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Firehawk Aerospace
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The company’s CEO said the move would put it closer to end-to-end missile manufacturing.
Dec. 23, 2025
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A statement from the Kentucky governor's office said the expansion would create 66 new jobs.
Dec. 23, 2025
Bad Boy Tractors
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The company plans for the site to produce about 9,000 tractors a year.
Dec. 22, 2025
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A look at recent business moves made by manufacturing and industrial companies to expand and consolidate their businesses.
Dec. 22, 2025

Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast

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In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Robert Brooks of American Machinist highlights research improving turbine blade durability.
Dec. 11, 2025
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Podcast: 4 myths about occupational exoskeletons
In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, learn what is real and what is fake when it comes to occupational exoskeletons.
Dec. 9, 2025
Podcast: Year-end maintenance lessons and keeping crews engaged, safe, and production-ready during the holidays
In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Joe Kuhn also discusses why Santa’s workshop might be the most reliable plant on Earth and what the elf toy-making ...
Dec. 4, 2025
Podcast: How military precision can improve safety performance in manufacturing operations
In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Caroline Johnson of DEKRA discusses bridging military discipline with industrial safety needs.
Dec. 3, 2025

Predictive Maintenance

Case Study: Advanced thermal camera with app-driven intelligence streamlines electrical testing workflows for Blackmon Power
Large-job inspection reporting time for the service contractor fell from 8-12 hours to under five minutes.
Nov. 25, 2025
Case Study: Advanced IoT and AI solidify KONE’s elevator and escalator predictive maintenance services
Learn how KONE achieved 70% more proactive fault detection and 40% fewer service disruptions across connected people-flow assets.
Oct. 15, 2025
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Reliability technologies come in many forms, but the strategies share common goals
Oct. 7, 2025
The true cost of manufacturing downtime: Why uptime must be a strategic KPI
Understand how financial leaders benefit when uptime data is integrated into strategic planning.
Sept. 30, 2025

Planned Maintenance

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Why firefighting is the superior maintenance and turnaround strategy
Planning is for the weak – embrace the exhilaration and chaos of nothing but emergency work!
Dec. 17, 2025
Reliability takes flight: Lessons from WWII fighter aircraft design
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This article explores how WWII fighter designs reveal core reliability principles still essential in today’s industrial and manufacturing environments.
Nov. 26, 2025
Maintenance Mindset: The hidden DNA of reliable systems
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Haeckel’s 'Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny' explains why reliability isn’t built overnight—it evolves through data, correction, and the inherited lessons of past designs.
Nov. 12, 2025
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Disaster recovery could come down to an accurate spare parts list and asset hierarchy. Where does your facility stand?
Nov. 6, 2025

Motors & Drives

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New technology enables variable-speed control without a traditional variable frequency drive
Dec. 15, 2025
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Evaluate whether your team is prepared to detect early warning signs, apply proper grounding methods, and use condition monitoring effectively.
Dec. 5, 2025
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Experts at Schaeffler Group discuss the proper maintenance tools and advanced technologies for bearing predictive maintenance
Nov. 18, 2025
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Experts at Schaeffler Group discuss stray current damage and new technologies and materials to boost bearing performance
Nov. 14, 2025

Compressed Air

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Test your knowledge of this critical component and see if you know how it affects energy efficiency, pressure stability, and compressor performance.
Oct. 3, 2025
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From leak detection to pressure control, do you know the proven strategies to optimize compressed air performance?
Aug. 29, 2025
Ask the Experts: How to achieve compressed air system efficiency gains
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In a time of business uncertainty and shrinking budgets, here's the top five actions that compressed air professionals recommend that plants should take to reduce their operating...
Aug. 19, 2025
Compressor system upgrades tackle reliability and contamination risks head-on
Sheila Kennedy explores how smart technologies are boosting compressor uptime, cutting maintenance needs, and improving overall system reliability.
June 17, 2025

Lubrication

The future of anti-wear chemistry: Copper’s role in industrial lubricants
Learn how copper additives (particularly copper oxides, salts, and nanoparticles) form tribofilms, reduce friction, and influence equipment reliability in industrial applications...
Dec. 8, 2025
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How KOH units standardize oil condition monitoring across industries
Discover why KOH equivalence is used to report TBN values and how it ensures consistency across oil condition monitoring programs.
Oct. 10, 2025
Maintenance Mindset: What color is your grease? Discover your plant’s lubrication personality
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It may not be parachutes, but this color-coded model can help you visually evaluate your lubrication program performance and identify areas for reliability improvement.
July 30, 2025
How to Mitigating Thickening in Industrial Systems
Discover the physical mechanisms behind grease thickening, the impact on lubrication systems, and practical engineering recommendations for preventing and mitigating this issue...
July 16, 2025

Learning Resources

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Whether operating under harsh or mild external conditions, environmental surroundings can put a great deal of stress on the pumping equipment that is required to run 365 days ...
Dec. 18, 2025
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Learn from a Fortune 100 company’s apprenticeship program, the roles they focus on, and their results. Also, find out how to build your own apprenticeship program from the ground...
Dec. 5, 2025
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The session will close with the importance of benchmarking to uncover energy waste and how to plan ahead to keep systems running reliably while reducing maintenance costs.
Dec. 9, 2025
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Take an in-depth look at AI-powered asset management and learn actionable solutions to common challenges.
Oct. 29, 2025