We’ve all heard that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and that statement has never been more true than when it refers to protecting the equipment that keeps your business moving.

Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) is the application of preventive maintenance strategies in an organized and standardized method. Total preventive maintenance is an approach that places the ...

Unfortunately, truck breakdowns are inevitable. No preventive maintenance program is foolproof and problems can and do occur when your drivers are on the road. Having a relationship with a breakdown ...

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 ...

Equipment maintenance planning is incredibly complex. It requires tracking hours and suggested service schedules on each individual asset a company owns, keeping up with unexpected breakdowns and job ...

Cory Jansen, executive vice president of operations for Fastenal, knows a downed machine can cost a production line dearly. Each malfunction takes time and money to repair. Production time also is ...

When most people think of maintenance, they imagine people fixing equipment that’s broken and keeping facilities in working order. The term “maintenance” itself is deceiving, because it leads us to ...

FleetNet America announced unplanned roadside maintenance costs have increased 26% in the fourth quarter of 2019. This is the fourth consecutive quarter of increased roadside maintenance costs ...

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