The Manufacturing DaySM co-producers are pleased to welcome back the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) and Kelly Services as repeat sponsors. Both companies recently pledged their support to this national movement. NTMA renewed its Silver sponsorship and Kelly Services renewed its Bronze sponsorship.
Mobile along with enhancements in analytics and integrated planning and scheduling enable asset-intensive companies to fully unlock the power of SAP Plant Maintenance.
An important aspect of Preventive Maintenance is condition monitoring. You should be inspecting bearing hold down bolts and cap bolts (if applicable) for looseness and corrosion.
Why is ...• Loose mounting bolts will cause vibration and will gradually cause misalignment and bearing damage.
The roster of Manufacturing DaySM 2015 sponsors has added two key supporters as the American Welding Society and Herbalife, a global nutrition company, recently pledged their support to this national movement - both at the Silver level. AWS is entering its third consecutive sponsorship year and Herbalife has joined as a first-time sponsor.
What is the plant maintenance program? The plant maintenance program depicts the interaction of the total plant population as they request or identify work; classify it to determine the best reaction; plan, schedule, assign, control and measure the resulting work; and assess overall accomplishments against goals, such as performance standards and budgets.
Maintenance is about mitigating the consequences of failure (the risks). Managing the Maintenance Backlog is no different, it too is about managing risk. Instead of looking at backlog only in
Tip Provided by: Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM, CRL, RCM2 Practitioner Managing Principal
That question seems simple enough, however the answer may be one of the fundamental causes for P&S efforts that fail to deliver their potential. Normally, the answer to this question comes from
In his new book Secrets of Success With Procedures, Jack Nicholas, Jr., BS, MBA, P.E., CMRP, CRL, internationally recognized expert in business operations and maintenance reliability and a decorated US Navy veteran and naval engineer, shares his experiences on the importance of written procedures to operations success. Nicholas describes and discusses many management attributes centered on written procedures and includes a sample procedure found in COMPROSE Inc’s Zavanta Policies and Procedures Management Software.
One of the main factors affecting major and minor shutdown schedules is to understand "why you are shutting down". We call this the ‘shutdown drivers'.
LOOP was honored to receive the 2014 Uptime Award for Best Work Execution Management, which was presented at the International Maintenance Conference on December 12, 2014 in Daytona, Florida. Our reliability group worked in concert with maintenance and operations to create a proactive culture by setting and achieving asset and work management goals. Thanks to our owner representatives from Marathon, Shell and Valero, executives, the management team and administrative support; this was truly received as a company-wide award for LOOP recognizing the accomplishments of the entire organization.
Maintenance tasks initiated as a result of the observed or measured condition of an asset or system, before or after functional failure, to correct the problem. Corrective maintenance can be
For decades maintenance management has been obsessed with the pursuit of making sure planned predictive (PdM) & preventive (PM) maintenance jobs are executed and signed off on, in hopes of 1. ...
The Hydraulic Institute (HI) and Pump Systems Matter (PSM), HI’s educational affiliate, recently signed a joint training partnership agreement with Ambeone DMCC/Marketways Arabia, located in Dubai, UAE. The training partnership will bring the first ever Pump Systems Optimization Course (PSO) course in the Middle East. Together, the companies share the mutual goal to bring the latest pump systems education programs to the Middle East. The executive leadership of HI, the global authority on pumps and pumping systems, is looking forward to partnering with Ambeone, a leading training institute based in Dubai. Together, both organizations will bring the most comprehensive pump training programs to increase energy efficiency as well as pump systems reliability and profitability across many countries.
If you have implemented your CMMS or are in the planning stage, you want to make sure you are getting the most value out of your investment. We all know that it’s the details and planning that make all the difference. Review the top 5 CMMS areas that, with the right focus will drive the most return to your company. Join us to learn how:
A Process to optimize preventive maintenance(PM) tasksand frequencies to educe likely failure modes by utilizing tools/techniques such as FMEA,RCM,and CBM.
If you need to implement a new planning and scheduling program, you’re probably discovering that the task can be rather daunting. You need the right resources, the right organizational support, the right data, the right business practices, the right amount of time, the right change management approach, and the list goes on. This high level generic stuff may seem like implementing planning and scheduling just isn’t within your grasp. But there are ways to achieve an environment that will support a planning and scheduling program that works with what you already have in place and takes into account what your team is able to manage throughout implementation and beyond. If you take a closer look at what you already have, putting the final touches on a successful planning and scheduling program may not really be that big a beast to tackle.
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