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Measuring Maintenance Performance - The Puzzle

Don't expect good results from bad practices
Guess: What is the value of backlog?

By Tarek Atout

The maintenance manager in a manufacturing organization asked two different maintenance supervisors to report on the work orders backlog up to the current date. The two supervisors reported two different values for the backlog, while both seemed to use the same data sources to produce the report.

CMMS and EAM

Process Industries in Asia, Including India, Are Ready to Invest in Enterprise Solutions

ARC’s Research Reveals that Process Industries in Asia, Including India, Are Ready to Invest in Enterprise Solutions

By Jayanth Bhattacharjee and SR Venkatapathy, ARC Advisory Group

Agility and responsiveness to market demands in a competitive environment have made it imperative for process industry manufacturers to ensure quality deliverance, better asset management, lower operational costs, and operational efficiency. These have led to adoption of process enterprise solutions, such as Collaborative Production Management (CPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and Transportation Management Systems (TMS).

Work Execution Management

Work Execution Management - Refining Processes

In this webinar, Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine and Kahn Ellis, COO, Vesta Partners discuss the importance of Work Execution Management in your asset reliability program.

Leadership for Reliability

Q&A with an Industry Leader

Recently, Uptime caught up with Nick Jize, Facility Operations Maintenance Manager at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California. NIF is home to the world’s largest and highest energy laser, as well as 192 of the most powerful lasers in the world. Nick has more than 20 years experience in RCM and predictive maintenance leadership.

Work Execution Management

Defect Elimination From a CMMS Perspective

Defect elimination may be the most significant initiative within a maintenance reliability program. It may also provide the largest return on investment in terms of asset reliability and plant uptime. From a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) perspective, defect elimination can be used to focus on recurring failures and significant events, and also to address potential failures.

Understanding and Implementing Predictive Maintenance Excellence

By Kenneth D. Peoples Lubrication Champion / Maintenance Manager IDS-Boeing Wichita Wichita, Kansas Shared Services Group /Site Services

Implementing a PdM program can be tough in today's world of corporate business thinking. In order to pursue an effective program you will need to have a basic plan with real world goals and objectives. This overview will show the very basics of implementing a program strategy that will lead to success. The examples will be real and the results will be real as well. Understanding where to start and where to focus in the future is critical. This paper and presentation will give some insight to starting up and sustaining an effective program.

Asset Management

Developing an Asset Management Strategy

Most large plants have $100's of millions in investments. They were all built with an objective to provide earnings superior to risk-free government bonds. While there are many factors which influence profitability, maximizing output potential is often the single greatest opportunity, especially for low-margin, commodity-type businesses. A typical measure of success of asset deployment is Return on Assets (ROA).

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Measuring Maintenance Performance - The Puzzle

How to Baseline Craft Productivity & Increase Workforce Capacity

So What?

U.S. Navy Analysis of Submarine Maintenance Data - Part 2