ASSET MAPS | CRIME LAB | RESOURCES Equipment Anatomy, Decoded. Master Reliability introduces interactive AM Asset Maps with Abnormal Fingerprints—designed to give your team total clarity on equipment health. The Conveyor Belt Anatomy Explorer Mastering reliability starts with seeing what others miss. Our latest Explorer tool allows operators and reliability teams to navigate complex machinery by assembly and component, bridging the gap between normal function and emerging fai

Improving Effective Communications Between Departments. Implementing Asset Maps at the Point of Use (POU)

Frontline workers, supervisors, and managers often face challenges when creating clear and effective shift passdowns and defect cards. These tools are essential for smooth operations, yet many teams struggle to capture and communicate critical information efficiently. The Reliability Crime Lab (RCL) offers a practical solution with the Do You Know Where Your 24 Hours Go Field Guide. This guide, combined with the RCL Effective Shift Passdown and Defect Card Generator, can tran

We discuss how effectively use an Infrared Gun to identify bearing misalignment.

We teach the user how to effectively implement operator condition-based monitoring for bearing misalignment using an inexpensive but powerful infrared Gun.

We provide how to train operators to use inexpensive but effective tools for identifying spalling before it leads to catastrophic failure.

The Best Detective on the Line Is the Operator How teaching operators to recognize the fingerprints of failure transforms them into your most powerful condition-based monitoring system.

A quick guide on effectively implementing autonomous maintenance.

Understanding how touch can aid defect detection and prevention.

Using Infrared Thermometers for detecting bearing issues.

Understand how operators make effective equipment prevention detectives

5-Sense Detection Fingerprints

In this article we review failure modes to predict failure lifetimes.

Bearing particulate contamination and resulting damage

Using sound to detect potential equipment failures

The lights are flashing, the line is moving, and suddenly—everything stops. A proximity sensor mounted on a high-vibration conveyor belt has shifted out of alignment… again. What should be a simple detection tool turns into a silent failure point, creating downtime, defects, and frustration. If you've worked in production, you've experienced this phenomenon at least once: A sensor that shifts, misreads, or fails—again and again—despite being “fixed” each time. What if we told

From the fairgrounds to the factory floor, the small things matter. Our new poster teaches teams how to choose the right part for the right job—with intention, safety, and long-term reliability in mind. Right Part, Right Job.