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How Enterprise Asset Management Can Transform Your Organizational Practices

How Enterprise Asset Management Can Transform Your Organizational Practices

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) offers a myriad of benefits to an organization, primarily an asset-heavy company. But did you know EAM software can help businesses get organized?

IBM Acquires Oniqua

Strengthens Leading IoT Capabilities to Help Businesses Proactively Maintain Vital Assets

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

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

Distributors that offer value-added/after-sales services have a distinct edge over mere suppliers of equipment parts, says Frost & Sullivan

 New 3M Tape Tackles High Temperature Applications

New 3M Tape Tackles High Temperature Applications

3M™ VHB™ Tape GPH series is designed to withstand the high temperatures found in powder coating, liquid paint processes and more.

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The Importance of Preventive Maintenance

The Importance of Preventive Maintenance

Picture this: Like many Americans, you own a motor vehicle of some sort. That vehicle gets you from Point A to Point B, day in and day out. But, if you’re like most vehicle owners, you don’t consider basic routine maintenance, even on something you rely on the most. It is more of a break/fix relationship. Unfortunately, this same type of relationship is not uncommon in today’s data center industry. Various types of equipment are running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, which comes out to 8,760 hours in a year. Data centers cannot afford any of their equipment to fail. Therefore, preventive maintenance (PM) is a must.

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Argo Consulting

Argo is an operations improvement consulting firm that breaks through the traditional barriers of the consultant-client relationship. We are hands-on consultants who deliver real results and no excuses.

Optimizing Maintenance Through Asset Management

Optimizing Maintenance Through Asset Management

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 44:45
by Francis Concemino and Albert VanBreukelen, Inland Empire Utilities Agency

For most maintenance managers, the impact of their department to the success of the organization depends on their understanding of the business aspect and fundamental principles of maintenance philosophy. For a long time, the maintenance department has always been perceived to exist just to fix broken assets. For most maintenance organization, this mindset has shifted the maintenance management’s focus more on repair process rather than managing the asset’s life cycle, as a whole, to increase reliability and availability. History has proved that reactive maintenance strategy is costly and often unpredictable. To gain control over the never-ending chase of equipment repair approach, maintenance managers must adapt to proactive changes that improves asset availability and reliability.

This presentation shows a Public Utility Agency’s journey from reactive to proactive strategy by implementing a comprehensive condition based maintenance program, training on modern maintenance technologies, and solid communication between the department and its stake holders.

The MRO Dilemma: Major Time, Minor Spend

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.

 Harvard University Chooses InterPro Solutions to Transition to Maximo and EZMaxMobile

Harvard University Chooses InterPro Solutions to Transition to Maximo and EZMaxMobile

InterPro Solutions successfully implemented Maximo and EZMaxMobile at Harvard University. This facilities asset management solution includes IBM’s Enterprise Asset Management System, Maximo and InterPro’s enterprise-grade mobile solution, EZMaxMobile.

 Continental Introduces New Technology to Hose Crimping

Continental Introduces New Technology to Hose Crimping

Continental introduces intelligent, cloud-based crimper controller for hydraulic, industrial hose markets

 eMaint CMMS takes top honors in Plant Engineering and Uptime Magazine awards

eMaint CMMS takes top honors in Plant Engineering and Uptime Magazine awards

eMaint's CMMS system was also named the winner of the Work Execution Management category in the 2018 Uptime Magazine Solutions Awards.

 April - May 2018

April - May 2018

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 DPSI Releases Latest Version of iMaint CMMS Software

DPSI Releases Latest Version of iMaint CMMS Software

DPSI, an industry-leading computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) company based in Greensboro, NC, recently released iMaint version 4.2. iMaint is an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system that centralizes data and automates maintenance management tasks to help companies save time, lower costs, improve safety and make smarter asset management decisions.

 Uptime® Magazine Announces Solution Awards Winners for 2018!

Uptime® Magazine Announces Solution Awards Winners for 2018!

Excellence in innovative products, software, training and services for reliability and asset management.

 How To Achieve An Uptime Elements Black Belt

How To Achieve An Uptime Elements Black Belt

Do or do not – there is no try ~ Yoda

Are you one of those people who will not start a project until planning is close to perfect?

The Uptime Elements Black Belt program is designed

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How to Use Your Existing CMMS Tool & Data to Effectively Choose & Use the RIGHT Maintenance Strategy

How to Use Your Existing CMMS Tool & Data to Effectively Choose & Use the RIGHT Maintenance Strategy

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 42:26

by Nikolaus Despain, Leprino Foods Company.

In this Presentation, learn by shared Examples and Experiences from a large Food Manufacturer how they use their existing CMMS tool and data to effectively choose and use the “right” Maintenance Strategy.

Questions to be Answered and Areas to be covered:

What is the “right” Maintenance Strategy? RCA Blitz? – FMEA? – Run to Failure? – Routine Inspections? PdM? CBM? - Asset strategy? – Is there a Silver Bullet? Is it the same for every Asset? Or is there a simple way to start?

A Simple Way – Use Your existing CMMS Tool and Data as your starting point...

First Steps...

Evaluate...

Next Steps...

Using this Simple Way, the scope of Maintenance Reliability and Asset Strategy can be narrowed down to achievable steps.

Results – Increased Uptime, Reduced Maintenance Costs and more effective use of Maintenance Labor – In reasonable cost effective steps.

Using CMMS to Influence Culture: Herbalife’s Success Story

Using CMMS to Influence Culture: Herbalife’s Success Story

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 42:36

by Greg Perry, eMaint Enterprises, & Laura Phillips, Herbalife.

When it comes to improving reliability, many organizations focus on their machines. But you know what they forget about? People. Professionals sometimes forget about their people who are behind the machines, making the reliability program a reality.

Laura Phillips, CMMS Administrator at Herbalife, and Greg Perry, Sr. Consultant at eMaint, will explain how to foster and sustain a culture of communication and reliability with the support of a CMMS. Laura and Greg will define what maintenance culture is and the key success factors to make positive cultural changes.

Drawing on professional experiences, they will identify how maintenance teams can continuously optimize processes and spend more time identifying opportunities for further improvement, and less time dedicated to downtime activities with a strategic focus.

As CMMS experts and professionals in the field, the duo will also share successful approaches to implementation and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track via CMMS reporting tools and dashboards.

Whether an organization is actively engaged in improving maintenance culture, or never gave it a second thought, this session will offer valuable best practice insight into how to leverage your CMMS to sustain culture of communications and continuous improvement.

 UpKeep, Mobile Maintenance App for Deskless Workers, Gets $10M in Funding, Continues Growth

UpKeep, Mobile Maintenance App for Deskless Workers, Gets $10M in Funding, Continues Growth

UpKeep Lands $10M in Series A Funding, Its Software Fills Void for the Deskless Worker and the 80% of Organizations using Manual Maintenance Management Tools

How Failure Data Contributes to the Success of Your Reliability Program

How Failure Data Contributes to the Success of Your Reliability Program

Although more and more industrial plants have been incorporating reliability into their vocabulary, in several cases, something has been lost in translation. More times than not, when asked about their asset reliability program, maintenance reliability organizations do not have a process in place to document asset failures, specifically the utilization of failure coding within their computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). The goal of this article is to shed light on the long-lasting benefits of documenting failure data so that organizations not doing so become the exception rather than the rule.

Best Work Execution Management Program (Uptime Award Winner) - Skookum Contract Services

Best Work Execution Management Program (Uptime Award Winner) - Skookum Contract Services

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 31:03
by Robert Potter & Robert Fetter, Skookum Contract Services.

Skookum utilizes IBM / Maximo and the EX Max Mobile products to put the best possible tools in the hands of our workforce. The ability to leverage technology and process improvement more than demonstrates our ability to help our clients meet their mission while allowing our employees the ability to be as productive as possible. In essence, Maximo provides assistive technology that helps our employees succeed in their jobs.

Being recognized for our efforts with the 2017 Best Work Execution Management Program Uptime Award is greatly appreciated and demonstrates our quality in support of our client, in this case the United States Army at Ft. Lee, VA. At Ft. Lee, we have developed the technology and is the springboard for our team leveraging this experience for other locations across Skookum. Currently, we have over 300 users on multiple Maximo installations nationwide.

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