maintenance schedule to what the designed maintenance frequency should be for each machine.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Share The 4 Main Types of Maintenance Strategies There are several different types of maintenance strategies that may be used in a successful manufacturing operation. Here, we will examine the different types of maintenance strategies in greater depth.

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 20, 2023

Back to basics – A need for a Total Productive Maintenance perspective Many of you reading this would’ve heard the terms “proactive”, “preventative” or “predictive” maintenance. One of the most common barriers to optimising your manufacturing facility’s productivity is the effective design, use and reliability of your equipment.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By pulling data from all devices within a manufacturing cell and synthesizing it with a company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other core systems, moldmakers can identify and take informed action on the following intelligence, and much more: Actual setup and run times. Machine statuses. Completed quantity. Scrap quantity.

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Infinite Uptime

JUNE 16, 2022

This is where IoT-driven Predictive maintenance can be a gamechanger. It reduces the risk of downtime & loss due to machine failure and reduces overall maintenance & spare part costs of high capital-intensive machinery. Types of machine maintenance in mining. Remote monitoring of equipment at far-off locations.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 21, 2024

The Mold Maintenance Center of Excellence carries on the legacy that former owner Steve Johnson created with his hands-on and lecture mold maintenance workshop. It took about six months of planning and hard work to bring the vision to reality in January 2024. Source, all images: Beaumont Technologies Inc.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Plan to upskill your team as you are planning your project. Thinking through the workflow with other departments will pave the road for customization, adoption and training. It is not a guaranteed panacea, and the pathway is riddled with pitfalls. Let us look at some of them. Know where the practical limits of your integration are.

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ATS

MARCH 26, 2024

Share Pharmaceutical manufacturing operations are challenging environments for asset maintenance. Internet of Things (IoT) technology provides a way to raise the effectiveness of maintenance. IoT in pharmaceutical manufacturing supports predictive maintenance strategies that lower costs while raising OEE. Industry 4.0

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ATS

MARCH 5, 2024

Share Maintenance affects more than just machine availability. The purpose of this blog is to let the maintenance department know how they can influence FPY and why they should seek out opportunities to do that. It also has a bearing on first pass yield (FPY). What is first pass yield? In a full hour it will produce 100 parts.

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ATS

AUGUST 8, 2023

With this understanding of the principles, we will take a closer look at the ways in which this type of AI is poised to impact the manufacturing industry, including analytics modeling, reporting and communications, maintenance support and more. Depending on the tool in use, this response may be text, images, sounds or music, and more.

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Polytron

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The start of the roaring 20s didn’t quite go as planned for most of us. On the upstream side, gaining real-time visibility into incoming materials allows for enhanced traceability, insights into supply disruptions, better planning and scheduling, and overall better analytics and forecasting.

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i4.0 today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For example, the guide details valuable information, best-practice actions and checklists in sections such as project preparation, project implementation, project operation and project maintenance. Engineers can learn from real-life examples about what to avoid and what can happen when automation adoption doesn’t go to plan.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 10, 2022

This means users can plan their preventive maintenance based around the exact hours of operation and the exact operations the hoist has done. The condition monitoring features enable the end user to actually plan any major servicing of the hoist,” he said. KITO has a global reputation for manufacturing hoists and cranes.

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Canadian Manufacturing

MARCH 6, 2023

based Sikorsky Aircraft say they have agreed on a plan to fix the autopilot problem that allows the CH-148 Cyclone’s computer to override the controls of its human pilots in certain situations. . “Discussions on this plan are ongoing, so it’s too early to discuss cost and schedule. Matthew Cousins, Sub-Lt.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Air~Alert also notifies customers and ELGi dealers about scheduled maintenance and fault occurrences while predicting commonly occurring failures. Monthly summary reports on overall health and operating parameters, including upcoming service requirements and preventative maintenance based on the data obtained, are sent to customers.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Kraken worked closely with MCM Denmark operators and workshop technicians as well as skilled local Danish shipyard, JOBI, to install Kraken’s DNV design approved Autonomous Launch and Recovery System (ALARS) onto the MSF-class in parallel with the MSF-class planned mid-life refit. JOHN’S — Kraken Robotics Inc. Commander (Navy) K.P.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 17, 2024

Predictive and preventive maintenance. Identifying these problems early and scheduling preventive maintenance activities reduces the risk of unexpected breakdowns and downtime. Identifying these problems early and scheduling preventive maintenance activities reduces the risk of unexpected breakdowns and downtime.

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