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PM Optimisation Maintenance Analysis of the Future - Part 1

The author, Mr Steve Turner, is a professional engineer who has been extensively trained in RCM1 methods and has deployed them over a 20 year period in various roles as an airworthiness engineer, a maintenance manager, as part of a design team and as a consultant. Over the past five years, Mr Turner has developed a process of PM Optimisation known as PMO2000. This method is currently in use at 12 major industrial sites in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.

Asset Management

Why Your Preventive Maintenance Program Isn’t Working

Ricky Smith, CMRP

Does it annoy you that in spite of regularly performing Preventive Maintenance (PM) on your equipment it continues to breakdown? Some may call this insanity-continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. If you sat down and graphed out your company's PM labor hours versus emergency labor hours what would you find?

Leadership for Reliability

BorgWarner Increases Overall Equipment Effectiveness with Leading2Lean Cloud-based Lean Mfg

Within a short time period after implementing Leading2Lean, the plant began to resolve inefficiencies and frustrations with a system that allowed them to better identify production weaknesses.

There’s More to Training than Skills Development

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

Ken Bass, CMRP, Director, Content and Quality, Management Resources Group

Most organizations have recognized for many years that when we change the way any job is done, we most likely change the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed at that job. For minor changes in the work, some on the job training is sufficient. When the changes involve dramatic differences in the knowledge and skills base, formal training is required. But one question remains. That is, is “how to” training enough since it is very specific to the knowledge and skills for a discrete set of tasks?

Contractor Management Controls

by Bob L. Harrell, Jr.

There's a great story about a town with a clock tower that rang every day at exactly noon. The man in charge of the tower called City Hall each morning to confirm the exact time before adjusting the clock. Everyone in the town knew for certain when the tower clock rang; it was straight-up 12:00 noon. One day, after many years on the job, the bell tower man happened to ask the city hall clerk how he always knew the exact time. That's easy, the city hall clerk replied, I rely on the clock tower.

CMMS and EAM

eMaint Enterprises Marks 25th Anniversary as a Leading Provider of CMMS

Reaching a 25th anniversary is a milestone in marriage and business. In on-demand CMMS, eMaint Enterprises celebrates the marriage of customer service and technology, marking their 25th anniversary providing maintenance management software solutions worldwide.

Do Not Be Misled by O.E.E.

By Robert M. Williamson, president of Strategic Work Systems

Overall equipment effectiveness (O.E.E.) has been used as one of the more important "maintenance metrics" since Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) came to the U.S. in the late 1980s. O.E.E. is the primary measure used in TPM to identify and quantify the major equipment-related losses and a metric for rating "equipment effectiveness." O.E.E. has become widely used in many plants with or without the elements of TPM in place since the early years of TPM to quantify equipment effectiveness losses. This usage has also caused some confusion and has led to many misuses of the O.E.E. percentage calculation.

Lean Maintenance Workshop Offered to Improve Manufacturing Efficiencies and Reduce Waste

Life Cycle Engineering, Inc. (LCE) today announced that it will offer a Lean Maintenance workshop through its education entity, the Life Cycle Institute. The Life Cycle Institute and industry expert Joel Levitt created the Lean Maintenance workshop in response to a rising demand for lean principles to be incorporated into maintenance practices of manufacturing entities.

Leadership for Reliability

Reshaping Sugar

The Transformation of U.S. Sugar

by Darrin Wikoff, CMRP

A 12% increase in production capacity over three years with virtually no increase in operating costs makes United States Sugar Corporation the leading producer of retail and industrial bulk sugar in the United States.