eMaint Articles
What Is Equipment Reliability? How To Calculate and Improve
More than one individual metric, equipment reliability offers big-picture insights into the efficiency, performance, and availability of your individual machines and your entire plant. In [...]
How To Reduce Downtime: The Complete Guide
What Is Downtime? Downtime is any amount of time where assets, machines, or even complete production lines aren’t running. During downtime, no goods are [...]
Maintenance Costs: How to Track, Manage, and Reduce Expenses
Whether it’s a room full of production equipment or a fleet of vehicles, every business has assets that keep it running. And with every [...]
What is Process Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (PFMEA)?
What Is Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)? Process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA) is an essential tool in industries where process [...]
Building Maintenance: Tools, Examples, and Best Practices
What is Building Maintenance? Building maintenance includes everything surrounding the general upkeep, landscaping, cleaning, and building repairs for commercial or residential buildings. It refers [...]
What is MRO? Maintenance, Repair, Operations – A Full Guide
Successful manufacturing companies must implement a proper maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) strategy to ensure their facilities are operating smoothly. This article will discuss [...]
Step-by-Step Guide to Stronger Preventive Maintenance
If you’re looking for a more reliable and proactive maintenance strategy, it’s time to implement a preventive maintenance schedule (PM schedule). Scheduling maintenance is often cumbersome, [...]
What Is Criticality Analysis? Use Cases & Examples
What is Criticality Analysis? Criticality analysis is a systematic approach to evaluate and prioritize assets based on the severity and likelihood of potential failures. [...]
What is Facility Maintenance? Types, Examples, Software
What Is Facility Maintenance? Facility maintenance involves the comprehensive management and upkeep of buildings, equipment, and infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and safety. By [...]
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): A Guide
Introduction to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)? Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a proactive management philosophy that involves all [...]