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Fleet Maintenance Scheduling Tips

The first items scheduled are the units still in bays. Use substantial effort to solve whatever problem is keeping them from being finished. You can put a unit back on the street unfinished if ...

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Definition: Unplanned Maintenance

Maintenance performed without planning which could be related to a breakdown, repair, or corrective work. Unplanned maintenance may be scheduled during the normal work cycle.

Tip excerpted from: The Professional's

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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: Fill-in work

Fill-in work is work that is very simple, can be started, stopped, and re-started with little loss in effectiveness, doesn't involve other crafts and has minimal or no impact to the ...

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Validating Your Maintenance Program

Validate your maintenance strategy and process to drive improvements in your program and maximize the benefit of your CMMS or Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) implementation. As a ...

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Count Your Parts: IMPROVING STORE ROOM ACCURACY

Those of us in the business of supporting maintenance with spare parts have an obligation to maintain accurate inventory balances in our storerooms. We do this because an accurate inventory is

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One Simple Idea with Great Results – No Cost!

Everyone looks for the silver bullet or simple solution to their maintenance problems. How about this simple idea: Take your current maintenance process and ensure it is followed to the letter - ...

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How Effective is Your Asset Maintenance Program?

"I'm doing all my PMs but my equipment continues to fail, OEE is below acceptable levels and the Maintenance Department continues to fight fire. What's wrong?"

If this sounds familiar, you're not

... Paul Langan, Project Manager: +1 843.744.7110

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SAP - The Full Functional Location Set-Up

Often, when moving to SAP, many organizations do not take advantages of the full Functional Location set-up. Remember, SAP is a powerful tool and we need to take advantage on the front end to

...Level 2: Three (3) Character field for Plant on the site. A Business Unit can have multiple Plants in one Plant Site. Example: BU 1 has Plant A, Plant B, and Plant C. Example, for multiple plants on a site use 001, 002, 003. For our plant we will use 001Level 3: Two (2) Character field for Unit. Many plants can have multiple units. Use this field to identify the specific unit. For our purpose we will use monomer as our unit (MO)Level 4: Two (2) Character field for Process Step or Department. Our example is distillation (DS)Level 5: Twelve (12) Character field for Position, Instrument indicator or other miscellaneous data. Use of all twelve characters is not mandatory. Any additional information involved should be defined through the use of additional characters "-" within the defined field. For our purposes we will use pump P2334 (P2334).

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Definition:Visual Workplace

The use of visual display to relay information to employees and guide their actions. The workplace is usually set up with signs, labels, color-coded marking etc..., so that anyone unfamiliar ...

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V-Belt Maintenance “TOOL BOX TRAINING”

Reference: Belt Drive Preventive Maintenance Manual by Gates Corporation.

V-Belt Maintenance is a requirement if you want to insure optimum belt drive performance. This process requires proper maintenance and discipline in order to insure effective belt operation and a long service life. When coupled with a regularly scheduled maintenance program, belt drives will run relatively trouble-free for a long time.

General Rules: (if you want to stop V-Belt failures)

1. Insure proper alignment of sheaves both parallel and angular using a sheave laser alignment tool. Do not use a

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Definition: Pareto Principle

A principle that the critical few, about 20% of items such as assets, failures, parts etc., should receive attention before the insignificant many, usually about 80%. This principle is named

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SAP Notifications and Maintenance Orders: Track those Maintenance Costs

A Notification is usually written to record an equipment malfunction: Asset ID, dates, duration, damage, causes of damage, actions performed can be entered to a Notification. The Notification ...

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Definition: Maintenance History

A chronological list of all maintenance performed on an asset. Synonymous with equipment repair history and maintenance record.

Tip excerpted from: The Professional's Guide To Maintenance And

Effective Cycle Counting
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Effective Cycle Counting

An 9-minute iPresentation by Daniel DeWald, CPIM, GP Allied

Discussion involves the differences between a physical inventory once a year and a daily cycle count. A daily cycle count is preferred because it provides a continual measurement of inventory accuracy that is visible to both management and storeroom associates. Storeroom preparation to make cycle counting effective is essential and the steps are discussed to make this happen. Also scheduling counters and assigning tasks create responsibility and achieve more accurate inventories.

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Operator Care – Abnormality Reporting “TOOL BOX TRAINING”

Abnormalities are represented by the defects that enter our assets (point P on the P‐F curve) and that will eventually lead to a loss of function from that asset - what we consider a failure

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Fall protection PM ideas

(Specifics are from US rules. In the US follow OSHA 1926.500-3 and ANSI Z359 standards)

Retractors (SRL's, Retractable Lanyards, Self-Retracting Lifelines) -use OEM frequency by maintenance or

...Inspect using the standards for slings. No cuts, tears, chemical spills or weld splatter. Do not repair -discard if damaged. Otherwise replace every 5 years.

End of the Run To Failure Mentality
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End of the Run To Failure Mentality

A one hour long Webinar On Demand by Timothy Goshert, CMRP, Cargill

Unexpected equipment failure is causing business' losses each year in unplanned downtime, production volume losses, product quality, and customer service delays. Decrease unplanned downtime and provide customers with quality on-time products with use of a proactive maintenance program. Learn about some of the proactive maintenance and reliability strategies to prevent equipment failure.

View this FREE web workshop to learn:

1) A structured approach to understanding your equipment failure modes is necessary to be proactive

2) One must organize its assets in a logical manner and assess each assets' criticality

3) A structured method to understand each assets failure modes and their consequences is needed

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The Definition of Maintenance Reliability

I think what is most misunderstood about maintenance is the true objective of the function. The objective of maintenance is to maintain the assets of a company so that they meet the reliability

... "The probability or duration of failure-free performance under stated conditions"

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Definition: Maintenance Backlog

Maintenance Tasks that are essential to repair, or prevent, equipment failures that have not been completed yet.

Tip excerpted from The Professional's Guide To Maintenance And Reliability

There’s no ‘I’ in planner: building a team approach to planning & scheduling
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There’s no ‘I’ in planner: building a team approach to planning & scheduling

A one hour recorded webinar on demand by Shon Isenhour, ABB Reliability Services.

Planning & Scheduling can't be as effective when it's a one-person show. Instead, a team-oriented planning and scheduling unit, which includes members from both maintenance and operations, can be used more successfully to improve overall plant reliability. This webinar will teach you how to build a training program that focuses on retention and communication techniques, and certifies key positions within your planning & scheduling organization are being filled by individuals with the highest level of skill.

Participate to learn:

1) Learn how to build a team to improve plant reliability

2) Understand the crucial elements for training retention

3) Realize the importance of Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

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