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How to Build a High Performance Maintenance Team
Work Execution Management

How to Build a High Performance Maintenance Team

A few years ago, this author inherited perhaps the world's most underperforming, unreliable, unpredictable, unacceptable and all other antonyms that are an antithesis for anything positive, maintenance team. The extreme lack of performance left all sorts of carnage piled up at the front door of the unemployment office. Maintenance managers did not last longer than 18 months before quitting or getting fired. To be fair, it was the result of long-term neglect and a few bad decisions by upper management. Nonetheless, the requirements of the job was to roll up the shirt sleeves, do a deep dive and fix it.

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Work Execution Management

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

"Sometimes I wonder if the maintenance reliability community (and now the asset management community) are making any progress at all."
- Reliability Guru Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO/Publisher Uptime magazine and Reliabilityweb.com

What has changed in last 10, 20, 50 years? Have you noticed any changes? There are some things that have changed and some that have stayed the same.

Work Execution Management

What Leading and Lagging Metrics Do You Use?

Recognize that there are two types of metrics, leading and lagging. Both are useful. To better understand the difference, ask yourself if you are operating within the organization as doctors or

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Work Execution Management

Using Metrics to Influence Planning and Scheduling Behaviors

While many organizations have maintenance planning and scheduling individuals or groups, few measure the effectiveness of the function. Why is it that we want to measure anyway?

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Motor Startup: Best Practices

When you push the start button of an AC motor, the current surge through the motor is usually four to seven times the 100 percent load.

If the start button is pushed several times in a short time

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Work Execution Management

What is your Maintenance Focus?

Most companies focus on repairing equipment after some functional failure has occurred and getting the equipment operational again. Is that the primary focus of your facility? Different studies

 

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Uptime Magazine Announces Best Maintenance Reliability Program Award Winners for 2015

Uptime®, a magazine serving over 50,000 maintenance Reliability Leaders and Asset Management Professionals, announced the winners of the Best Maintenance Reliability Program Awards for 2015.

Work Execution Management

MRO Inventory Management in Support of EAM

Enterprise Asset Management emphasizes the importance of ensuring the right work is done - by the right people - with the right parts - at the right time. An effective MRO Inventory Management

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Work Execution Management

Shutdown Best Practices Checklist

As a part of IDCON's Shutdown Optimization Program, shutdown (SD) best practices are reviewed to safely reduce shutdown duration and reduce costs.

Have you considered utilizing any of these

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What Does It Feel Like to be on the Reliability Journey?
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

What Does It Feel Like to be on the Reliability Journey?

Solutions 2.0 2015 Conference - 51:50
By Terrence O'Hanlon, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine

The Lost Art of Scheduling
Work Execution Management

The Lost Art of Scheduling

Asset Management System (AMS) Implementation

AMS implementations are usually quite involved. Software is installed and configured, processes are documented and improved, and roles and responsibilities are clarified. The project team will identify as-is and to-be processes. More importantly, the project manager must facilitate these workshops, coordinate resources and communicate change. With so much at stake, why aren't AMS project managers making full use of the project management tools, such as scheduling software?

Work Execution Management

Maximize Equipment Reliability While Minimizing Maintenance Cost

The primary goal of any maintenance strategy is to perform the right maintenance at the right times - for your plant or facility. But how do you make these decisions today? Is there any guessing

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Solution Awards 2015 Winners

Uptime® Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com® are proud to bring you the Solution Awards to recognize innovative products, software, training and services for maintenance reliability and asset management.

Categories:

  • Best Reliability Engineering for Maintenance
  • Best Asset Condition Management
  • Best Work Execution Management
  • Best Leadership for Reliability
  • Best Asset Management

Winners were recognized at a special ceremony held at Solutions 2.0 on August 3, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

Congratulations!

Maintaining Data Integrity with Enterprise Asset Management
Work Execution Management

Maintaining Data Integrity with Enterprise Asset Management

iPresentation - 19:25
By Adam Hoge, Dematic Sprocket Sales Manager

Maintaining Data Integrity with Enterprise Asset Management is 20-Minute iPresentation featuring Adam Hoge – Dematic Sprocket Sales Manager, Dematic.

Uptime Elements Defect Elimination
Work Execution Management

Defect Elimination - Removing the alligators

It’s difficult to remember the goal is to drain the swamp when you're up to your armpits in alligators.  Maintenance is like that - sometimes you have to remove the cause of repeat failures

 

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Work Instruction Frustrations
Work Execution Management

Work Instruction Frustrations

iPresentation - 11:30
By Peter Morris, Managing Director, MCS PRO Inc.

Work Execution Management

Work Execution Auditing

A good question to ask is why would we want to bother with Work Execution Auditing?

Here are a few good reasons that might help you decide to give it a try.

  1. After all the work and

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Work Execution Management

Selecting the Right Maintenance Method

Step 2 in IDCON's 3-step process for optimizing Preventive Maintenance is selecting the Maintenance Method. We break this Step into three components:

  • Function and component
  • Failure Modes

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Work Execution Management

Stepping in the Right Direction

Struggling to become reliable? Is every day a new day from a chaos perspective? Realize you are not alone but more importantly, also that there is a better way. Thinking the people don't want to

 

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