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Pfizer Pushes the MRO Reliability Envelope

Pfizer Pushes the MRO Reliability Envelope

An hour long web workshop on demand presented by Jim Clifford - Manager, Data Management Group, Maximo System Owner - Pfizer

Pfizer pushes the MRO Reliability envelope. Lower MRO inventory and improve MRO availability at the same time? You bet. Discover the 5 steps Pfizer took to ensure that their MRO optimization program saved money and improved MRO fill rates.

Key Performance Indicators for MRO and the Storeroom

Key Performance Indicators for MRO and the Storeroom

A 30 minute long Webinar Tutorial On Demand Led by Daniel DeWald, CPIM, CPMM SME Materials Management Professional Consultant, GPAllied

Key Performance Indicators are used to measure and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly activities in MRO and Stores. Management uses it as a tool to analyze past performance, and make decisions as they move forward. KPI's are an objective measurement, and a key activity for the maintenance manager to oversee.

Eliminating the Sources of Poor Reliability: Defects

Eliminating the Sources of Poor Reliability: Defects

By Winston Ledet

The basis for our approach originated in DuPont in the late 1980s.

The MRO Connection to Reliability

The MRO Connection to Reliability

An 80 minute On Demand Webinar Workshop by Rich MacInnes, Principal, Net Results Group, LLC and Bob Wilson, Senior Director - Client Assessments, PCA

The MRO Connection to Reliability is clear... spare parts at the ready to ensure equipment availability the first time, every time. Learn five key insights unique to MRO materials-guaranteed to advance every reliability program while improving investment in maintenance labor and materials. Gain these insights from recognized experts of The MRO Connection, which delivers proven solutions in the uniquely challenging space known as MRO.

Learning point takeaways:

1) Five key MRO insights that advance reliability practices while improving investment in maintenance labor and materials

2) Technology solutions unique to the challenges of MRO

3) Performing MRO capabilities health check-vital first step

 

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Critical Success Factors for MRO and the Storeroom

Critical Success Factors for MRO and the Storeroom

Presented by Daniel DeWald, CPIM, CPMM SME Materials Management Professional Consultant, GPAllied

Critical success factors (CSF) are an essential part of the storeroom and MRO. They need to be identified and reviewed to insure success. They are not a key performance indicator, but instead are elements vital to strategize policies and management to be a winning sector of the overall maintenance direction.

 

How to Easily Use SAP Notifications to Document Crucial Failure Related Information

SAP in its standard configuration doesn't provide a place to capture two specific types of crucial failure related reliability information - the Failure Mode and Detection Method. However, there

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Work Order Completion Maintenance Tip

When is a work order truly complete? There's more to work order completion than simply performing the actual maintenance tasks and changing the WO status to "Complete" within the CMMS/SAP.

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Which Way Do I Go?

When preparing to visit a new client site recently, I had to program my GPS with the address to find the facility. In establishing the address, it stepped me through entering the state, city, and

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Maintenance and Operations Partnership

A great reliability program is backed by a partnership between maintenance, operations and other departments within an organization. It is built with technology and tools that facilitate and

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Practical Operator Care Process Implementation

Practical Operator Care Process Implementation

An hour long Webinar Tutorial On Demand Led by Mike Gehloff - Strategic Account Director - GPAllied

This workshop will introduce the typical elements of an operator care program, but more importantly, present tangible ideas and tips that will be helpful for those attempting to implement such a process.

Concepts such as up front developing ownership and engagement, messaging, and overcoming obstacles will be presented alongside tactical issues such as qualitative inspections, visual management, and abnormality identification.

The participants in this session will be left with more than just good ideas, but also a set of tools that can be used to aid in their own process implementation efforts.

Material Planning Improves Maintenance Efficiency

One of the biggest contributors to maintenance efficiency and effective use of craft time is getting the correct parts and materials to the work site at the same time as the craft person. In

Take Care of Those Parts!

When it comes to inventory availability, it's important to have the right parts in like-new condition to best support maintenance operations. The standard used by many is the same method that the


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Work Order Priority Checklist

Work order priorities are commonly misused. In order have a fighting chance, compare your priority criteria to the following elements:

1. Simple and concise
2. Documents expected timeframe to completion
3. Considers all consequences:quality, cost, safety,throughput & environmental
4. Takes likelihood into account
5. Formerly documented
6. Clearly communicated
7. Talked about often (part of our common language)

If your criteria does not match up to

Active Communication of the Work Schedule

Many people think that the printing of the work schedule and displaying it in the work area is an effective communication method (this is not entirely true). It is better to put away the scotch

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What’s your dominant strategy?

For many organizations, it is run-to-failure (RTF) although they don't recognize it as such.  While some groups have no real proactive maintenance practices, others have invested in and continue

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Kitting best practices in the support of maintenance

Kitting best practices in the support of maintenance

An 45-minute long Webinar On Demand Led by Daniel DeWald, CPIM, CPMM SME Materials Management Professional Consultant, GP Allied

Discussed are Kitting best practices in the support of maintenance. There are four stages of Kitting -Pre-Kitting, Filling the Kit, Completion of the Kit, and Delivery. Each stage is unique when it is applied as a support to maintenance. Kitting is a coordinated effort between the planner, the storeroom, and maintenance.

Benefits that are expected when Kitting is fully implemented are-(1) Eliminates the craftsman searching for parts; (2) Improved communication between the planner, storeroom, and the craftsman; and (3) Deliveries to the job site decreases equipment downtime, and improves craftsman's productivity.

Participate to learn:

1) Kits require a secure area to stage and pick parts

2) Kits are to have all the parts filled before it is delivered.

3) Kits are delivered to the job site

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...