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Work Execution Management

Work Order Priority Checklist

Work order priorities are commonly misused. In order have a fighting chance, compare your priority criteria to the following elements:

1. Simple and concise
2. Documents expected timeframe to completion
3. Considers all consequences:quality, cost, safety,throughput & environmental
4. Takes likelihood into account
5. Formerly documented
6. Clearly communicated
7. Talked about often (part of our common language)

If your criteria does not match up to

Asset Condition Management

EXP4000 Payback Period Tool

Baker SKF's EXP4000 includes the MotorMaster+ database of 20,000 electric motors and a Payback Period calculator. The EXP4000 provides a good estimate of the efficiency of an electric motor

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Criticality

At a recent conference, I was asked for the "Cut Off" value for critical machines. Not having a good idea of the intent of the question, I had to ask for clarification and the response was What The question got me thinking about Criticality Assessments and how unique they are to each process and facility. If you do an honest assessment of your equipment and you see a high number of critical machines, defined as failures of assets that will cause harm to your people, harm to the environment, or harm to quality and / or throughput, and you have a very high percentage of these as critical, you might want to evaluate if you can sustain a meaningful maintenance strategy. Simply put, critical assets need attention and if you do not have the resources to attend to this equipment, it might be time to build some redundancy around the critical machines.

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Definition: Availability - Reliability Basis

As used in reliability calculations, the probability than an item or system is operating satisfactorily, at any point in time, when used under stated conditions.

Expressed by the formula Availability = MTBF (MTBF + MTTR). Synonymous with inherent availability

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Work Execution Management

Active Communication of the Work Schedule

Many people think that the printing of the work schedule and displaying it in the work area is an effective communication method (this is not entirely true). It is better to put away the scotch

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Work Execution Management

What’s your dominant strategy?

For many organizations, it is run-to-failure (RTF) although they don't recognize it as such.  While some groups have no real proactive maintenance practices, others have invested in and continue

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Asset Condition Management

Unstable Phase Readings When Balancing

When balancing a machine, phase readings should remain relatively stable during the test. Variations of a few degrees are normal, but large jumps or readings that seem to meander around the full

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Asset Condition Management

Selecting the Right Filter Elements for Filter Carts

Before choosing the appropriate filter element for a filter cart, you must determine the target cleanliness for your applications. In general, you should select a filter element pore size

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Leadership for Reliability

Maintenance Reliability Mission Statements

An effective mission statement can go a long way toward generating buy in for your efforts if it is short, direct and to the point.

Try to write your mission statement in under 8 words (Management

Work Execution Management

Fleet Maintenance Scheduling Tips

The first items scheduled are the units still in bays. Use substantial effort to solve whatever problem is keeping them from being finished. You can put a unit back on the street unfinished if ...

Work Execution Management

Definition: Unplanned Maintenance

Maintenance performed without planning which could be related to a breakdown, repair, or corrective work. Unplanned maintenance may be scheduled during the normal work cycle.

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Work Execution Management

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: Fill-in work

Fill-in work is work that is very simple, can be started, stopped, and re-started with little loss in effectiveness, doesn't involve other crafts and has minimal or no impact to the ...

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