Plant maintenance needs to be done in a calculated manner. With the scarce resources that businesses are restricted to using during maintenance, it is essential to ensure that every resource is optimized. Ideally, embracing a risk-based approach to plant maintenance is among the best ways to improve the performance of your plant.    

Access to clean water remains a significant problem in Africa, yet smartphones are widespread throughout the continent today. Introducing mobile payment to solar-powered water purification units combines the challenge and solution, making Solar Water ATMs a business opportunity for impact investors.

Scenario:

You are the Reliability Engineer responsible for developing an in-house condition based PM program.  One item you’re monitoring is an important process fan. This fan is located on a large cooling bed for spray-dried materials and is running 24/7.

The automation of processes is nothing new these days. Buzzwords like digital transformation, chatbots, matching technologies, robot recruiting, and the like are on everyone’s tongues.

Each year, 1,300 people in Britain suffer life-changing injuries as a result of a lift truck accident. Forklifts are the most dangerous form of workplace transport and account for 25 percent of workplace transport injuries.

According to a Marketwatch report. In 2018, businesses have spent 787.2 million US dollars in buying and implementing computerised maintenance management software (CMMS). 

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.