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How a Steel Plant Cut Unplanned Downtime by 70 Percent with Ops
In this episode of The Operations Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into how a mid-sized steel plant in the Midwest slashed unplanned downtime by 70 percent—not by buying fancy new equipment, but by rethinking how they monitored their most critical machinery. They explore the shift from reactive maintenance to condition-based monitoring, using vibration sensors and thermal imaging to catch failures before they happened. The conversation gets into the nitty-gritty of data overload, how the plant's operators learned to trust the sensors, and the surprisingly low-tech change that made the biggest…
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