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Locking in Day-to-Day Defect Elimination

If your maintenance department spends more time fixing breakdowns than discovering and eliminating the causes of faults, you know you're on shaky ground. You wonder: how do others manage to

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MP-2 and You

One of the more common utilized and misunderstood Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) is MP-2. This system is relatively easy to use provided there is a fundamental understanding

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Combating Reactive Maintenance

It is difficult to move a maintenance system that is reactive in nature to be proactive. The difference in business impact of reactive and proactive maintenance can often be measured in ...

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Hard To Reach Fastening Tip

When needing to hold a small screw or bolt to a driver, a small dab of high viscous grease can do the trick to hold it to the screwdriver or in the socket driver and allow you to reach it back

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Work Order Technical Reports

No one likes to write reports. This includes your craftsmen. However, documenting the work performed, parts found broken, parts installed, and what root problems were observed can be invaluable

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Defining Failures and Being Consistent

To identify when maintenance is required, we need to define failure. The traditional view was that as equipment gets older, it is more likely to fail. The old definition of failure is when the

How to create Planning Libraries with Reusable Documents
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How to create Planning Libraries with Reusable Documents

A 7 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM, People and Processes, Inc.

Take your planning process and craft efficiencies to the next level by creating reusable Planning Libraries with externally linked documents. This presentation is a how-to to show you the benefits and methods for building these libraries with externally linked documents common to most CMMS/ EAM applications, along with a continuous improvement process to integrate the feedback from craftspeople into those documents.

SMRP Maintenance and Reliability Benchmarking Overview
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SMRP Maintenance and Reliability Benchmarking Overview

A 52 Minute Recorded Webinar

The Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) has launched one of the most important maintenance and reliability benchmarking studies ever conducted.

Please view the recorded webinar to learn more about the SMRP Benchmarking Study

The confidential SMRP benchmarking study is designed to answer questions like:

* Where are the gaps in your company's maintenance efficiency and performance?

* Which maintenance and reliability improvements would result in a swift increase to your bottom line?

* Compared to the competition, does your organization fall behind in some areas, yet excel in others?

* What are the characteristics of companies with leading maintenance and reliability performance? 

Find out more about the SMRP Benchmarking project here

 

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Drinking Milk Past the Expiration Date…

Could you imagine drinking milk weeks or months after the expiration date? We all look at the expiration dates when we purchase products for consumption. It's just the healthy thing to do. Why ...

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SMRP Maintenance and Reliability Benchmarking Overview

The Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) has launched one of the most important maintenance and reliability benchmarking studies ever conducted.

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Making Ice Cream More Reliably - Wells Dairy - In the Midst of the Journey

Going from vision to reality in a reliability journey - and how the process grows and changes as the culture transforms from the complacency of run to failure, to the accountability of continuous improvement - is an experience that anyone in the maintenance and reliability profession should get excited about. In this article, we will take a look at a reliability centered effort still in the midst of this journey.

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Energy Management Planning Tips

. Include in the energy management plan a component clearly defining energy-efficient operation of energy consuming equipment. An example of a definition is: Operate energy consuming equipment to

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Beware of Minimum Load Specifications in Spherical Roller Bearings

In my experiences as both a Bearing Applications Engineer and Reliability Engineer there seems to be a common problem with double row "spherical roller bearings" (SRB) operating well below their

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Maintenance Program Roadmap

What really is a roadmap? And do you have one? Or, are you simply throwing darts at a dart board?

A long term strategy for maintenance asset/facility performance and work force efficiency.

A map

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Maintenance Tips for Mechanical Seal Installation

- Lock the Mechanical Seal locking collar screws after completing the shaft axial displacement adjustments, shaft alignment procedure. It helps to keep the seal faces from getting damaged.

- Keep

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The No. 1 PM Law You Should Know

The number one law of economics you need to know is based on a principle discovered over 200 years ago. You've probably heard of it - it's called the Law of Diminishing Returns.

As any good MBA

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Pruning Your MRO Inventory
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Pruning Your MRO Inventory

A 15 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Doug Wallace, CPIM, Life Cycle Engineering

Many MRO storerooms are wrestling with the challenge of optimizing their inventory. But what is the "right" level of inventory to keep? This presentation addresses some of the fundamental considerations involved in making these difficult decisions, and suggests one method for helping to determine the appropriate stocking levels for your own materials.

 

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Is it EAM - Enterprise Asset Management or MAS - Maintenance Accounting System

From what we see - there is very little managing of enterprise level assets in most EAM systems and a great deal of maintenance accounting.

Examples of Maintenance Accounting include:

  • Labor hours

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Portable Filtration Units

Portable filtration units can be very helpful in providing periodic cleaning and flushing of sumps and reservoirs. In many cases, they can be fitted with water removal elements for convenient

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The Eight Critical Elements of Asset Management. An in Depth Industry Based Survey

OneSteel is a fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of steel and finished steel products, self-sufficient in both iron ore and scrap metal. They have major manufacturing facilities across Australia as well as facilities in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific and the USA, and they manufacture and distributes products that are used in the construction, manufacturing, housing, rail, mining and agricultural industries. With a significantly diversified range of assets in many locations, improvements in Asset Management had been based on the knowledge and drive of the local plant employees and this was acknowledged as a significant issue for the company.

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