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Is Your Maintenance Lean or Lean?

by James Reyes-Picknell

Manufacturers, miners, processing plants and even offices are going “lean” these days. In the accounting world, lean has an attractive sound: lean = cheap. Low cost to an accountant means less spending on anything you must pay for. Labor, materials and anything associated with them are costs and, therefore, subject to cost cutting, budget cutting and targeting within lean initiatives. But cutting these costs often leads to poor performance. If this has happened to your company, then you have moved beyond lean, you’ve become sick.

Leadership for Reliability

Leadership in Reliability Central Arizona Project

Most people are aware that the State of Arizona has grown considerably over the past few decades. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the state’s population grew 40 percent from 1990 to 2000, second only to Nevada. Phoenix, the state’s largest city, stands today as the nation’s sixth largest city and is poised to be fifth soon. Interestingly, the five cities besting Phoenix in population all reside on great bodies of water along the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast and Great Lakes, each with a river, port and shipping fleet. Contrast that to the metropolitan area of Phoenix with 4.4 million people living in a desert community with an annual average rainfall of less than eight inches. Ever wonder how that is even possible?

Asset Management

Work Safety

The safety of workers should be part of the mission of your organization. If it isn’t, do something about it!

The fact is, shop safety in the U.S. and Europe has dramatically improved over the past few decades. Many unsafe acts accepted in the past are forbidden today. The idea of working without fall protection or lockout-tagout (LOTO) procedures is widely condemned by workers, management and supervision. Still, too many people get grievously hurt or even killed at work.

The Life Cycle Institute Announces 2012 Class Schedule

Charleston, SC - The Life Cycle Institute, the learning source for Reliability Excellence^TM, has announced its 2012 class schedule. The Institute was created by Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) to be a lifelong learning resource for people engaged in optimizing asset reliability and performance. Learn more.

Leadership for Reliability

Hastings Joins GreenWood, Inc. as Corporate Director of Construction Operations

GreenWood, Inc., an integrated operations, maintenance and construction solutions provider, announces the addition of Malcolm “Bo” Hastings as Corporate Director of Construction Operations.

Asset Management

Cincinnati MSDGC AM Performance System Delivers Results thru Efficiency, Reliability and Compliance

IMC-2017 Focused Forum - 46:17
by John Shinn and Eric Stevens, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati

This case study by the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati’s Wastewater Treatment Division (MSDGC) shows how MSDGC achieved significant Uptime Magazine 2013 and 2014 award winning results through implementing a performance system to manage physical assets efficiently within the operations and maintenance phase of the asset lifecycle. MSDGC’s asset performance system is based on an industry best practice asset management framework called the Uptime elements, shown in the figure below. The Uptime Elements framework provides a reference for best practice assessment, improvement planning and auditing. MSDGC continuously uses the Uptime framework to focus a dynamic leadership culture on improving and sustaining the business systems used to manage resources, asset reliability and lifecycle cost.

The framework includes asset management best-practices and systems, including condition based maintenance, PM Optimization (PMO), risk-based reliability centered maintenance, and advanced planning and scheduling. Continuous improvement of the management system is supported by a rolling 5-year master planning process that documents ongoing and future activities and budgets. Key performance indicators and sub-measures of performance link day to day operations to strategic objectives identified within the framework, shown in the figure below.

EAM & Reliability Strategy Seminar & Workshop – 10/7/14 in Charleston, SC & 10/9/14 in N

GenesisSolutions is hosting two complimentary seminars on Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) & Reliability Strategy on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 in Charleston, South Carolina and on Thursday, October 9, 2014 in New York City.

Continuous Improvement with PM Optimization: Lessons Learned from Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant

Feeding back the results of PM activities after Reliability Improvement program implementation is necessary to maintain a PM program in optimal condition. It is through the Living Program that PM tasks are continually updated to maintain the best balance between the cost of performing tasks and their effectiveness in preventing or reducing failures that impact equipment reliability and system availability.

reliability engineering for maintenance

Managing the Risk of the Schedule Using Monte Carlo Simulations

Consider this scenario: You are finalizing the planning of your company’s next major maintenance outage or capital project and are concerned the timeline is too tight and your team is small. You communicate this to management and...

CMMS and EAM

Training Intelligence LLC delivers SAP Training on Plant Maintenance for Major Defense Contractor

Training Intelligence LLC contracted with a major defense manufacturer to deliver SAP training on Plant Maintenance to the IT department. Future events are planned, including ABAP training, Materials Management, Supply Chain, Logistics Execution, and SAP Idoc.