GLOBAL COMPETITIVE pressures have increased demands to keep plants running better, longer and more cost effectively by reducing unscheduled downtime and boosting uptime for machinery assets. Much of the responsibility to optimize asset efficiency falls on maintenance staffs. Yet they face numerous challenges in achieving the goal. For a variety of reasons personnel may not be able to follow precision maintenance practices to the letter; equipment maintenance is becoming more complicated; and environmental and safety laws have grown stricter.
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