Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Smart manufacturing technologies are making a significant impact on manufacturing operations ...

If you work in facilities, you know how a single broken machine can impact the overall production. Even a minor, unexpected breakdown is enough to disrupt ...

Two new series of bridge-type CMMs, Maxima and Maxima R, have been launched by LK Metrology for measurement of large, heavy, ...

From the 1980s to the early 2000s, many new software technologies, though created to serve distinct industry purposes, were largely new creations. In other words, they were not always built upon ...

Imagine keeping track of a manufacturing plant’s operations, logging maintenance requests, scheduling service and reordering parts for a substantial number of machines. Now imagine keeping track of ...

For starters, all maintenance-related data will be stored on a computer. In the days of old, managers would record all data in logs and journals. Nowadays, enterprise-level systems cannot afford to ...

A computerized maintenance management system may seem overwhelming when implemented in an old facility. The habits, equipment, and processes that are several decades old in older facilities are ...

One of the maintenance tools that came to prominence in the 1990s was the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). Initially, maintenance managers saw it as a way to replace the cumbersome ...