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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

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 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.

 CMMS Company Goes Hands Free with Personal Voice Assistant Integration

CMMS Company Goes Hands Free with Personal Voice Assistant Integration

Maintenance Care, a leading provider of computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) announced today that it is expanding the capabilities of its system by integrating its platform with Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa. Customers can now use Amazon’s Echo devices equipped with Alexa to provide them with audio maintenance updates and task reminders.

Creating a Spare Parts Holding List With Confidence

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.

 February - March 2018

February - March 2018

Click to read all articles from this issue. You can also download the full PDF.

2017 Uptime Awards - Recognizing the Best of the Best!

2017 Uptime Awards - Recognizing the Best of the Best!

Uptime magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.

 Ontracks Consulting Named IBM’s Top Maximo Reseller for 2017

Ontracks Consulting Named IBM’s Top Maximo Reseller for 2017

Leading Maximo implementer recognized by IBM for continued sales success.

Reactive Plants Suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder, and There Is a Cure

Reactive Plants Suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder, and There Is a Cure

The RELIABILITY Conference - 29:56
by Michael Aroney, Allied Reliability Group

The Executive Function of the brain is a set of mental skills that helps us get things done. It occurs in the frontal lobes and allows us to manage time, pay attention, switch focus, plan and organize, remember details, and do things based on experience. Individuals with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have lowered functioning in the frontal lobes resulting in a diminished ability to (1) organize: gather information and structure it for evaluation; and (2) regulate: take stock of the environment and changing behavior in response to it. Without some manner of response to enhancing these abilities, the results are often disorganization, inefficiency, increase in spending on lost items, increased time to complete tasks, and last minute changes in plans.

It is an amazing coincidence that the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder are also displayed in reactive plants. The diminished Executive Function, in this case, is analogous to disengaged leadership due to functional silos and fragmented communication between them, resulting in what Dr. Michael Hammer called "process fragmentation". What is also notable is that the interventions for helping someone with ADD compensate in order to lead a more proactive life are very similar to what a plant with a reactive maintenance and reliability environment would employ to move from a reactive posture of "fixing an asset after it breaks" to "fixing an asset before it breaks".

This presentation will present the parallels between ADD in humans and reactive plants and the interventions used to build proactive behaviors and results.

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