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1 Minute Maintenance Tip - Effective Work Procedures

1 Minute Maintenance Tip

Effective Work Procedures

5 Minute Audio Tip - Maintenance Function Tip

Click the play arrow below tp hear Ricky Smith CMRP discuss the maintenance function.

 

 

A Business-Based Approach to Developing an Effective Program

by Krzysztof (Kris) Goly

Over the last decade, there has been a general consensus throughout the industry that modern maintenance and plant asset management require the implementation of predictive maintenance techniques. In most instances, predictive technologies are implemented in the form of a Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Program.  PdM programs are designed and implemented through various approaches.  This article presents a business-based approach that has been utilized successfully by Siemens throughout the world and across various industries.

A Day in the Life of a Proactive Maintenance Supervisor

A Daily Planner for Effective Maintenance Supervision

By Ricky Smith CMRP

Maintenance supervisor updates equipment status and production/operation changes.

A New Activity Matrix - Why Being Proactive is No Longer Enough

by Phillip Slater

It was about ten minutes before anyone noticed the smoke. The wiring had been heating up since the most recent planned maintenance activity. Apparently, the electrician didn't quite tighten up the joint and hadn't properly cleaned away the built up dust. The result was a hot joint and this heat quickly spread into the cable. The casing began to smoke and by the time the smoke was noticed the cabinet was actually on fire.

A Vision of Enterprise Reliability

Looking Into the Future of the Industry

by Dennis Belanger


What is the ultimate vision for enterprise reliability?  If you’re like me, occasionally you find yourself drifting off into a day dream.  One of the recurring day dreams I’ve been having for the last 10 years involves this question.  I often lapse into deep thought, pondering, “How is all of this reliability and maintenance stuff supposed to work?

Are the Improvement Tools Working? A Survey of Practices

Over the past year I've worked with Terry O'Hanlon to do a series of webinars on the most popular tools in the market place for improving manufacturing/operational performance in industrial plants. As part of these webinars, we've asked participants to answer a set of questions related to their practices to get a sense of how well they were working. Many of their responses were encouraging - 42% are working to apply lean manufacturing principles, of which 70% of those say its working; many are using the various tools in a sustainable way. And, more than 95% rated safety as a top priority.

Are You Proactive? A Daily Planner for Effective Maintenance Management

By Ricky Smith

In the maintenance and reliability industry, the definition for proactive is:

• To act before the cost of doing so increases
• To act before the necessity of the situation demands it.

"A great maintenance manager sees the relationship of poor performance and the lack of good maintenance routines." "Poor performance always leads to the lack of maintenance routines or poor execution of existing routines." - Rick Mullen, Global Reliability Leader, Anheuser-Busch InBev

Are You Proactive? A Day in the Life of a Maintenance Technician

What is a Proactive Maintenance Technician?

A proactive maintenance technician is a highly- trained professional who is an expert in his or her skills area, has knowledge of other skills areas, including safety and production, and has a desire to learn more. This professional knows and can implement a failure modes driven maintenance strategy for any piece of equipment. A proactive maintenance technician uses knowledge and experience to ensure the maintenance process is optimized by making constructive recommendations to management concerning improvement areas.

‘Big M’ and the Performance Culture

Managing Maintenance for Production Reliability

by James Davis, PE, CMRP

About 30 years ago, the Plant Engineer of an ITT Rayonier paper mill in north Florida called me into his office and announced that, as a reward for a job well done, I was being given the position of Plant Maintenance Engineer.  This was a bit confusing at first, as I was a mechanical/civil Project Engineer at the time, in a 38 year old facility that had never had a Maintenance Engineer.

Back to the Basics - Delivering a Maintenance Plan

by Malcolm Hide

So how do you go about setting up all of the maintenance requirements for several thousand discretely maintainable assets? This was the challenge facing us when we needed to set up the maintenance requirements package for a baggage handling system in a new airport terminal in a major international airport. From previous experience, and the airport requirements, we had a good idea of what needed to be done. The challenge was in the sheer size of the system-with a total asset base of over 28,000 discretely maintainable assets, we needed to find a more efficient way of doing things. As a result, we developed a three-step process (see Figure 1) that delivers a robust maintenance plan, based on a clearly defined strategy, which is easy to review and enables the implementation of changes when necessary. We have found that the principles hold well, regardless of the size of the system.

Back to the Basics - Developing and Delivering a Maintenance Plan

By Malcolm Hide

So how do you go about setting up all of the maintenance requirements for several thousand discretely maintainable assets? This was the challenge facing us when we needed to set up the maintenance requirements package for a baggage handling system in a new airport terminal in a major international airport. From previous experience, and the airport requirements, we had a good idea of what needed to be done.

Benchmarking a Better Understanding

Benchmarks Shed Light on Maintenance & Reliability Perceptions

by Klaus M. Blache, PhD

This interesting study compares data collected in 2008 to data collected in 1991 to chart the trends in reliability and maintenance over the last 17 years.

Benefits of the Planned Domain

By Winston P. Ledet
The Manufacturing Game

We have spent considerable time in the Manufacturing Game newsletter focusing on the benefits and execution of the precision domain - removing the defects at the source (Figure 1). Our philosophy has evolved based on working with clients and modeling reliability; most organizations would be advised to focus first on eliminating defects and then on making the defect removal process more efficient with a planning and scheduling process. However, there are significant benefits to the Planned Domain and this article focuses on the specific benefits that are generated through the Planned domain and the keys to a successful transition to the planned domain. Using our Dynamic Benchmarking model and data from a hypothetical chemical plant we modeled at DuPont we were able to calculate the benefits.

Book Review: Handbook to Achieve Operational Excellence

Authors: William Boothe and Steven Lindborg
Reviewed by: Ricky Smith

 

When I read the first page of Handbook to Achieve Operational Excellence by William Boothe and Steven Lindborg, it pulled me in because of the initial statements about enterprise-wide management and alignment. These are serious topics that are well laid out in this book. Most companies either do not understand these two topics or they do not want to be successful.

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