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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.

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Intelligent Consumable and Tool Dispensers for E-Commerce and Industry 4.0

The smart automatic vending machine has everything under control: valuable tools or equipment are securely stored in separate drawer partitions. Electromechanically locked metal covers allow access only to the authorised persons identified by an ID card or a PIN code.

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Lightning Strikes Again as Shelby American Unveils Shelby F-150 Super Snake Street Truck

New Shelby F-150 Super Snake marks the return of the Shelby muscle truck
Only 150 total 2017 Shelby F-150 Super Snakes will be available at select Ford dealers
MSRP for the muscle truck, including base vehicle starts at $96,880
Supercharged truck churns out 750 tire-shredding horsepower

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Be a Better Buyer with Closed Loop MRO Purchasing

You can tell a lot about a maintenance organization by observing how it purchases and consumes repair parts. Reactive organizations only seem to have time to “keep it running.” They don’t have time to shop for the best deals. Instead, they send the same noncompetitive purchase orders to the same vendors and take whatever pricing they get. And their receiving dock looks like a major courier service depot – full of emergency shipments. Cycle counts are mysteriously high because received parts aren’t always checked into inventory. Or, cycle counts are mysteriously low because parts are not always checked out of inventory and/or are lost to theft.

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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

Intelligent Consumable and Tool Dispensers for E-Commerce and Industry 4.0

SKF Launches Remanufacturing Services for Industrial Gearboxes

Lightning Strikes Again as Shelby American Unveils Shelby F-150 Super Snake Street Truck

Be a Better Buyer with Closed Loop MRO Purchasing

Synovos Introduces ‘Plant Reliability Information Management’ Framework