eMaint Articles
What is Proactive Maintenance?
What is Proactive Maintenance? Proactive maintenance is a forward-thinking strategy focused on identifying and addressing the leading causes of equipment failures before they result [...]
Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO)
Maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) refers to all actions taken to ensure that machinery, tools, and facilities are in good working order. The right [...]
What is Property Maintenance? Key Practices Explained
Property maintenance is essential for keeping building occupants safe and happy. It’s also an effective way to retain property value and comply with local [...]
What is Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM)? Stages, Benefits, & Best Practices
Proper asset lifecycle management is vital to ensuring your organization runs at peak efficiency. Asset lifecycle management (also known as lifecycle asset management) is [...]
What is Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)? CBM Maintenance Definition, Strategy, Examples
What is Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)? Condition-based maintenance, or CBM, is a maintenance strategy in which work is performed based on asset condition. Maintenance [...]
Failure Mode, Effects, & Criticality Analysis – FMECA & FMEA
Today, most manufacturing operations face time, budget, and expertise constraints. Every part of a system plays a role in the manufacturer’s success. And while [...]
DFMEA vs. PFMEA
Identifying the failure modes of processes, designs, and assets is a critical part of continuous improvement for manufacturers. Completing a failure mode and effect [...]
Understanding OOE: A Guide to Overall Operations Effectiveness
What is OOE? Overall operations effectiveness (OOE) is a metric used to measure the availability of manufacturing equipment along production lines. Unlike its counterpart, [...]
What is Corrective Maintenance? Essential Guide and Best Practices
What is Corrective Maintenance? Corrective maintenance is the process of repairing or restoring equipment and systems after failure or when a defect has been [...]
Maintainability: Key Concepts and Measures
What is Maintainability? Maintainability refers to the ease with which an asset or piece of equipment can be maintained to ensure it continues to [...]