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Work Execution Management

Steps to Audit and Benchmark your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Culture

Many organizations either have the need for or have implemented the role of the Maintenance Planner Scheduler. This is an important role in proactive maintenance cultures and properly utilized,

 

...Jeff Shiver, CMRP,CRL, CPMM, RCM2 Practitioner Managing PrincipalPeople and Processes, Inc.

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Log Everything

A detailed paper trail will help you track the "who," "when" and "what" of your facility's maintenance. This not only helps you to keep an eye on what has and hasn't been done already, but it

 

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Maintain Checklists for Each Piece of Equipment

Knowing when to inspect your machinery is one thing, but knowing what to look for is another. Each employee who will have a hand in inspections should have a thorough checklist so that they can

Work Execution Management

Schneider Electric Selects Simio for Wonderware MES Scheduling Capabilities

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Work Execution Management

Set a Schedule and Make Maintenance Easy to Understand

Every piece of equipment in your facility has a lifespan. And each lifespan is contingent on your ability to keep up with regular maintenance and servicing. The more complex your facility is, the

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Definition: Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

A software-based system that provides a link between planning and administrative systems and the shop floor. It can link MRP II-generated production schedules to direct process-control software.

 

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How Important is Maintenance Planning in Your Organization?

Everyone realizes planning is important; in fact, it has become so important that in many organizations, everyone is focusing on some amount of time on maintenance planning. Unfortunately, it's

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Returning Left Over Maintenance Parts from a Kit Back to the Storeroom

When parts are left over from a planned maintenance Kit, how are they to be returned to the storeroom? All, parts that are returned must be certified as a good part that can be stored in the It ...

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Measuring the Central Hub – Planning and Scheduling Metrics

We constantly hear about metrics like OEE, PM Compliance, and Schedule Compliance that help measure productivity, availability, and the maintenance work management process as examples. In the

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Carbon Brush Wear in DC Motors and Generators Caused by Silicone

It is known that the presence of silicone will cause very rapid wear of carbon brushes. The wear rate can be many times greater than the rate of wear would be if no silicone present. The The ...

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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Metrics

Ideally as a rule of thumb, you should have two leading metrics for every lagging metric. Leading metrics are performance drivers. Utilizing them allows you the opportunity to make ...

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Planning and Scheduling: The Impact of Trends in Shift Management

by Jack Rubinger

Know who has a lot of irons in the fire? Industrial production managers. They are responsible for mistakes, accidents, injuries, theft, security and asset management. This is the person who will have answers to questions like, “Where’s the pallet jack?”

The industrial production manager is in charge of day-to-day team performance, making sure it all works together as quickly and cost-effectively as possible, all while turning out a quality product.

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Do you Measure the Effectiveness of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling?

While many organizations have maintenance planning and scheduling individuals or groups, few measure the effectiveness of the function. Why is it that we want to measure anyway?

Improvement is one

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Work Priorities

Do you have a good process in place for prioritizing work orders? Do you know how to even start the process? IDCON suggests starting with the basics:

  • Establish clear priority rules
  • Follow the

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Equipment / Component Detail Cleaning

Companies tend to minimize the impact of basic cleanliness on equipment / components. Maintenance usually emphasize in condition monitoring programs such as vibration, temperature (motors, ...

Identification and Characterization of Work Shift Maintenance Time in Titanium Dioxide Plant

by Roberto Máscia

Faced with the current level of globalization, mergers of companies seeking market leadership and the tough competitiveness between them, there is a constant search for process optimization, as well as materials, contracted services and workforce optimization. Increasing productivity in all areas has become an important and differential element for reducing business costs.

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Definition: Planned Work

Work that has gone through a formal planning process to identify labor, materials, tools, and safety requirements. This information is assembled into a job plan package and communicated to craft

Work Execution Management

How to Use Practical Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE) During Corrective Maintenance

In this plant example the mechanics are scheduled to do Corrective Maintenance based on the Planned work orders that day. The work order states: Replace bearings on a press roll due to highHere ...

Middleware

By John Reeve

Introduction

Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) scheduling, specifically weekly scheduling, should be a three-step procedure: (1) select ‘Generate Schedule,' (2) specify the week start date and (3) click ‘Run.' This scheduling feature should be resident within every CMMS product and selectable from the work order main screen. A CMMS can read an entire maintenance backlog within 60 seconds to produce a resource-leveled, weekly maintenance schedule. You might wonder why this has never been implemented (me, too!). I would think that every organization - and industry - would want something like this.

Learn About a Heroic Journey to Organizational Change in New Audio book

Reliabilityweb.com has released a new audio book that provides guidance on making drastic changes to improve an organization. Through telling the story of a plant manager, the authors of Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It! compare the plant manager’s journey to The Chambered Nautilus in the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and even to the journey in the Wizard of Oz.

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