Keeping equipment, tools, and vehicles in top working order is as critical to a contractor as keeping a surgical knife sharp and sterile is to a brain surgeon. Can you imagine the problems a brain ...

Weibull analysis can be used to examine a myriad of failures and problems, including equipment breakdowns. By better understanding why and when breakdowns happen, companies can better tailor their ...

Members pictured from left to right. The concept of predictive maintenance is familiar to anyone who has owned a car—you regularly have the vehicle inspected, change fluids, replace tires, change ...

In the Dec. 4, 2017 issue of The NEWS, I discussed some common obstacles that customers present when offered a preventive maintenance agreement and solutions to overcome them. This week, let’s take a ...

A healthy fleet is the key to a thriving logistics business. And you can’t keep a healthy fleet without regular vehicle maintenance. But with a few different types of maintenance at your disposal, ...

Proactive maintenance and reactive maintenance may sound similar, but while they are not polar opposites, each is a way of performing maintenance that differs greatly. A paper published in the ...