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Work Order Execution and Data Capture

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

All of the work of backlog management, planning and priority targeted capacity scheduling are focused on efficient execution. To ensure that the tasks that need to be done, as per the true requirements of the plant, are done in a timely manner with as little waste of human and material resources as is possible.

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By Daryl Mather

Planning and scheduling functions are the key deliverables of the planning role. This is where the most gains in execution have the potential to be made and acted upon. In some larger organizations these are split, allowing more adequate resources for each role.

Backlog Management

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By Daryl Mather

Few tools are as useful to managing the maintenance workload and effectiveness as the Maintenance Backlog. In many companies today management of the maintenance backlog has been neglected. As a result they are generally drowning in their own data. A poorly managed system has a dramatic effect on the entire delivery of maintenance services.

CMMS and EAM

Upturn Takes Fresh Approach to CMMS Software

LAYTON, UT, —Upturn Solutions, a leading developer of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), asset and work management software solutions, today announced the availability of Sprocket 3.5. The newly enhanced software solution significantly reduces the time commitment maintenance managers and technicians need to perform daily work management tasks by displaying more information on a consolidated dashboard—reducing mouse clicks and data searching time.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

The Quest of the Two Questions: Part II - What Are We Doing to the Equipment?

by Peter Chalich

This is Part 2 of a two-part article. In the February/March 2014 issue, the How Is the Equipment Failing? article answered the question with a discussion on the value and methods of understanding how our equipment is failing. In Part 2, What Are We Doing to the Equipment?, we address the value and methods for understanding the services that we may or may not be providing our equipment.

CMMS and EAM

Automate SAP Plant Maintenance with Abaco Mobile Service Management

Abaco Mobile is a global leader in designing and deploying mobile solutions for SAP clients worldwide. Our focus on utilizing the native SAP content that customers have already paid for allows us to extend that functionality out to a mobile device at a greatly reduced cost - increasing ROI and reducing your total cost of ownership.

CMMS and EAM

VUEWorks 2009 Advances Affordable Physical Asset Management

VUEWorks, Inc. recently announced VUEWorks 2009, a greatly-expanded version of its web-based solution that enables municipalities, utilities and other organizations to track the condition, minimize failure risk, prioritize expenditures and service delivery of their physical assets.

CMMS and EAM

You Told Us…Here’s What We Heard

Dave Bertolini

Over the last few months, People and Processes, Inc. has been conducting a survey of computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), enterprise asset management (EAM), or enterprise resource planning (ERP) utilization, understanding, value to the organization and integration in support of maintenance activities.

Asset Management

ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Increases Asset Availability

Sponsor Case Study: ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Increases Asset Availability with Ivara EXP Enterprise Asset Performance Management Software

ArcelorMittal Tubular Products is one of the largest most diversified mechanical tube manufacturers in the world, with 21 plants operating in 11 countries with a capacity of more than 3 million MT annually. The company's product portfolio spans the entire range of steel tube products - seamless, DOM & ERW.

Improve Asset Health and Productivity by Leveraging Predictive Analytics

By Praveen Agrawal and Gayathri Baskaran

Exploring and producing Oil and Gas involves huge risk, uncertainty, and capital investment. Assets involved in exploration and production are very complex and expensive to design, build, operate and maintain. Hence, maximizing the performance of these assets throughout their life cycle along with controlling the costs is a pressurizing factor for oil and gas companies. Oil & Gas sector also has a responsibility of strictly adhering to Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards along with regulatory compliance. These regulations along with past asset failures force these companies to find ways to proactively predict and prevent asset failures. Majority of asset management software implementations focus mainly on reactive and preventive maintenance only, and haven’t leveraged the capabilities of control systems like SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems), Historian, statistical tools along with failure history for predicting the asset health.

CMMS and EAM

SAP EAM and CBM - Is It Time for Real Growth in the Level of CBM Adoption?

by Gus McIntosh

It has long been recognized that adopting an effective, predictive/condition-based approach to maintenance can significantly reduce cost when compared to more traditional preventive methods. Savings of up to 50 percent are considered very realistic.