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CTRL Releases Version 2.0 With Wireless Communication to Online Ultrasound Trending-Analysis System

CTRL Systems, Inc. is releasing SoundCTRL 2.0, an ultrasound data capture software device. Using a wireless Internet connection, SoundCTRL automatically uploads the ultrasound data to InCTRL for monitoring, reporting and diagnosing bearings, gears, pumps and valves.

Asset Management

Risk Based Approach for Asset Integrity and Reliability

In a first of its kind initiative in India, an asset performance management (APM) was implemented focusing asset integrity management for the Oil & Gas major covering risk-based inspection (RBI) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) practices to facilitate the strategies for static and rotary assets.

Asset Condition Management

Aluminum Leader Gains Equipment Improvements, Cost Savings with Lubrication Excellence Program

Novelis is a leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum. Opened in 1959, the Terre Haute, Indiana, facility is a world-class light gauge aluminum rolling plant and a recognized leader in the production of semirigid foil container stock and wide industrial fin stock.

Beyond Vending…. More than Tracking Inventory and Purchasing Parts

Die castings are among the highest volume, mass-produced items manufactured by the metalworking industry. J. L. French, headquartered in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is a global supplier of quality aluminum die castings specializing in powertrain and automotive components having three manufacturing plants in the United States and one in Spain. It's not uncommon for large manufacturers such as J. L. French to spend millions of dollars every year on the MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) side of manufacturing.

Best Facilities Management Practices Using Maximo

MaximoWorld 2017 Learning Session - 36:32
by Robert Fetter, Skookum Contract Services

Skookum Contract Services has made significant advancements in the delivery of public works services in the federal sector using Maximo and mobile handheld devices. Skookum has developed a state-of–the art work management system that includes leading edge technologies, ISO-9001 certified processes, and unmatched service levels. Highlights include automated scheduling of preventive maintenance and repair work that allows for completion of over 24,000 Service Calls, 10,000 Preventive Maintenance Work Orders, 70,000 filter changes and maintenance of over 13,000 Pieces of Mechanical Equipment each year with an on-time completion rate of over 99%. The system also employs mobile devices for craftsman and quality control personnel to virtually eliminate paperwork and put mainframe power in the workers’ hands, including maintenance histories, hazard avoidance (safety!), and the capability for craftsman to take immediate action on problems of any size real time. In addition, the Skookum maintenance program includes a strong asset management capability that utilizes barcoding and e-forms to gather condition-based maintenance data on major electrical/mechanical equipment as well as building-wide performance PMs to ensure all system components and controls are working together to maximize reliability and energy efficiency. Finally, Skookum utilizes ISO-9001 certified processes and a unique all-encompassing Maximo-based work management scheme to manage all types of work from inception to completion, including Preventive Maintenance, Service Orders, and Larger Repair Projects. The results Skookum has achieved through this top 5% Maximo business application include significant costs savings, reduced “reactive” service calls and increased planned/predictive work over the past three years. The program has also eased the burden of facility work on building managers and occupants and serves as a major success story on the use of Maximo and handheld devices to vastly improve facilities management practices in the federal service sector.

Work Execution Management

FacilityONE Technologies Unveils UNITY Enhancements for Improved Facility Management

FacilityONE Technologies, LLC, which provides a cloud-based Facility Information Solution (FIS) that enhances a building's functional and economic lifespan and boosts employee productivity, announced today significant enhancements to its UNITY™ interface, including the addition of true offline create, edit and view functionality.

Leadership for Reliability

What is Total Productive Maintenance?

By Jordy Byrd

You're only strong as your weakest link. While trite, the phrase embodies what manufacturing plants and processing facilities have worked to overcome for years: How do you plan for; and prevent broken equipment in your lean machine?

CMMS and EAM

MPulse CMMS Launches Now in India by InApp Information Technologies

NewswireToday - Bangalore, Karnataka, India, - InApp, a leading software services company in the Technopark, Trivandrum, jointly with the US-based MPulse Maintenance Software, is bringing MPulse CMMS, the world’s leading Computerised Maintenance Management System, to the Asia-Pacific region.

Training - The Backbone of Cultural Change

During the current time globalization and the forces of competition are causing many of the worlds industries to change frequently in order to either remain in the game, or to try to gain advantage in some manner. Organizational structures are becoming transient things used as a tool to facilitate change. For example people often are required to do project work for short periods in order to maintain the continuous improvement focus that an organization may wish to achieve.

As a result here are many and regular changes occurring within the fields of maintenance as well. A CMMS system may be implemented, maintenance strategy review undertaken, business processes reviewed or even the regular addition of root cause analysis projects. TPM and lean maintenance programs have also now entered the landscape as part of the changes open to maintenance departments.

All of these forces can cause the organizational culture to shift somewhat. The organisation of the early twenty first century finds itself in the situation where it is always breaking paradigms and accepting new ones only to break them again as their advancement continues.
However much if the continual change within some organizations is due to the lack of success of previous programs. The Program of the Month phenomena. I feel that there is somewhat of a misunderstanding of this issue. Mindsets such as these are often attributed to the fact that management are not fully behind the concept, or a coping mechanism for a workforce that has reached a saturation point in terms of the continual changes that they need to endure.