Regular maintenance and inspections are a critical component of equipment operational efficiency. Undermaintaining equipment, especially high-use compact to midsize machinery, can happen for a variety ...

Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) is the application of preventive maintenance strategies in an organized and standardized method. Total preventive maintenance is an approach that places the ...

The Renishaw Set-and-Inspect app (shown with a Mazak Smooth Maintenance interface) supports probe calibration, part setting, tool setting, and component inspection. The expanding availability of touch ...

Equipment inspections should be performed by drivers or operators on a routine basis and periodically by fleet mechanics. As part of these inspections, a visual inspection should include the following ...

In many fabrication shops, dust collection and fume extraction systems do their job quietly—until they don’t. Because they ...

The heart of any construction fleet training program is its people: machine operators and technicians who keep the machines moving. Theresa F. Anderson, CEM, corporate equipment manager for Parsons ...

Is your facility struggling to design an effective preventive maintenance (PM) program? An endless parade of books and articles tell us how to “do” PM. But it’s one thing to read and another entirely ...

Most facilities today have well-thought-out maintenance programs. However, many facility managers are still asking one question: Which is better for my electrical system—preventive maintenance or ...

As service operations and processes become more complex, advanced technologies such as AI have become indispensable tools for many businesses in the construction industry. In 2023, the global AI ...