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Making Maximo Work for You - Hard Reservations, Soft Reservations, and Back Orders

Starting with Maximo version 7.5, it is possible to reserve items by indicating a reservation type of Soft, Hard, or Automatic. This reservation type is applied on the Plans tab within the Work ...

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Definition: Planned Work

Work that has gone through a formal planning process to identify labor, materials, tools, and safety requirements. This information is assembled into a job plan package and communicated to craft

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Definition: Preventive Maintenance

An equipment maintenance strategy based on replacing, or restoring, an asset at a fixed interval regardless of its condition. Scheduled restoration tasks and replacement tasks are examples of

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How Do You Match or Select Your Materials When Doing Corrective Maintenance?

The Problem:

The skilled millwright and pump specialist has experienced multiple breakdowns with a centrifugal pump. The pump has been rebuilt multiple times but it keeps breaking down with 4-6

 


The materials used in the mechanical seal were as follows:
Shaft - 400 series SS
Sleeve - Titanium
Setscrews - Carbon steel

The Cause:
The dissimilar metals in this case were corroding away the setscrews. Basically the setscrews become the sacrificial anodes between the shaft and the sleeve.

The Solution:
The carbon steel setscrews where replaced with hastaloy C. The pump has now been running for over two years.

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Getting a Grip on Maintenance Costs with Asset-Based Budgeting

Maintenance adds value by providing available, reliable, safe and eco-friendly production equipment. Yet, fulfilling this task involves costs that can account for a significant part of a

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How to Use Practical Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE) During Corrective Maintenance

In this plant example the mechanics are scheduled to do Corrective Maintenance based on the Planned work orders that day. The work order states: Replace bearings on a press roll due to highHere ...

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Clean & Prioritize Your CMMS System

In this tip we want to point out one of the more important reliability improvement implementation steps; Clean & Prioritize your CMMS system. This is where we must take a hard look at our ...

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Do You Know the 5 Pillars of MRO? Do You Use Them?

There are 5 strong pillars needed to develop a program of MRO (Maintenance parts, repair parts, and operating supplies) and the maintenance storeroom.
The pillars are:

1. Storeroom Management
2. MRO Buying and Purchasing Management
3. Inventory Management
4. Supplier Management
5. Work Processes

Spanning the

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Here’s Your Sign…

Last fall I was engaging in some mindless entertainment watching "Dances with the Stars" on the television. An interesting event took place, a favorite dancer of the judges was voted off. The

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Definition: Six Losses

The major losses, in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), that occur due to inadequate equipment operation or condition:

1. Breakdown

2. Setup and Adjustment

3. Minor Stoppages

4. Speed Reductions

5.

... by Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and Robert Baldwin

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Vendor Buy Backs

One way to reduce the inventory levels in the storeroom is to solicit help from your vendors. Parts that have had little turn-over are candidates or parts that may be obsolete by other

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Procrastinating 101

This year has been great for your company, the facility is expanding, and new equipment is being installed... But you don't have a CMMS or EAM in place. You've just been overwhelmed withMight ...

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Diesel Fuel Injector Failures

Has your injector life been dramatically reduced? Are you also seeing increased fuel filter plugging? Are you seeing a very dark substance on your fuel filter media? If the answer to these

The ...

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Definition: Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)

Direction of maintenance actions based on indications of asset health as determined from non-invasive measurement of operation and condition indicators. CBM allows preventative and corrective

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What are the Values, Beliefs and Expectations of your Maintenance Storeroom?

"Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations" - Brian Tracy, The Treasury of Quotes

This quote is timely in the discussion of Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) supplies and the maintenance storeroom.

...People and Processes, Inc.

Fourteen Steps to Defect Elimination: Why They Are Key to Achieving a Reliable Plant
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Fourteen Steps to Defect Elimination: Why They Are Key to Achieving a Reliable Plant

An hour long presentation by Jason Tranter, Managing Director, Mobius Institute

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Benchmarking, Best Practices, Standardization… Development or Envelopment?

by Daniël A. Lachman and Roy O. F. Tjoen A Choy

This article provides insight into the reasons why concepts, like benchmarking standards, best practices and standardization, can be harmful to entities, such as businesses, industries, departments, etc. It introduces the notion of “context” and argues that concepts that have proven their merit shouldn’t be blindly adopted and implemented in alien contexts. They should be validated first and be adjusted or modified based on the results.

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The New Face of Maintenance Software

Never underestimate changing technology, as technology advances the potential for simplicity increases. CMMS software systems have kept up with these advances in technology to simplify the user

The New Face of SAP Maintenance
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The New Face of SAP Maintenance

SAP has made many changes to the user interface to improve usability. This presentation will focus on standard content that is available to customers upgrading to the latest versions of SAP. We will quickly review the history and then show actual demo of the product. This is not your dad's SAP. See the new face of SAP for Maintenance.

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Spare Parts Description Naming Convention

Spare Parts naming has always been a challenge, from the lack of description standardization among parts manufacturers to CMMS & ERP systems templates (parts classification) being configured by

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