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Getting “Smart” on the Railways and Roadways with Predictive Solutions

The modern transformation of the logistics outlook increasingly changes the world and sets new tasks in the development of information technologies for production management and infrastructure operation.

CMMS and EAM

How to Align Your Location and Asset Data to Provide Efficiencies

IMC-2016 Focused Forum - 40:55
by Courtney Blalock, EDI and John Acton, Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department

We all have and use Enterprise Asset Management systems. They are an essential tool in how we maintain our Assets, schedule and plan work for those assets and track our effectiveness and efficiencies in the work place. Are we getting out of them all that we can? When we initially setup our EAM systems did we fully understand the implications of the decisions we made when we setup the Location and Asset hierarchies? Have we gone back to adjust them? Have we gone through the effort of examining ALL of our Location and System hierarchies and how they interact with each other? Many organizations find themselves performing daily maintenance and adjustments on their own EAM systems that are supposed to be helping them. This is often from choices made long ago with limited understanding of capabilities and best practices. Processes have often been put in place that require a significant amount of work to maintain and yet they still don’t provide the promises expected when the system was first implemented. We will discuss best practices around Location hierarchies; how they should be organized, how systems should be utilized and how they interact with Assets. We will further discuss how changes to Location hierarchies can affect you and how to minimize the impact to you. We will discuss the roll of Assets and their structure and how they relate to the Location hierarchy. Finally, we will discuss best practices that can be implemented by users to get them on the path to realizing the efficiencies their EAM system can bring to them.

Level 5 Leadership - What Is It and How Do I Achieve It?

By Winston P. Ledet

Leadership is a subject that seems to be undergoing a dramatic change in recent times. The transformation seems to be from the "great man" point of view to the "great team" point of view. The reason for this shift may be that the level of complexity in today's world is much higher and therefore requires a more complex method of leadership.

Change Management for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals

When we think about creating a reliability focused organization we tend to initially think about what needs to be changed. This process invariably leads one to determine that there are components of the current process that do not exist and hence have to be created, or if they do exist they may not be functioning to the level we would desire. For example in order to create a reliability focused organization a work planning and execution component would be required.

Work Execution Management

Why Systems Fail After Going Live

by John Reeve

The short reason is because complex systems can have more requirements which, in turn, increase the number of failure points. And each requirement can have multiple prerequisites. An asset management system has three main areas needing ongoing attention: software/data, process/procedure and roles/responsibility. Advanced processes have the most prerequisites. Weakness in any one area or supporting variable can cause system failure.

CMMS and EAM

Championing SAP Plant Maintenance at Your Organization

By Rajen Patel

Do you feel that in your organization SAP Plant maintenance is not being used at its full potential? Do you think you can integrate maintenance activities with other departments? SAP plant maintenance module can't work on its own. It needs to be integrated with other modules in order to get maximum benefits.

Leadership for Reliability

Reaching For The Top

Creating a New Partner with Reliability Centered Operations

by Paul R. Casto, CMRP

To optimize both maintenance risk and cost, the interrelationships between reliability, maintenance and operations must be considered and leveraged to capitalize on the strengths of each. Reliability Centered Operations (RCO) is an approach that optimizes these relationships through the application of a maintenance strategy built from failure analysis that will yield more expansive and cost-effective risk reduction tasks.

leadership for reliability

Prometheus Group Expands Industrial Maintenance Software Suite with Acquisition of MobilOps from Turner Industries Group

Prometheus Group is excited to announce its acquisition of MobilOps, the integrated plant management and field operations software owned and backed by Turner Industries.

Asset Management

Improving the Asset Management Program at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex

The Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) is an Air Force Test Center (AFTC) organization and an important national resource. The AEDC operates more than 55 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, environmental chambers, ballistic ranges, sled tracks, centrifuges, and other specialized units at multiple operating locations. Due to the age, uniqueness of the test systems, and the non-production mode of operation; sustaining these national assets is a challenge.