Stuck in a cycle of unplanned repairs and backlogged plans? Discover how the PDCA cycle can help you shift from reactive firefighting to proactive, efficient maintenance execution. Learn how to prioritize effectively, analyze performance, and continuously improve your maintenance program.
Southern Gardens has embarked on a journey in pursuit of achieving excellence in reliability. The key is perseverance because the road is often bumpy. Continuous improvement moves you down the continuum, so when you think you are at the end, you realize there is always room for improvement.
Developing a Classic Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) strategy is time consuming and diverts personnel from their primary function; often resulting in a "hard sell" with both production and management personnel. Judicious application of Classic RCM analysis based on objective evidence of need eases the initial approval process while building the foundation for continued RCM efforts through demonstrated Return On Investment (ROI).
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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.
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Asset Management: An Explanation
What is asset management?
There are varied points of view, no doubt. So let's get a generally acceptable perspective from two reliable sources:
Westar Energy began changing its approach to power plant maintenance more than a dozen years ago. The transition from a traditional utility culture to a modern, reliability- focused organization is still a work in progress. Today though, the company makes use of predictive maintenance technologies, data and reliability tools to drive strategic improvement.
The manufacturing industry continues to be a pillar of the U.S. economy, underpinning its essential role in ensuring national security. It contributed to 11.9 percent of total U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, and when compared to other industries, manufacturing provides the largest multiplier effect — every $1 spent in manufacturing generates $1.48 in additional economic activity.1 Manufacturing also provides direct employment to nearly 12 million Americans.2
The debate over which software platform is best suited to manage physical assets continues. There are two main contenders: enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems offering a consolidated approach to tracking the organization’s activities and enterprise asset management (EAM) systems offering best-in-class functionality.
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.
How good is your organization at identifying failures? Of course you see failures when they occur, but can you identify when recurring failures are creating serious equipment reliability issues? Most companies begin applying RCA or RCFA to “high value failures”. While this is not wrong, I prefer to either not see the failure in the first place, or at the least, to reduce the failures to a controllable level.
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