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Work Execution Management

Prepare a Private Budget

The installation of any new system will affect your budgeted expenditures. You will have extra labor until people get used to the new systems and extra parts as you bring your fleet up to

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Scheduled Compliance is Arguably the Most Important KPI for Improving Work Management

Being successful here quickly identifies success in many other processes and KPIs. Let's be clear - 100% of available maintenance man-hours must be scheduled. Some organizations plan for

 

Work Execution Management

Writing Work Requests/Work Orders in SAP

When failures occur, it is usually first recognized at the equipment level by operating or production units (should personnel be mentioned instead of units?). When a malfunction takes place, if

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Work Execution Management

1st Maintenance Priority - Understand Your Customer’s (needs)

I have spend the last 22 years in maintenance, operations and quality. When I looked back I noticed that I became a different maintenance manager after an assignment in operations. By now it is

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Remembering Measurements

I have a simple tip that always saves me time. When making measurements, place a piece of white electrical tap on the side of the tape measurer, each time you take a measurement write it down

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Building Steam

A Story of Hard Work, Dedication, and, Ultimately, Transformation

by  Judith Charlton and Steve Lipscombe

Sembcorp UK, one of the leading suppliers of utilities to UK industry, is transforming its operations.  Steam and power operations are vital to the success of Sembcorp UK and its customers in the petrochemical, power and biofuels sectors.  Just five years ago the business was struggling to manage an aging power station and all its associated problems with limited resources.  The challenges seemed insurmountable.

Breaking Through Glass Ceilings

Thoughts on Implementing Organizational Change

by R. Keith Mobley, MBB, CMRP

Have you ever been involved in an attempt to improve the performance of your department or one function, such as maintenance or quality, in your plant or corporation?  Ever wonder why the attempt did not work at all or failed to reach its full potential?  If you have, the reason was probably a list of deficiencies or omissions, or perhaps it was because cosmic forces  preordained that improvement is not possible.  Sound familiar?

Getting on Top of Maintenance Costs

Principal Consultant Stuart Carlile explains a process to assist with better Maintenance Cost Management.

Work Execution Management

Eliminating Pipe Stress “Gang Box Training”

Maintenance Supervisors should use this tool to train their maintenance techs, welders and contractors - 10-20 minutes - Post them in the Maintenance Shop after use

Pipe stress is caused by

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Reliability 101 - Session 5: Reliability Metrics
Work Execution Management

Reliability 101 - Session 5: Reliability Metrics

Reliability 101 - Session 5 Reliability Metrics
A 7:15 minute iPresentation Tutorial

Ramesh Gulati, AEDC Best Practices Result in Reliability Book

Ramesh Gulati, asset management and reliability planning manager with ATA, has been called an “ambassador” for AEDC. That’s because everywhere he goes - both inside and outside the company - he tries to create a “reliability culture” and spread the word about how AEDC is building and designing reliability into all of its systems.

Gulati conducts Reliability-Centered Maintenance courses at AEDC and has authored a book, with contributions by Ricky Smith, “Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices,” published last year.

The Business Case For Reliability

"It's OK to get Excited about Maintenance" has been the introduction that I have given on every presentation related to maintenance, reliability, and asset management. Those presentations go on to say that the reason for this is the business case associated with doing it right. Asset Management initiatives have been documented to have Returns on Investment (ROI) ranging from 4:1 to 50:1. In fact, many organizations have found that a Total Equipment Asset Management (TEAM) initiative has proven to be the best investment that they have ever made in their facility.

Work Execution Management

Guaranteed Efficiency

Now that many more of us are looking at motor nameplate data, with emphasis on finding out what the efficiency is, what the heck is "Guaranteed Efficiency"?

Guaranteed minimum is another efficiency that is sometimes noted on a nameplate. This value is determined from a mathematical relationship that assumes the worst efficiency of any motor in a batch - used to determine the average (nominal) value - could have losses as much as 20% higher than the average. As a result, each nominal efficiency value would have a corresponding minimum efficiency value. You can view these values in Table 12-8 in NEMA MG-1.

Remember, when working with energy cost analysis programs not to confuse this with the Full Load Efficiency. You want to use Full Load Efficiency for your analysis.

Tip provided by PdMA Corporation

Fluor New Venture in Qatar Wins Five-Year Maintenance Contract for Pearl Gas-to-Liquids Project

Fluor Corporation announced today that Qatar National Facilities Services, a new venture partly owned by Fluor, signed a major long-term maintenance and services contract with Qatar Shell Gas-to-Liquids Limited (QSGTL) for its Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (Pearl GTL) project in the industrial city of Ras Laffan, Qatar. The Pearl GTL project is being developed under a production sharing agreement with Qatar Petroleum. Following a competitive tendering process, the new contract was awarded to provide maintenance services for the utilities and gas-to-liquids process sections of the plant. The contract has a five-year duration and financial terms were not disclosed.

BOMA International Testifies Before Congress on Commercial Building Maintenance

The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International testified before Congress today on commercial building maintenance in a hearing titled “Capital Crisis Management: Maintaining Federal Real Estate with the Dwindling Federal Building Fund.” As the committee considers how to allocate funds for the maintenance of federal buildings managed by the U. S. General Services Administration (GSA), BOMA was called to testify on building maintenance best practices in private sector commercial buildings. Richard W. Greninger, managing partner, Carr Services, represented BOMA International before the hearing of the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

TÜVRheinland Accredited by Standards Council of Canada

Special Inspection Service Accreditation in Accordance with SPE-1000-09, Which Allows Field Evaluations of Electrical Equipment in Canada

Six Ways Outsourced Equipment Maintenance Saves

Outsourcing Equipment Maintenance to a Third-Party Specialist Is a Cost-Effective Alternative

You Want How Much Money?

The end of the year is near. If your maintenance operation is based around the calendar year, you may want to consider the following to prepare for the coming year.

Work Execution Management

Locking in Day-to-Day Defect Elimination

If your maintenance department spends more time fixing breakdowns than discovering and eliminating the causes of faults, you know you're on shaky ground. You wonder: how do others manage to

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Leadership for Reliability

A Vision of Enterprise Reliability

Looking Into the Future of the Industry

by Dennis Belanger


What is the ultimate vision for enterprise reliability?  If you’re like me, occasionally you find yourself drifting off into a day dream.  One of the recurring day dreams I’ve been having for the last 10 years involves this question.  I often lapse into deep thought, pondering, “How is all of this reliability and maintenance stuff supposed to work?

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