Highlights from a maintenance and reliability audit

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Highlights from a maintenance and reliability audit

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Jun 9, 2020

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Staffers in many plants in modern industry are assigned to job functions related to reliability assessment and implementation. How these reliability-related job functions are carried out varies greatly from plant to plant.Learn more in this AVEVA sponsored podcast.
For comments or feedback, please contact: podcast@hydrocarbonprocessing.com

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Jun 9, 2020

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A weekly podcast from Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine for the downstream, petrochemical, refining and gas processing industries. It’s easy to subscribe, just click the subscribe button on iTunes or Blubrry.

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