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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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This indicator examines the root causes of breakdowns and then investigates whether the root cause should have been detected as part of the preventive maintenance program. This provides an
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.
Many organizations use the PM compliance metric as a measurement of their maintenance department’s performance. This metric is often viewed by professionals as a joke because if your PM
“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.”
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