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Maintenance.org Webinar: Building your Professional Network and your Professional Brand

Maintenance.org Webinar: Building your Professional Network and your Professional Brand

Please join us for a series of short tutorials on how to use the FREE member web site to build your professional brand and your professional network.

Building a professional network is easy and fun at the Association for Maintenance Professionals web site. As you build your professional network, it is a good time to consider what you want to accomplish - or what brand you want to build for yourself.

One of the advantages of your FREE membership at the Association for Maintenance Professionals is being able to connect with people who DO WHAT YOU DO.

The online community at http://www.maintenance.org does allow you a platform to post your accomplishments, educational achievements, awards and more.

About the Association for Maintenance Professionals

The Association for Maintenance Professionals is a not for profit association dedicated to facilitating networking between maintenance and reliability professional.

The web site at http://www.maintenance.org has been called the LinkedIn or Facebook for the maintenance and reliability community without so much job Recruiting and NO commercial advertising.

SAP hint

Configuring your SAP system to accept maintenance notifications as triggers from asset inspections or condition monitoring systems can be done either to the equipment IDs, the functional

Managing MRO Inventory by Using ABC Classification

Managing MRO Inventory by Using ABC Classification

An 8-minute iPresentation by Daniel DeWald, CPIM, GP Allied

ABC management is an underutilized management tool that can assist in four areas-cycle counting, lot sizing, obsolescence, and storeroom reorganization. The result is improved inventory decision-making, and better control of the inventory dollars.

Bonus WhitePaper Download (PDF) - Click here to download ABC Classicfiation

Help… I’ve Fallen and Can’t Get MY Information

I routinely get emails from articles, i-Presentations, Webinars, and Maintenance Tips provided to Reliability Web (thanks Terry) they all seem to start the same way... My CMMS or EAM is a big

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Taking Charge

Increase Safety & Reliability with Integrative Predictive Maintenance

by  Dale P. Smith, CMRP

MaintenanceElectricity, and its uninterrupted distribution through our nation, facilities and lives, is an inescapable requirement and the backbone of progress in today’s society.  The resurgence of US commerce is not possible without it.  Safe and reliable electrical distribution systems typically start out as being well engineered, with bright futures provided they receive regular, adequate maintenance and periodic testing.

Definition: Infant Mortality

Failures that occur prematurely. Such failures can occur because of inadequate design, inferior material, poor workmanship, improper installation, or quality problems in any work that was done ...

The Top 6 Benefits of Predictive Maintenance

In his book, Plant Engineer's Handbook, Keith Mobley links the following benefits to PdM:

  • Maintenance costs - down by 50%
  • Unexpected failures - reduced by 55%
  • Repair and overhaul time - down by 60%

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Inconsistent Part Numbers and Descriptions Cause Part Shortages, and Delays in Repairs

Inconsistent Part Numbers and Descriptions Cause Part Shortages, and Delays in Repairs. How do you change this outcome?

For one, be consistent on establishing part numbers, whether the computer

Invisible Defects

My tip may seem extremely mundane but think about if it applies to you.

As well as being a maintenance manager I am also a scuba diving instructor.

Whilst leading a dive with people who were here

Failed part, failure mode, failure code, failure cause

Accurate Work Order Close Out “Tool Box Training”

Accurate Work Order Close Out is important for the continuous improvement of any organization.

Look Sharp With A Sharpie

A simple tool like a sharpie can provide a lot of information. Use it to mark a date on a spare part when you receive it. That date can help with FIFO information and also show you instant

Maintenance.org Webinar: How To Edit Your Profile

Maintenance.org Webinar: How To Edit Your Profile

A 30 minute tutorial presented by Terrence O'Hanlon that explains how to use the FREE member web site to build your professional brand and your professional network.

One of the advantages of your FREE membership at the Association for Maintenance Professionals is being able to connect with people who DO WHAT YOU DO.

In other words, you can find other maintenance and reliability professionals who use the same EAM software, or the same Vibration data collector or have a job and daily challenges that are very similar to yours.

This does require that your profile be completed with as much detail as possible. The good news is that this task is easy to accomplish!

About the Association for Maintenance Professionals

The Association for Maintenance Professionals is a not for profit association dedicated to facilitating networking between maintenance and reliability professional.

The web site at http://www.maintenance.org has been called the LinkedIn or Facebook for the maintenance and reliability community without so much job Recruiting and NO commercial advertising.

Together We Can Make a Difference

Link the "PAST:"PRESENT" and FUTURE for improved Maintenance Productivity and Equipment Reliability.

1) Reflect the Past

2) Observe the Present "In Real Time"

3) Take actions immediately

4) Protect from the Real Root Causes of Equipment Down-Time and Loss of Maintenance Productivity.

Team Work and Collaboration are KEY to

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MP-2 and You (Part Two)

Another common misunderstood area of MP-2 is INSTRUCTIONS and TASKS. INSTRUCTIONS are developed for specific activities and linked together as TASKS. The INSTRUCTIONS are the necessary steps to

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Bearing Handling “Tool Box Training”

Reference: SKF Bearing Installation and Maintenance Guide

General Rules which must be followed:

"If any of these rules are not followed they will result in reduced life of a bearing resulting in

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Autonomous Maintenance Definition

A maintenance strategy wherein machine adjustments and minor maintenance is performed by operators who are deemed to have unique knowledge about the equipment. It is a principal pillar of Total

Correct Sensor Mounting for High Frequency Detection, Enveloping or Demodulation to Monitor Bearings

Many people use one of these high frequency techniques to detect and monitor bearing wear. However, the location and mounting of the accelerometer on the machine will determine the ultimate

Mounting: Your accelerometer should be stud mounted. Magnetic mounts and handheld probes should not be used. The accelerometer should be mounted on a surface that has been spot faced and tapped to accept the accelerometer stud per manufacturer instructions. When it is installed, the stud should be tight, stretching the stud to ensure proper contact and coupling across the entire face of the accelerometer. Burrs or dirt on the face or a poorly drilled and tapped hole will degrade the signal, so be sure to use the appropriate tools. If you must use a portable sensor, be sure to use one of the stud mounting systems offered by several manufacturers.

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4 Steps to Success for Maintenance Supervisors

4 Steps to Success for Maintenance Supervisors

A Webinar presentation by Ricky Smith, CMRP at GPAllied

Maintenance Supervisors are the people who make the largest impact on reliability in most organizations and thus I created this One Hour WebEx to provide ideas which will allow them to far exceed management's expectations.

Ricky will be using his past experience as a maintenance supervisor and "lessons learned" while working with hundreds of maintenance supervisors for the past 15 years to transfer his knowledge to these great maintenance leaders. Ricky sincerely wants to see maintenance supervisor become the best they can be. Maintenance Supervisors have the most difficult job in any organization and yet they can achieve a higher degree of satisfaction with their job by using a few simple tips.

Git-R-Done!

During a recent Meridium - SAP webinar titled "Optimizing SAP Maintenance Plans" produced by RealibilityWeb.com, attendees were asked: What percentage of your previous RCM/FMEA recommendations actually made it into SAP? The answers indicate reliability & maintenance professionals are still struggling to get the recommendations coming out of their RCM/FMEA studies into SAP for execution.

13% of the respondents answered that 76% - 100% of their recommendations make it into SAP
16% of the respondents answered that 51% - 75% of their recommendations make it into SAP
29% of the respondents answered that 26% - 50% of their recommendations make it into SAP
43% of the respondents answered that 0% - 25% of their recommendations make it into SAP

The science behind these

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What is the Objective of Planning and Scheduling?

That question seems simple enough, however the answer may be one of the fundamental causes for Planning and Scheduling efforts that fail to deliver their potential.

Normally, the answer to this

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