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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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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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Reducing Maintenance Costs in a Sustainable Way

Reducing Maintenance Costs in a Sustainable Way

Many companies have executed ad-hoc and sometimes drastic cost cutting approaches. Although probably justifiable for the short term, these so-called quick wins can have serious drawbacks on the long term. Is there a better way to do it? Yes there is! This presentation will show you how to reduce maintenance costs in a sustainable way. Companies using this approach have been able to reduce maintenance spending by 20-50%; yearly recurring savings without penalizing equipment uptime or SHE compliance. It is a challenge, but it can be done! Can you afford not to learn how?

Work Execution Management - Refining Processes

Work Execution Management - Refining Processes

In this webinar, Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine and Kahn Ellis, COO, Vesta Partners discuss the importance of Work Execution Management in your asset reliability program.

How SAP Tools Can Improve Your Scheduling Process and Deliver Efficiency Results

How SAP Tools Can Improve Your Scheduling Process and Deliver Efficiency Results

A presentation by Gus McIntosh, Vesta Partners. Originally recorded at the 2012 Reliability Forum for SAP Users

An effective Scheduling Process is a major element of any maintenance strategy and continuous improvement program yet many organizations still struggle to put together the correct mix of business process, communication and software tools that will drive efficiency and deliver performance improvements.

Intelligent Transformer Management: A New Perspective

by Alan Ross

Why do we need a new perspective? Consider the following actual case scenario. The story you are about to read is true. The facts and circumstances are real. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent (or “ignorant” depending on how you want to look at it).

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Profiling Power Users

Profiling Power Users

A 23 minute iPresentation by Allan Rienstra, SDT Ultrasound Solutions

 

Resonance - Machinery Rock and Roll

Resonance - Machinery Rock and Roll

An 18 minute iPresentation by Ron Newman, Pruftechnik.

You Deserve Your 3 “RIGHTS”

You Deserve Your 3 “RIGHTS”

All manufacturing organizations own a warehouse for MRO spares and most of these organizations use a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) as a tool to support the maintenance function. This article will focus on the integration between CMMS modules that serve maintenance, mainly work order, inventory and purchasing.

RIME for Work Prioritization: Median Time to Complete Work Orders

Work Prioritization: Emotion vs. Logic

by George Mahoney

A Supervisor's Typical Morning

Its 7 a.m. and Rich's head is already spinning. He hasn't even finished his first cup of coffee and already three different customers have screamed at him. While the customers are from three completely different business areas, they have two things in common:

They each have an "emergency" that needs to be taken care of right now.

They each refer to themselves as THE most important person on site.