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Pushing IIoT Predictive Maintenance Forward: Two Challenges to Overcome

There’s no doubt the Internet of Things (IoT) is moving quickly to the front lines of industrial maintenance reliability and asset management. Communication between machines and human technicians, enabled by wireless technology and connected devices, is fueling a shift from preventative to predictive maintenance. But while the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) groundwork has been laid, and it’s projected to be a $151 billion market by 2020, the revolution is still young.

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Defect Elimination From a CMMS Perspective

Defect elimination may be the most significant initiative within a maintenance reliability program. It may also provide the largest return on investment in terms of asset reliability and plant uptime. From a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) perspective, defect elimination can be used to focus on recurring failures and significant events, and also to address potential failures.

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Maximo Asset Management, Made Simple

This document provides insights from a maintenance perspective, the day-to-day user of the system and the information contained within it. Identifying all maintainable assets and their physical locations are critical to the maintenance function. From this functionality, data to identify the required maintenance strategies, develop logical maintenance routes and identify routine spare parts can be understood.

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Synovos Named Amongst “20 Most Promising Enterprise Asset Management Solution Providers 2017”

Synovos, based in Radnor, PA, has been recognized as among the elite group of companies that are featured in the Enterprise Asset Management special edition of CIOReview magazine.

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Effective Execution

IMC-2016 RAP Talk - 14:53
by John Fortin, CH2M

What does effective execution look like? In this RAP Talk from IMC-16, John Fortin answers that question in a comprehensive and definitive way. After giving a brief overview on asset management, Fortin covers program development, implementation, challenges, and solutions. Additionally, a case study and additional resources are also discussed.

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Fundamental CMMS Data Considerations – Enabling Planning & Scheduling

‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’

Is one of your EAM goals to better Plan & Schedule work? That is common, as are these fundamental questions: Do we have

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Do We Really Want to Be Proactive? (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this article, we talked of how good managers must always try to keep their organizations energized, moving forward and upward. To do this, they must find ways to constantly disrupt complacent, status quo thinking and behavior.

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12 Seconds To Reliability: How Pit Crews Enable Winning Race Teams

IMC-2016 Keynote - 47:07
by Breon Klopp, Sestrana

Millions of dollars are at stake each week. Man and machine are regularly pushed to the point of failure. Years of preparation culminate in a few short seconds of performance with the success or failure of an entire organization weighing in the balance. The objective is singular; WIN.

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Active Supervision: Priest, Professor, or Prison Guard?

IMC-2016 RAP Talk - 20:54
by Joel Levitt, Reliabilityweb.com

Effective supervision increases productivity 15% with improvements in morale. The supervisor's job is multifaceted. You have to become the right person (priest, prison guard, life guard) at the right time for the right person. All of your change management goes away if the supervisor is not on board with the change. This short talk highlights some of the problems and opportunities from that role.

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The Changing Face of Asset Data Capture

In less than 10 years, the consumer digital camera essentially completely replaced film cameras, which had been in the market for over 100 years. In an even shorter period of time, the smartphone has, in turn, sent the consumer digital camera the way of its film based cousin.

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Operator Driven Reliability and Ultrasonic Inspection

Operator driven reliability (ODR) is a process that involves operators in the maintenance and reliability of their equipment. ODR selects tasks previously performed by maintenance technicians and reassigns these tasks to operators. However, ODR is only effective when operators are focused on specific tasks. Operators must be properly trained and coached in the performance of each task.

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Cohesive Earns Title of #1 Reseller of IBM Maximo for 3rd Time

Cohesive Solutions, a leading Enterprise Asset Management consultant and systems integrator, has been recognized as the #1 U.S. commercial reseller of IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software for 2016.

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A Glimpse at the Future

Editor’s note: From 1996 to 2000, the author had the privilege of doing a greenfield construction and start-up of a chemical plant in Asia. Part of the land was still being reclaimed from the ocean when he arrived. This article describes how he and the work team developed work processes to do things in the way they had always wanted to do them.

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Where CMMS Fits Into Your Reliability Journey

“Where CMMS Fits Into Your Reliability Journey”, an eMaint Best Practices Webinar hosted by Joel Levitt of ReliabilityWeb, discussed reliability functions that are only possible with accurate, complete and defect-free CMMS data. During the presentation, Levitt asserted that “CMMS is the hub that holds the spokes of your wheel, or reliability effort. Everything revolves around it.”

work execution management

Pushing IIoT Predictive Maintenance Forward: Two Challenges to Overcome

April - May 2017

WorkTech’s Productivity Suite on Display at 2017 MUWG Fall Workshop

Defect Elimination From a CMMS Perspective

Maximo Asset Management, Made Simple

Synovos Named Amongst “20 Most Promising Enterprise Asset Management Solution Providers 2017”

Effective Execution

Fundamental CMMS Data Considerations – Enabling Planning & Scheduling

Do We Really Want to Be Proactive? (Part 2)

12 Seconds To Reliability: How Pit Crews Enable Winning Race Teams

Active Supervision: Priest, Professor, or Prison Guard?

February - March 2017

The Changing Face of Asset Data Capture

Operator Driven Reliability and Ultrasonic Inspection

Utilizing Your CMMS to Drive PdM Activities

Cohesive Earns Title of #1 Reseller of IBM Maximo for 3rd Time

Breakdowns Caused by Poor PMs

A Glimpse at the Future

The 10% Rule of Preventive Maintenance

Where CMMS Fits Into Your Reliability Journey