A very important part of a cost-effective preventive maintenance program is what I call the route-based activity. These are activities that are easiest to do, and to administer, if they are presented in a list. This list can be presented in electronic format or in a paper format and includes such activities as lubrication and […]
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Potlatch Cloquet’s low-cost maintenance shutdown management techniques focusing on type, quality, and timing of work contribute to an 83% drop in maintenance cost per ton. Effective shutdown management is critical to the operation of mills, for without well-planned and executed shutdowns, equipment reliability suffers, and the mill pays the price in poor quality and lost
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Most maintenance organizations do not really know how good – or bad – they are. It is more a feeling of “we are doing pretty good here”. Maintenance costs are still the prevalent measurement and it is commonly believed to be too high. It is therefore the subject of being cut in every new budget.
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Implementing predictive maintenance practices can be complicated. Are you experiencing unnecessary equipment repairs that are avoidable and reactive in nature and do you have recurring equipment component failures, such as seals, bearings, and gaskets that are preventable? Do you have failures that make it hard for you to explain your plant’s maintenance expenses (e.g. rotating
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An organization must focus on sustainable results, not just cutting maintenance costs. Results-oriented organizations focus first on the quality and volume of production throughout, followed closely by the cost to produce the required quality and volume. This approach will improve reliability performance, which will drive manufacturing costs down. Three case studies illustrate how improved reliability
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Focus on activities that drive cost, not cost alone. In 1980 I conducted the first seminars titled “Reliability, the future competitiveness factor”. Looking back I realize how true the title of these seminars was. Anyone with financial assets can buy the same equipment and processes. With the same, or older, manufacturing equipment and processes the
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Life Cycle Cost is important, but we must understand before we can evaluate. Many reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives are successful, but most do not deliver the results that are possible to reach. I have observed that the rate of success is higher in many other countries than USA. Some common denominators I have observed
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An effective root cause analysis process can improve production reliability significantly. But, few organizations have a functioning root cause analysis process in place. This article will discuss common problems and some suggested solutions in order to improve root cause problem elimination. Don’t just analyze – implement the solutions The business process is most commonly named
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The cost of maintaining the status quo is enormous. The status quo affects each and every one of us every hour of every day, at work and at home. We have come to accept doing nothing as a safe and acceptable alternative. We even make it the default solution. Doing nothing is the management equivalent
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One universal measurement of maintenance performance, and perhaps the measure that matters most in the end, is actually maintenance costs. Unfortunately, maintenance costs are often used to compare maintenance performance between companies or even between plants within the same company. One other problem is that there is typially no standard for measuring maintenance costs. Different
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