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Defining Asset Care Strategies

Defining Asset Care Strategies

The RELIABILITY Conference Learning Session - 22:19 
by Tabby Conrow, General Mills

It’s 1AM in the morning, and your phone rings. There is breakdown at the plant. When you hang up the phone, your head spins running through items like safety risks, production downtime, stocked parts. Now imagine all those worries – gone. We have to improve human safety, improve equipment efficiency, reduce maintenance cost and all while increasing system capacity.

The goal is to develop asset care strategies that balance our current capability and asset availability with the needs of the equipment. The scope is to look at our current organization capability, our PM systems, process rigor and craft skills and stabilize the relationship. The process to improve is a 4 part approach:

Asset spare parts list cleanup – it ensures inventory asset link, provides failure mode by work type and consumable BOM that is searchable in Maximo.
Identify the plants asset care gaps by running a CMMS Maximo query to identify if parts were reactive maintenance, corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance work orders. With this data we then research if the RM parts have a component strategy.
Modify job plan content by defining “time based versus inspection based” for components, pairing usage history with component manufacturer calculations and ensuring that all time based parts are planned to job plans.
Perform the PM balance – create Gantt chart of PMs for the system, eliminate unnecessary PMs and align PM start times with maintenance schedule.
The asset care approach has led to unmanaged spend improving by over 22% from the previous year. As more parts are correctly charged to the asset, we can clearly find the gaps. Since the launch of asset care 2 fiscal years ago, plants have saved over 2 million dollars in parts spend!

We implement asset care strategy at our plants to be a way of maintenance life. Planned maintenance will continue to improve and reactive maintenance will ultimately make it to zero occurrences.

Audit, Develop and Implement

by Paul Dufresne

Completing an Audit and Implementing Changes to Boost Lubrication Program Performance

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.

Access Business Group LLC Upgrades to IMMPOWER R6

Birmingham, AL,—Revere, Inc. today announced that Access Business Group LLC’s Michigan manufacturing facility recently upgraded to IMMPOWER R6, the latest version of its flagship enterprise asset management and computerized maintenance management software.

0-75 MPH: Fast-Tracking a Solid Foundation for the Journey to World Class

0-75 MPH: Fast-Tracking a Solid Foundation for the Journey to World Class

Salem and Beverly Water Supply Board embarked on a mission to set baseline tactics that would set the foundation to aid in reaching their world-class vision: “Be a world-class water utility driven by teamwork and operational excellence.”

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Trimble Acquires Nexala to Expand its Role in the Rail Transport Industry

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has acquired privately-held Nexala, a provider of enterprise solutions for the rail transport industry, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Computer Maintenance Management System

Your computer maintenance management system (CMMS) is your maintenance management database, and like any database, if the input is bad the output will also be bad. A well-utilized and well-managed CMMS is an invaluable tool that should be in close alignment with a work management system. What does a good CMMS look like?

By Mark Brunner

Worthington Industries’ Journey from Firefighting to First-Class Maintenance

Worthington Industries’ Journey from Firefighting to First-Class Maintenance

Worthington Industries, a global diversified metals manufacturer, recently finished a complete transformation of the maintenance department at its Columbus, Ohio, steel processing facility. In 2012, with maintenance accounting for the highest percentage of facility downtime at 7.2 percent and a growing open order backlog topping 280, the team decided it was time for change.

Continuous Improvement on a Budget

Continuous improvement is a broad term used frequently in today's business world. Most companies strive for continual improvements in their processes but many come up short when it comes to actually making sustainable gains. Outside consultants typically do a very good job of bringing the continuous improvement process into a facility and there are times when their services should be employed. The subject of this paper on the other hand attempts to expose the various steps involved, should a company choose to conduct such an event in house using their own personnel. Nearly every company in the world stands to benefit from a well focused continuous improvement event utilizing an in-house facilitator.

Boost Reliability, Save Money, Drive Business Results with Analytics

by Lindsay Clarke

“Analytics” – the word is everywhere you look. But it’s not just another buzzword of the moment. Business analytics provides a longer lever for corporate leaders at all levels – from end users to management to the C-suite – to improve business performance across the enterprise.

The Effects of Maintenance on Reliability

Publisher's Note: I will caution you that a) Bill Brinkley comes from the commercial Aviation industry where reliability is not optional and b) he pulls no punches when speaking to industrial maintenance professionals. I an interested in hearing what you can take away from this paper that was presented at IMC-2007. You can email me your comments or you can post them here.

In an airline environment, maintenance is king. An aircraft receives about 17 man-hours of maintenance for every flight hour. That may seem excessive - unless you are the one riding in that aircraft. So - the question is, do aircraft really break all that often and do they need that much maintenance? Are they that unreliable? The answer, of course, is no.

Aircraft are designed to be reliable, so why perform all that maintenance? Over ninety percent of the maintenance performed on an aircraft is preventive or servicing in nature. Preventive maintenance is done to maximize availability of the aircraft for operational service and minimize the number of failures occurring at inconvenient times or places.

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