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Are You Proactive? A Daily Planner for Effective Maintenance Management

By Ricky Smith

In the maintenance and reliability industry, the definition for proactive is:

To act before the cost of doing so increases
To act before the necessity of the situation demands it.

“A great maintenance manager sees the relationship of poor performance and the lack of good maintenance routines.” “Poor performance always leads to the lack of maintenance routines or poor execution of existing routines.” - Rick Mullen, Global Reliability Leader, Anheuser-Busch InBev

Solomon Associates Helps Industrial Facilities Drive Reliability and Maintenance Performance

Dallas, TX - Solomon Associates, the leading performance improvement company for the global energy industry, today announced the launch of its 2011 International Study of Plant Reliability and Maintenance Effectiveness (RAM Study) for refineries, chemical plants, and other industrial facilities. The study provides comparative analysis and critical insights designed to help plants identify opportunities for improving reliability and reducing maintenance costs.

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.

CMMS and EAM

Saasmaint.com Delivers Saasmaint Essentials on the Force.com Platform

Saasmaint.com today announced the availability of Saasmaint Essentials on Force.com, salesforce.com’scloud computing platform, delivering maintenance management capabilities in the cloud to customers. Saasmaint Essentials is a Force.com native application, benefiting from the reliability, scalability and performance of salesforce.com’strusted enterprise cloud computing platform.

Macro-Managing Your MRO Inventory

by Doug Wallace

The mission of the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) warehouse is to have the right parts at the right place at the right time. Too often, that objective is achieved by simply stuffing the storeroom to the gills. Some organizations do a better job of trying to determine realistic stocking plans based on criticality, estimated requirements, supplier lead times and other variables, but then fail to review them periodically to ensure the assumptions used in developing the stocking plans are still valid.

Leadership for Reliability

Maintenance Is Really Not the Problem

In late May, Uptime Publisher Terrence O’Hanlon posted on LinkedIn that attendance at maintenance conferences has dropped significantly. Responses to his post offered plausible reasons, including budget constraints, lack of or recurring content, and total saturation. While these are no doubt contributors, there may be one more growing reason for this decline: more and more organizations are finally recognizing that maintenance is not the source of their competitive or financial problems. This article provides proof for why this reason may be on point.

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.

Asset Management

(IACET) Has Awarded Reaccreditation Status to Management Resources Group, Inc.

SANDY HOOK, CT. - The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded reaccreditation status to Management Resources Group, Inc. (MRG). IACET Authorized Providers are the only organizations approved to offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The accreditation period extends for five years, and includes all programs offered or created during that time.

CMMS and EAM

Transtelco Selects SaaSMaint to Facilitate Management and Maintenance of Telecommunications Assets

SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM enables Transtelco to prevent service outages and boost customer satisfaction. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB)-SaaSMaint.com today announced that Telecommunications provider Transtelco has deployed SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM to track and document nearly 1000 infrastructure, vehicle and specialized equipment assets distributed among remote sites along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Asset Condition Management

Two-Tiered Predictive Maintenance Programs for Multiple Plant Organizations

By Brent Miley, Predictive Maintenance Team Leader, Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) of Greater Cincinnati Wastewater Treatment (WWT) Division; Jack R. Nicholas, Jr., P.E., CMRP, Self Employed, Sole Proprietor; John Shinn, Jr., P.E., Maintenance Manager, MSD of Greater Cincinnati, WWT Division

The Wastewater Treatment Division of the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati recently established a two-tiered predictive maintenance (PdM) program. The two-tiered PdM program has both centralized and decentralized components to serve its seven (7) widely separated plants.