One metric that gets misused is total downtime. One way to quickly reduce total downtime is to avoid taking equipment down for necessary maintenance. Often, this approach is pushed by short-sighted ...

Production lost to unplanned downtime varies greatly among plants in the same company ... The survey asked about the most common metrics used to track reliability and reduce unplanned downtime, ...

Chilean state miner Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, is targeting production of 1.391 million metric tons of the ...