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Chasing The Shiny Stuff

One of the most important and most often overlooked areas of maintenance and reliability improvement lies in the fundamentals. Many of the facilities that I visit are caught in a game of

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Reviewing Critical Spare Parts

Maintenance and reliability engineers will happily (well, not happily) undertake a review of spare parts that are not classified as critical, yet they will shy away from reviewing items that are

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Definition: Five S

A structured program to reduce waste and optimize productivity utilizing five terms beginning with "S" to create a workplace suited for visual control and lean operations:

The Five S' are:

1. Sort (Seiri) - to separate needed tools, parts, and the instructions from unneeded materials and to remove the latter.
2. (Seiton) - to neatly arrange and identify parts and tools for ease of use.3. (Seiso) - to conduct a cleanup campaign.4. (Seiketsu) - to conduct Seiri, Seiton and Seiso at daily intervals to maintain a workplace in perfect condition.5. (Shitsuke) - to form the habit of always following the first four S'.

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Welding on Equipment “Tool Box Training”

Maintenance Supervisors should use this tool to train their maintenance techs, welders and contractors - 10-20 minutes - Post them in the Maintenance Shop after use

Electric Arc caused by welding

...(Caution: follow these recommendations only if you want to stop self induced failures caused by welding)

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Work Execution Management

Check Your PM Program to Eliminate Wasted Effort

If any of your PM inspections are not identifying corrective work (check your work order history) and there is no regulatory requirement for the inspections then remove them from your PM system.

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How to Prevent Kits from Being Short after Being Completed

Kits are often assembled outside the storeroom in an unsecure area. When out in the open the temptation is to take a part that is short and use it from another Kit, thinking that this can be ...

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Develop an Early Equipment Management Program to Extend Their Lifecycle

To improve the use of capital assets and extend their life cycle, it's never too early to put together an equipment management program. Traditionally, the equipment management function is divided

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Prepare a Private Budget

The installation of any new system will affect your budgeted expenditures. You will have extra labor until people get used to the new systems and extra parts as you bring your fleet up to

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There’s No “Other” on the Restaurant Menu

I was considering the choices that groups make when setting up their CMMS/EAM systems the other day while reviewing a client's implementation and reflected on this analogy. When you go to the

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Discovering “Abnormalities” During the Cleaning - Sanitation Process

One of the Pillars of TPM is the Elimination of Minor Stoppages. These are the annoying "glitches" or "hiccups" in the routine operation of the equipment. Experienced equipment operators know how

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Scheduled Compliance is Arguably the Most Important KPI for Improving Work Management

Being successful here quickly identifies success in many other processes and KPIs. Let's be clear - 100% of available maintenance man-hours must be scheduled. Some organizations plan for

 

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Writing Work Requests/Work Orders in SAP

When failures occur, it is usually first recognized at the equipment level by operating or production units (should personnel be mentioned instead of units?). When a malfunction takes place, if

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Work Order Completion

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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1st Maintenance Priority - Understand Your Customer’s (needs)

I have spend the last 22 years in maintenance, operations and quality. When I looked back I noticed that I became a different maintenance manager after an assignment in operations. By now it is

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Remembering Measurements

I have a simple tip that always saves me time. When making measurements, place a piece of white electrical tap on the side of the tape measurer, each time you take a measurement write it down

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Nine Telling Signs to Replace Your EAM/CMMS System

  1. Your current EAM system offers limited functionality.
  2. The user interface in your current EAM system is difficult to use.
  3. External factors are rendering your EAM system obsolete.
  4. Your current EAM

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Operational Involvement

The operations or production departments must take enough ownership of their equipment that they are willing to support the maintenance department's efforts. Operational involvement, which varies

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V-Belt Maintenance “Gang Box Training”

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 straight edge or string if one expects optimal

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Eliminating Spare Parts Stock Outs

One of the main fears of most reliability and maintenance engineers is that, at the time of actual need, the required spare part will not be available. This is commonly referred to as a stock

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What Is A Stock Turn?

Because inventory requires a significant financial investment and that investment involves significant ongoing costs, it is also important to measure the financial performance. Tracking the The ...

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