Maintenance Training is most successful when followed by practical experience. This prevents money from being wasted on maintenance courses and seminars that workers quickly forget. Companies can spend thousands of dollars on maintenance training, but often, very little of the knowledge gained on maintenance and reliability training courses is ever used in the plant. In […]
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One of the reasons many reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustaining results is lack of team work between and within departments. It is still common that operations and maintenance do not work as the team they should be. The engineering department is sometimes described as “the black hole” by the maintenance staff.
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What is reliability worth in dollars to your plant? Do you know? If not, it is a good idea to figure out how much a 1% increase or decrease in reliability is worth. Here is a couple of ideas on how to do so. Reliability is most interesting to measure on current production bottlenecks. For
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RCFA is the process of investigating failure of a product, process, equipment and using the information to implement a change. It’s also commonly referred to as Root Cause Analysis or RCA. IDCON is convinced that the process of analyzing the root cause of failures and acting to eliminate these causes is one of the most
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All maintenance management processes you implement in your plant come down to a change at the frontline (hourly and first line of management) at some point. Nothing improves until your maintenance management improvement projects hit the frontline. Maintenance Management for Supervisors is a vital part of your plant reliability. For example, if you are focusing
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Digital cameras, with the addition of simple notes, are a very powerful planning tool and can save hours of work. Here are a couple of examples: Here the message to the tradesperson is clear, and it took just seconds. The text and arrows are added using the “Drawing” tool bar, in MS Word. In the
This article provides guidelines on the selection and structure of the codes and categories that CMMS Software work order systems use to filter and sort backlogs of work. When many organizations first introduced a computer software (CMMS) to manage maintenance they saw an opportunity to use the computer’s ability to sort and filter work in
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Improving an industrial preventive maintenance process can be a daunting task. Existing PM processes have often developed continuously over many years. The current preventive maintenance process may therefore be hard to organize and analyze. Where does one start to improving an existing PM process? The PM tasks are often divided by department in any given
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There is a saying: “What you can’t measure, you can’t improve”. The saying are not necessarily always true, but it is interesting, because I think a derivative of the saying is true: “What you measure, is usually what you get.” Reducing Inventory Value It is common for plants to have a lot of focus on
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Have you ever been in a situation where someone says: “we don’t have time to inspect this equipment; there are just not enough people in our plant maintenance department”, or perhaps: “Why would we start inspecting the equipment now, it’s never been done before.” You feel in your gut that the equipment should be inspected,
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