by Ravinder Singh | Sep 7, 2026 | Industrial maintenance
Every plant has a downtime list. Most of them have two problems: too many codes for an operator to pick from in the 15 seconds before the machine restarts, and no rule for what a code means, so two shifts classify the same stop differently. The result is a Pareto...
by Ravinder Singh | Aug 31, 2026 | Industrial maintenance
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) are the two reliability KPIs every maintenance team needs — and together with OEE they tell you whether downtime comes from frequent failures or slow repairs. This free Excel calculator computes both...
by Ravinder Singh | Aug 13, 2026 | Industrial maintenance
Short answer: to calculate MTBF, MTTR and downtime-driven OEE loss from one source, record every stop or failure as a row in a single event log with a consistent set of fields — asset ID, start/end timestamps, stop type, a standardized reason code, time to repair,...
by Ravinder Singh | Jun 21, 2026 | Industrial maintenance
Total productive maintenance promises a plant that prevents failures instead of reacting to them, yet most teams stay stuck in firefighting because they cannot see equipment behavior until it breaks. This guide shows a reliability engineer how real-time data turns TPM...
by Ravinder Singh | Jun 12, 2026 | Industrial maintenance
Predictive Maintenance ROI for North American Manufacturers (2026): How to Build the Business Case Unplanned downtime costs US manufacturing an estimated $50 billion every year. The average hour of unplanned downtime now runs about $260,000 across sectors, and well...
by Ravinder Singh | Jun 12, 2026 | Industrial maintenance
Predictive Maintenance ROI for North American Manufacturers (2026): How to Build the Business Case Unplanned downtime costs US manufacturing an estimated $50 billion every year. The average hour of unplanned downtime now runs about $260,000 across sectors, and well...
