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The Plant Maintenance Program

It's a team effort

by Paul Tomlingson

What is the plant maintenance program? The plant maintenance program depicts the interaction of the total plant population as they request or identify work; classify it to determine the best reaction; plan, schedule, assign, control and measure the resulting work; and assess overall accomplishments against goals, such as performance standards and budgets.

Making Your Facility’s Plumbing More Reliable

When it comes to the reliability of the plumbing in your facility, there are several things you can do to prevent failures and downtime. Certain parts of the system will always be more prone to breakdowns than others and upgrades, while sometimes costly, actually help to save money by promoting efficient operations. With a targeted maintenance plan and scheduled upgrades, you can keep your plumbing system running smoothly.

Asset Management

The Onesteel Eight Critical Elements of Asset Management

by Mark Brunner, Reliability and Systems Superintendant-Wire, OneSteel Rod Bar and Wire, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

OneSteel is a fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of steel and finished steel products, self-sufficient in both iron ore and scrap metal, with revenues in excess of $6 billion Australian dollars. They have major manufacturing facilities across Australia as well facilities in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific and the USA.

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CMMS and EAM

Maximo to the Max - Following One Organization’s Upgrade Experience

by Shelley Whitener, CMRP; Ed Williams, CMRP; Sabine Boruff and Tom Arcuri

Sandia National Labs has been using Maximo almost since its inception. Over the years we have utilized the Maximo tools that conformed nicely to our maintenance processes.

Leadership for Reliability

‘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.

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Maintenance and Stores – A Partnership?

In my many years of experience in working with hundreds of industrial operations, the storeroom or spare parts is one of the most frequently criticized functions, and the self-assessments at these operations suggest the criticism is justified — at least in the eyes of the maintenance department.

Work Execution Management

Striving for Operational Excellence in Work Execution Management

Uptime Award in Work Execution Management:

LOOP was honored to receive the 2014 Uptime Award for Best Work Execution Management, which was presented at the International Maintenance Conference on December 12, 2014 in Daytona, Florida. Our reliability group worked in concert with maintenance and operations to create a proactive culture by setting and achieving asset and work management goals. Thanks to our owner representatives from Marathon, Shell and Valero, executives, the management team and administrative support; this was truly received as a company-wide award for LOOP recognizing the accomplishments of the entire organization.

Uptime Awards Stories 2013

Uptime Magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high-quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.

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Dragan Trivanovic with Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership accepts the Uptime Award for Best Operator Driven Reliability Program

More Than Math - Key Performance Indicators Are Not Just Mathematical Equations

by Tarek Atout

When I decided to write about KPI's, I wanted to see this famous terminology "Key Performance Indicators" from a different prospective. This article will not focus on what KPI's need to be measured in a maintenance organization nor what best practices values are expected, but will discuss how to motivate the principle itself and how to manage the process of developing, measuring, analyzing results and correcting the maintenance process path to achieve the required targets.

Motor Performance Management

The art of saving money by extending motor life and optimizing motor performance

Derek Norfield

Electric motors are the prime movers in the industrial environment. Although motors are efficient and reliable, they do eventually fail - and those failures often disrupt production, causing lost revenue that can be many times the cost of the motor. Managing motors saves both direct costs and the disruption of lost production.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Integrating Your Electrical Equipment into an Existing Reliability Program

Programs, techniques, methods and technologies that are used to integrate electrical equipment into a reliability program will be shared during this presentation, as well as to review and demonstrate success stories, culture change and failures.

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Leveraging AI to Improve Work Scheduling

Asset-intensive enterprises, such as utilities, often face large backlogs of maintenance work orders, which include routine preventive maintenance (PM) tasks and corrective maintenance (CM) actions to address known equipment issues.