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Maintenance Mindset: 7 industry innovations, led by STEM
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: 7 industry innovations, led by STEM

U.S. government agencies, universities and laboratories are working to advance U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and technologies like fusion energy and material sciences.
Maintenance Mindset: It's the end of oil analysis as we know it … and I feel fine
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: It's the end of oil analysis as we know it … and I feel fine

Discover the potential of AI in oil analysis while heeding T.S. Eliot's cautionary message.
Maintenance Mindset: What’s next for Trump’s tariffs, and how quickly will manufacturers feel the effects?
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: What’s next for Trump’s tariffs, and how quickly will manufacturers feel the effects?

Managing Editor Anna Townshend goes down the tariff rabbit hole to explore the process and presidential authority for enacting new global tariffs.
Maintenance Mindset: Why oil analysis fails for most — but automation can change that
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: Why oil analysis fails for most — but automation can change that

The shift towards automation and AI in oil analysis is already happening, and will move much of this work out of the lab and back onsite.
Maintenance Mindset: Meet Dextro, the robot performing maintenance on semiconductor equipment
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: Meet Dextro, the robot performing maintenance on semiconductor equipment

Fabs are booming and workers are scarce; this cobot may be the answer to certain workforce woes.
Maintenance Mindset: 6 maintenance musts in semiconductor manufacturing
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: 6 maintenance musts in semiconductor manufacturing

Older fabs are especially reliant on maintenance practices to keep legacy equipment and chips flowing.
Maintenance Mindset: A day in the life of a semiconductor equipment maintenance technician
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: A day on the job as a semiconductor equipment maintenance technician

Polar Semiconductor shares details about the work its maintenance technicians do, what skills they need, and how much they make.
Maintenance Mindset: Meet the winners of the DOD's 2024 Maintenance Innovation Challenge
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: Meet the winners of the DOD's 2024 Maintenance Innovation Challenge

Out of 77 entrants in categories from condition-based maintenance to logistics and inspections, the two big winners were mixed reality tele-maintenance and on-aircraft cold spray...
Maintenance Mindset: The future of emissions monitoring — Exploring NIST’s game-changing spectroscopy technology
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: The future of emissions monitoring — Exploring NIST’s game-changing spectroscopy technology

New laser technology from NIST researchers to measure greenhouse gas emissions could bring better methods to the plant floor.
Maintenance Mindset: How maintenance automation is reducing manual work on the plant floor
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: How maintenance automation is reducing manual work on the plant floor

Ai may be at the peak of its hype cycle, but it is also being combined with mature condition monitoring technology to reduce manual rounds (and help cover unfilled positions on...
Maintenance Mindset: Is manufacturing in space the key to affordable space travel and lunar exploration?
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: Is manufacturing in space the key to affordable space travel and lunar exploration?

NASA and The Ohio State University are testing whether a welding machine can perform in a simulated weightless environment.
Maintenance Mindset: What separates successful digital transformation projects from the rest?
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: What separates successful digital transformation projects from the rest?

This week, the PS team learns that digital projects succeed when the C-suite and IT take equal ownership.
Maintenance Mindset: Why domestic clean energy manufacturing still relies on foreign materials
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: Why domestic clean energy manufacturing still relies on foreign materials

This week, the PS team examines the final rules for Advanced Manufacturing Production Credits, which outlines tax incentives for clean energy component manufacturers.
Maintenance Mindset: Which clean energy components qualify for the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit?
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Maintenance Mindset: Which clean energy components qualify for the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit?

This week, the PS team lists some of the components for clean energy manufacturing that will be eligible for tax credits under the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit.
Maintenance Mindset: How right to repair is revolutionizing McFlurry machine maintenance
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: How right to repair is revolutionizing McFlurry machine maintenance

This week, the PS team examines key victories in the right to repair movement in the U.S.
Maintenance Mindset: Little’s Law and lean manufacturing — A formula for operational excellence
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: Little’s Law and lean manufacturing — A formula for operational excellence

This week, the PS team remembers the life and work of the theorem’s namesake John D.C. Little and its influence on lean manufacturing.
Maintenance Mindset: Why smart manufacturers are investing in AI — and you should too
Maintenance Mindset

Maintenance Mindset: Why smart manufacturers are investing in AI — and you should too

This week, the PS team talks with Microsoft's Kathleen Mitford about the impact of AI on manufacturing.