Editor's note: This is the first of a four-part series of articles. At Qantas Airways, there has been a long-standing tradition among flight crews and maintenance techs of exchanging humorous ...

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 ...

If you’ve worked in the maintenance department at a power plant, you know how important planning and scheduling are to success. There’s an old saying that goes, “plan the work, and work the plan.” ...

You probably already track key performance indicators (KPIs), such as meantime between failure (MBF), unscheduled downtime, work order completion rate, and work order backlog. If not, you should — and ...

The production department of any manufacturing plant exists to get product out the door, on time, within budget, and made to spec. The maintenance department of any manufacturing plant exists to ...

Facilities Management Maintenance Services Department is responsible for repairs and upkeep of building systems. The department is made up of dedicated, skilled building personnel and the licensed ...