Organizing a Maintenance Department Are you trying to figure your role in your company or attempting to improve the effectiveness of your organization? Or maybe you need to improve the job descriptions (or maybe you want to prove to your boss you’re working on the wrong tasks.) Key Roles and Responsibilities Let’s look at the …
What is Autonomous Maintenance? The term Autonomous Maintenance is most known as one of the eight pillars in TPM – Total Productive Maintenance. The main idea in Autonomous Maintenance is that operators are responsible for performing minor maintenance tasks. You may also have heard of terms such as Operator Essential Care, Operator Based Maintenance, Operator …
Preventive Maintenance examples of why you can’t just document a PM program, you have to execute the program. Is it just me who thinks that improvement projects have gotten more complicated than necessary? I mean to a point where implementation becomes impossible, projects fizzle out completely, sometimes after thousands of work hours have been put …
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Part III of our Root Cause Analysis series “Common RCFA Mistakes” Techniques for root cause analysis include avoiding common mistakes. In Parts I and II of this series , we covered the problem statement and common mistakes when writing a problem statement. In Part III, we’re going to talk about saving parts and organizing information. …
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We cover a lot of ground in this article. Below is the table of contents to help you navigate. What is maintenance planning and scheduling? 1 The definition of daily and weekly planning and scheduling 2 What is Shutdown planning and scheduling? 2 What is the difference between maintenance planning and scheduling? 2 Detailed definition …
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RCFA problem statements are key to solving the right problem at your plant but sometimes the problem statement that we write down isn’t a fact. We pick something that’s not quite true. It’s a little bit off, and that makes our root cause very long. Sometimes we miss the root cause altogether because it’s wrong. …
How to reduce maintenance cost the right way comes up a lot for our clients. Unfortunately, many organizations often have the goal of reducing maintenance cost. While the maintenance cost is an important long-term outcome of maintenance management, it should not be the main goal. If the reduction of maintenance cost is the main goal …
A maintenance management expert is one option when you decide to perform a reliability and maintenance assessment of your maintenance organization. In this video and article, Torbjorn Idhammar is going to detail the pros of hiring an objective expert to conduct your maintenance assessment. Watch video 1 of this 2-part series Imagine you are walking …
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It is easy to make mistakes when performing a Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) – we have all done it. Common RCFA mistakes includes overwriting the problem statement. An essay is not the way. We tend to want to write everything that happened and everything we know. This makes it very confusing for the people …
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Continuous improvement is hard to get to if you don’t know where to start. Gathering the right data about your maintenance team Imagine you are walking the floor of your plant, gathering information for a maintenance assessment. You ask the front line, “Hey, are jobs being planned before scheduling?” The answer will most likely be …
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Leading maintenance in a plant/mine/mill takes a lot of effort. Emergency work comes in a steady stream, some are breakdowns, other work is just “honey-do-jobs.” The workforce needs to be managed, the budget must be met, and equipment reliability must be maintained and hopefully even improved…
If your organization wants to achieve world class maintenance, one good tool to use is regular Maintenance Assessments. They will help you decide what improvements need to be made and develop an action plan to implement and track those improvements over time. Why do a Maintenance Assessment? It is important to perform these assessments not …
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Should Every Organization have a Maintenance Supervisor? We like to say that a good Maintenance Supervisor will work themselves out of their own job. The idea is to have the crew trained so well that they can really make it on their own, but, turnover happens, new people come in, and the Supervisor needs to …
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To put it simply, the main responsibility of a Maintenance Supervisor is to ensure that maintenance work is executed. But what are the essential skill set required of this position? What is their role in work execution, reliability and maintenance and maintenance planning and scheduling? To perform this job well, a good Maintenance Supervisor must …
Operations needs to be involved in root cause investigations Operations and root cause investigations should go hand-in-hand. This is In part 2 of this video series, Tor Idhammar and Owe Forsberg discuss a very important part of the partnership that may be missing in your plant business process – Root Cause Problem Elimination or root …
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Having business process workflows improves cooperation, morale and cohesion in an organization.
What’s my job? a Maintenance Manager’s job is much more than you think. If you are a new Maintenance Manager, want to become one, or maybe you are an experienced Maintenance Manager who needs to refresh your skills, this is the video series you are going to want to bookmark! Watch Part 1 and Part …
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Improving work management is key to overall reliability But it’s difficult to improve because ultimately it’s about changing behavior in the workplace. 90% about making improvement to your reliability and maintenance management processes is the people in the organization. If they are resistant to changing behavior then you cannot gain the big rewards of improved …
What is an Operations Maintenance Coordinator? An Operations Maintenance Coordinator job can be defined as “a person who is responsible for the coordination of operations and maintenance activities or the one point of contact between operations and maintenance. In this YouTube Video, Tor Idhammar and Owe Forsberg discuss why this role is smart to have …
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Maintenance Manager’s key roles to success are revealed in the second video of this three video series. Watch Part 1 and Part 3 Poor leadership is a morale and reliability & maintenance management killer and we need our maintenance managers to be effective. What are the skills and tasks that maintenance managers need to have/do …
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