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Articles: MRO - Spares Management

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Reliability vs The Capricious MRO Storeroom

By George Krauter

You can’t deliver optimum reliability when your support is unreliable … the capricious MRO storeroom.

Repairable Spares: The Complete Program

By Daniel DeWald, CPIM

The establishment of a repairable spares program is essential to complete a solid MRO (maintenance parts, repair, and operating supplies) management program. Repairing parts before the point of failure is a strategy that reduces maintenance costs, reduces purchasing dollars in buying new equipment, and reduces the need for an increased capital budgeting process.

Squirrel Stores - How Much do Squirrel Stores Cost

By Phill Slater

The following example demonstrates the inventory effect of squirrel stores.

 

Squirrel Stores and Why You Would Be Nuts to Keep Them

by Phillip Slater

Breaking the locks was the only option. It was 2:00am and Line 1 had stopped completely.

Taming Your MRO Spend While Unlocking the Hidden Savings in Your MRO Spares Inventory

By Will Templeton and Niels Martin

Organizations spend over $500 billion annually on spare parts and supplies to support maintenance, repair and operations (MRO). So why do MRO and other "indirect materials" remain the ugly stepchildren when it comes to inventory and cost reduction initiatives? In short, it is because these initiatives can be both complex and risky. How do you keep enough material on the shelf to maintain equipment availability, uptime and service management while not breaking the bank? Read on...

The Importance of Organizing MRO Inventory & Purchasing

By Terry Wireman, CPMM, CMRP

MRO inventory and purchasing organizations are the single biggest maintenance support functions that contribute to low maintenance productivity. MRO inventory and purchasing, in this article, stands for maintenance, repair, and overhaul inventory and purchasing. Many maintenance labor delays are related to issues concerning materials and spare parts. Because the purchasing function typically procures the materials for the MRO storerooms, it also has a big impact on maintenance productivity.

The Maintenance Storeroom: Keys to Efficient Maintenance Operation

By Jeff Zeiler

Besides being the central hub for maintenance, the storeroom also provides functions that are absolutely critical to the maintenance operation. These functions are so important that when the storeroom is operating in a best practices mode, the rest of the maintenance operation can excel. In other words, the storeroom is the enabler.

The Missing Link in Reliability

Many Equipment Failures Could Be Linked To Materials Management

by Art Posey and Phillip Slater

Oh no, not again!  Is this the perennial cry of the maintenance and reliability professional?  We all know this situation: a recent failure was repaired and has now failed again shortly after.

What’s the Real Cost of Spare Parts Inventory?

It's always disappointing, but no longer surprising, to find people who actually believe that once you pay for material and put it on the shelf in the storeroom, it no longer costs anything to keep it there. The fact is, there are significant costs associated with holding spare parts on the books.

Why Can’t We Do It Ourselves?

Have you been asked this question by management?

George Krauter and James Rogers

To release value from our MRO operations, do we need to outsource our MRO storeroom to a 3PMRO provider? Why can't we obtain the lower price, the asset recovery dollars and the critical storeroom reliability ourselves?

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