Outsourcing may go against the “Just do it” spirit of the entrepreneur, but there are a lot of advantages to outsourcing various aspects of your business. For one, as much as it’s hard to admit, you’re not an expert in everything. Outsourcing allows focused individuals to work on one aspect of your business, doing what they do best while you do what you do best.

Digitalisation, Industry 4.0 and IoT transform the industrial landscape at a breath-taking pace. The technological development is rapid, but the successful application also requires human skills and capabilities. What are the most topical issues that should be included in the curriculum of newcomers and for those already in the profession?

Have you ever experienced a Reliability and Maintenance Improvement Project where it feels like you are drowning? High level project plans, a lot of meetings and the latest buzzwords being thrown around to describe what you should do. Sound familiar?

Each year the recycling industry in the United States manufactures 130 million metric tons of material into commodities that are used in new products. In recognition of the industry’s contributions to American manufacturing, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) joins in the celebration of National Manufacturing Day. 

ODVA  announced that it has entered into separate agreements to further integrate FDT and FDI technologies into EtherNet/IP™. Additional device description work on the next generation xDS™ for CIP™ devices also continues to move forward. 

Thirty-five years after the Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to take a spacewalk, a new historical event took place above our heads on 18 October 2019. Two Nasa astronauts took the first all-female spacewalk. It was not just for fun, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir were responsible for replacing defective equipment from the International Space Station (ISS), and in that way also formed the first female maintenance team in the space.

Euromaintenance 2016 will take place in Athens at the end of May. It is the ideal moment to reflect on maintenance in a European context. Euromaintenance is known as the summit for all involved in maintenance across Europe, it’s the place to be. The conference, with the support of the EFNMS, is the only commercially independent conference covering the topics we deal with in the maintenance world.