With Industry 4.0 comes the first opportunity industrial organizations have had to implement a comprehensive, predictive-based maintenance approach.

I know that our people have always made the difference for our customers. Here’s a big Thank You to our team!

The quote, “Never waste a good crisis!” has been attributed to many people, including Winston Churchill. Upheaval breaks inertia, creating the opportunity

Everyone is talking about the shift in employee mindset that has made quality of life a high priority. Choosing lifestyle over pay has always been a characteristic of millennials and the pandemic has increased this tendency in all other generations.

Abe Lincoln famously quipped, “Give me six hours to cut down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” A few months ago, I announced the addition of PCA’s field engineering services, which are specifically designed to help keep your maintenance management tools sharp.

It’s a safe bet that most of us have heard the expression “The left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing” used to describe organizational disfunction. Just imagine the catastrophic consequences of playing a guitar in that condition!

Most people in maintenance do not really understand advanced analytics like artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Personally, I think advanced analytics have a lot to offer maintenance professionals, but I am an analytics geek.

Reliability is a good thing, like motherhood and apple pie. Everyone wants reliability because it means that your equipment always does what it should when you need it to; your business runs smoothly and everyone in the organization sees the benefits of increased uptime and operational performance. So it’s easy to see why the term Reliability has become so polluted.