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2019 Uptime Award Winner • Special Recognition Award: Best MRO • Ma’aden Aluminum Refinery

Hosny Elsayed, Mine & Refinery Reliability Manager at Ma’aden said, “We are one of the most reliable organizations; we are Uptime Award winners. And winning the Uptime Award is testimony to the Ma’aden Operational Excellence DNA that is present in all our business aspects.”

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Getting Started on Equipment Reliability? Look in the Dumpster!

The definition and concept of reliability remains elusive in terms of application. Ask as many folks as you can to explain what reliability means to them or their situation and the responses will vary wildly. This can be especially nebulous among the decision makers for resource allocation, but what they usually want is lower costs and more quality output.

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Is Your MRO Spare Parts Improvement Program ISO55000 Compliant?

Under ISO55000, a company must demonstrate that it is managing its assets from project phase to end of life. However, at many companies, the creation of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) spare parts master data is typically done very badly at the project phase and continues into the asset ownership phase.

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How Service Parts Planning Impacts Machine Uptime

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a very hot topic, and rightly so. Holding the promise of cutting down costly unplanned maintenance events, it’s one of those areas where the hopes of saving a lot of money are very real.

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No Part Left Behind: 4 Simple Rules for Efficient Inventory Management

Managing your inventory levels correctly can mean the difference between machinery that has broken down and is slowing down the assembly line or a smoothly running machine that is boosting productivity.

In today’s competitive industry, no company can afford downtimes and delays in production due to missing parts. With increased competition, companies depend on their supply chain to be leaner, healthier and faster than the competition.

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The MRO Dilemma: Major Time, Minor Spend

A universal situation in the world of the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) supply chain is that managing the process consumes an inordinate amount of time from all plant departments. The MRO spend is only six to 10 percent of a plant’s total, but it absorbs 70 to 80 percent of all transactions and causes 50 percent of the emergencies affecting plant reliability.

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Creating a Spare Parts Holding List With Confidence

As anyone with a hand in running a household knows, it’s important to keep a stockpile of key items. You certainly don’t want to find out the hard way that you’re on your last square of toilet paper! But in the case of a facility like a power plant, a missing spare part could be more than just a nuisance, it could be downright expensive.

Determining the appropriate spare parts to have on hand in a large facility, however, can be tricky. This is especially true after building a facility from the ground up, when you don’t have a frame of reference for which spare parts you’re most likely to need first.

Most organizations deal with this in one of two ways: 1) they guess or 2) they purchase according to a spares list provided by an equipment vendor.

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Interloc Releases Mobile Informer for Inventory Management for IBM Maximo

Interloc Solutions is pleased to announce our newest App Store addition to the Mobile Informer family -- InformerIM. InformerIM is a complete warehouse management solution, covering all common warehouse management tasks including issuing and returning, receiving and transferring, and counting and shipping for IBM Maximo.

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AME Announces Expansion Into Hydraulics

Advanced Mechanical Enterprises/AME is excited to announce the newest compliment to their wide range of predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance solutions, hydraulic service and repair. AME’s newly formed hydraulics division will be spearheaded by industry veteran, Jeremy Short and will offer hydraulic services on capstans, ramps and elevators, cranes, fire pumps, thrusters, propulsion systems, steering ears, stabilizers, trim tabs, hydraulic steering gear, side accommodation ladders, hydraulic assisted doors, hydraulic power jacks and much more.

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Spare parts go digital: a boost for the industrial spare parts business

Five percent of spare parts could currently be stored in digital warehouses. This would make parts more quickly and easily available, while creating considerable cost savings. Digitalisation will also enable individual customisation and an increase in the intelligence of parts.

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The Top 10 Improvements to Pursue in Your MRO Spare Parts Program

Proactive organizations recognize that one of the critical success factors in achieving a best practices reliability program is developing a sound maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) spare parts program. That notion is quickly followed by the realization that there are potentially hundreds of improvement opportunities that typically could be associated with a materials management effort. As such, it becomes overwhelming to determine where to start.

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A Perfect Storm for an MRO Stockroom Crisis

There is a multi-headed monster of a crisis barreling toward us.

This crisis in the sourcing, stocking and justifying of maintenance, repairs and operations (MRO) spares has been developing since the 1990s and will likely get worse before it gets better. The core of the crisis and the reasons for it are distinct. These distinct contributors form the perfect storm of trouble for any maintenance department, especially ones that have implemented lean principles. The solution is surprisingly in the domain of asset management.

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MRO Best Practices Special Report

A good maintenance storeroom is a well-oiled machine. Imagine 99.9 percent service levels for critical spares or window wait times under 10 minutes 95 percent of the time. A great storeroom gives you the capability to figure out what unidentified parts actually are or to know when your special-order parts hit the receiving dock.

The MRO Best Practices Report explores the conditions of successful storerooms, as well as those with little or no expertise in maintenance spare parts management. Results and insights on the Reliabilityweb.com Maintenance Management Benchmarking Survey are also included.

mro - spares management

2019 Uptime Award Winner • Special Recognition Award: Best MRO • Ma’aden Aluminum Refinery

Getting Started on Equipment Reliability? Look in the Dumpster!

Is Your MRO Spare Parts Improvement Program ISO55000 Compliant?

How Service Parts Planning Impacts Machine Uptime

No Part Left Behind: 4 Simple Rules for Efficient Inventory Management

IBM Acquires Oniqua

One-stop Shop MRO Distributors Best Positioned to Tap Growth Opportunities Created by IIoT-Enabled

New 3M Tape Tackles High Temperature Applications

The MRO Dilemma: Major Time, Minor Spend

Continental Introduces New Technology to Hose Crimping

Creating a Spare Parts Holding List With Confidence

Interloc Releases Mobile Informer for Inventory Management for IBM Maximo

AME Announces Expansion Into Hydraulics

Spare parts go digital: a boost for the industrial spare parts business

SKF Launches Newly Re-Engineered Mounted Ball Bearings

Using MRO Data to Support Plant Reliability

The Top 10 Improvements to Pursue in Your MRO Spare Parts Program

Key Performance Indicators for the MRO Storeroom: Stock Levels

A Perfect Storm for an MRO Stockroom Crisis

MRO Best Practices Special Report