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The New Era of Predictive Maintenance: Affordable and Accessible

Modern Predictive Maintenance (PdM) has come a long way in recent years, with ease of use and installation both having increased significantly, while cost has similarly decreased. Conventional PdM was an expensive and time consuming technology and, because of this, it was reserved for only the most critical facilities. The problem with this is that less costly equipment, though seemingly peripheral, can be just as essential to continuing operations, and it is instead relegated to a preventive maintenance (PM) schedule.

Work Execution Management

Panasonic Launches New PanaCIM Maintenance for Asset Management

Panasonic Factory Solutions Company of America has launched a new PanaCIM® Maintenance solution to control the full life cycle of any manufacturing asset. PanaCIM Maintenance brings innovative, value-added elements to help manufacturers streamline processes, reduce costs, increase uptime, and improve efficiencies.

Completing an Audit and Implementing Changes to Boost Lubrication Program Performance

by Paul Dufresne, CLS, CMRP

In 2009, Trico Services was contracted to complete an equipment lubrication audit of a large mill in the southeast that produces liner and corrugated material for containers. This audit was for roughly 2500 pieces of rotating equipment. Upon completion of the audit, Trico was to take the lubrication recommendations and input this data into the MAINTelligence software platform that the facility uses using to manage their plant lubrication programs.

CMMS and EAM

Maintenance Software for Industrial Plants, Utilities, Facilities—FastMaint CMMS 5.2 Released

SMGlobal has released FastMaint CMMS v. 5.2, a software application that makes it easy to manage plant maintenance, utility maintenance (power, water, sewer & gas), facility and building maintenance, resort and restaurant maintenance, and fleet maintenance.

Work Execution Management

Project Management: The Forgotten Tool Kit

Have the project management skills of the DoD become too lax? Within the world of asset management, construction and alterations are also part of the budget. As asset management professionals , are we paying attention?

CMMS and EAM

Long Beach Transit Case Study

ABOUT LONG BEACH TRANSIT

Each year, more than 29 million people in southern California travel on buses operated by Long Beach Transit. The transit company provides fixed and flexible bus services in Long Beach, Lakewood and Signal Hill, as well as portions of Artesia, Bellflower, Carson, Cerritos, Compton, Hawaiian Gardens, Norwalk, Paramount and Seal Beach.

Proposed B-1 program aims to speed maintenance, increase availability

by Howdy Stout -72nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.,—A team of high ranking Air Force officials visited Tinker this week in an effort to determine whether to change the way maintenance is performed on the B-1B strategic bomber.

Enabling the Autonomous Plant with Artificial Intelligence

The industrial plant of the future is closer than you think. As digitized assets, infrastructure, and processes become standard operating requirements aimed at improving safety, efficiency, and reliability, they've paved the way for artificial intelligence to enable a new breed of intelligent, semi-autonomous or autonomous industrial plants.

Asset Condition Management

Project Maintenance Management Plan (PMMP)

IMC-2017 Learning Session 41:11
by James Sadler, HQ, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Civil Works oversees and administers an asset portfolio with more than $250 billion in capital investments and over 1,500 operating projects located in all 50 states, as well as several international river basins. The portfolio continues to deliver daily benefits to almost every U.S. household that range from clean hydro-electric power and low-emission transport to recreational opportunities and flood mitigation. Reliable performance of the nation’s investment in infrastructure is essential to the asset portfolio’s ability to deliver safe and dependable service. The cornerstone of reliability is a maintenance management strategy developed to meet the organizational performance objectives.

The Project Management Maintenance Plan (PMMP) is an integral part of the USACE Maintenance Management Improvement Plan (MMIP). The PMMP identifies assets at each civil works project, establishes maintenance activities for those assets, then determines what maintenance activities are required as either a cost of ownership, to minimally operate the asset, or fully maintain the asset in compliance with suggested manufacturer’s schedules or established practices. The costs of the maintenance activities are estimated within the above categories to optimize strategic execution of limited Federal budgets. The PMMP:

is a site specific written maintenance management plan that completely summarizes the project’s maintenance needs.
compiles the annual cost of maintenance for each asset by frequency, and allows maintenance managers to regularly update assets to gauge required maintenance.
also identifies the desired relationship between maintenance investments and asset performance and totals the predicted investment need based on the project’s portfolio.
provides managers with a means to document and communicate maintenance decisions under circumstances of less than full funding.