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Assess Yourself

If you want to improve your Maintenance and Reliability Program, assess your present program first. Some people feel they may know what has to be done, but unless an evaluation of present

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How Important is Maintenance Planning in Your Organization?

Everyone realizes planning is important; in fact, it has become so important that in many organizations, everyone is focusing on some amount of time on maintenance planning. Unfortunately, it's

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Chamber Controller Alarm Implementation

Consider adding an additional alarm lamp and buzzer to trigger the chamber in the event of a temperature spike from either a heater or LN2 issue. In the early days when the chamber was running

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The Story of a Work Order

by Tarek Atout, CMRP

Fiction, Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Drama

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Returning Left Over Maintenance Parts from a Kit Back to the Storeroom

When parts are left over from a planned maintenance Kit, how are they to be returned to the storeroom? All, parts that are returned must be certified as a good part that can be stored in the It ...

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Measuring the Central Hub – Planning and Scheduling Metrics

We constantly hear about metrics like OEE, PM Compliance, and Schedule Compliance that help measure productivity, availability, and the maintenance work management process as examples. In the

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How Important is Leadership in the Success of Asset Management or Asset Reliability Improvements?

Commitment from senior management is a critical precondition for a successful asset management system. Although incremental improvement projects can be initiated throughout the organization, it

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Carbon Brush Wear in DC Motors and Generators Caused by Silicone

It is known that the presence of silicone will cause very rapid wear of carbon brushes. The wear rate can be many times greater than the rate of wear would be if no silicone present. The The ...

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Users of Enterprise Asset Management Systems Who and How Important Are They?

by Rajesh Gopalan

There are many factors contributing to a successful enterprise asset management (EAM) implementation, not the least of which is the strategic relation between IT and the business during an implementation or product development lifecycle. While synergy between IT and business strategies is essential, another core element is the EAM user’s participation in the implementation and product development process. In fact, it’s one of the most critical elements to a successful EAM system.

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10 Things Your Equipment Operators Can Do Today to Improve Reliability

by Doug Plucknette

There’s no denying that the equipment that makes your products and the operators who operate it are the most valuable assets an organization has. So unless you are actually manufacturing product and putting it out the door, you are overhead. From the janitorial services to the CEO, you are just another additional cost that has to be included in the cost of the product.

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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Metrics

Ideally as a rule of thumb, you should have two leading metrics for every lagging metric. Leading metrics are performance drivers. Utilizing them allows you the opportunity to make ...

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Tapping Into The Value Of Experience

by Winston P. Ledet

A common joke is that there are people who have one year of experience 20 times and others who have 20 years of experience. The distinction between these two levels of experience is how much people have learned from their experience and how receptive their organization is to using that experience.

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Planning and Scheduling: The Impact of Trends in Shift Management

by Jack Rubinger

Know who has a lot of irons in the fire? Industrial production managers. They are responsible for mistakes, accidents, injuries, theft, security and asset management. This is the person who will have answers to questions like, “Where’s the pallet jack?”

The industrial production manager is in charge of day-to-day team performance, making sure it all works together as quickly and cost-effectively as possible, all while turning out a quality product.

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Information Management – Are Your People, Processes, Technologies Integrated?

If you feel that you are working in disconnected workflows, you are not alone and lack of clarity is a barrier to common understanding, introducing risk and inefficiency. One good measure ofWhat ...

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Do you Measure the Effectiveness of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling?

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?

Improvement is one

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ERP and EAM: Partners, Not Competitors

The debate over which software platform is best suited to manage physical assets continues. There are two main contenders: enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems offering a consolidated approach to tracking the organization’s activities and enterprise asset management (EAM) systems offering best-in-class functionality.

by Tracy Smith

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Work Priorities

Do you have a good process in place for prioritizing work orders? Do you know how to even start the process? IDCON suggests starting with the basics:

  • Establish clear priority rules
  • Follow the

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Do You Have a Vendor Kitting Program?

Consider establishing a vendor/supplier kitting process at your facility. This is a relatively new concept but beginning to take hold, especially in fast moving assembly operations that require

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Equipment / Component Detail Cleaning

Companies tend to minimize the impact of basic cleanliness on equipment / components. Maintenance usually emphasize in condition monitoring programs such as vibration, temperature (motors, ...

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Achieving Cost Reduction Targets Through MRO Data Cleansing

As competition and technology continue to evolve in today’s industrial and manufacturing industries, companies are faced with the ever-increasing challenge of reducing costs and improving efficiency while maintaining production uptime. These manufacturing companies often have multiple sites spread across large geographic regions, each with thousands of MRO spare parts on hand to keep operations running. In such large organizations, several different employees enter items into various enterprise systems at each site with little or no standard guidelines and often in multiple languages. Over time, this lack of standardization causes materials data to become inconsistent and inaccurate, resulting in many negative effects that can be felt throughout all units of the business.

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