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
The Bill of Materials is a complete and accurate list of parts for each asset. Having correct BOMs is a key element of the technical database.
What is Autonomous Maintenance? The term Autonomous Maintenance is most known as one of the eight pillars in TPM – Total Productive Maintenance. The main
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
If you don’t know by now, the maintenance planning and scheduling process is integral to reliability in industrial and facilities management. Over my 30 years
There’s a certain category of maintenance jobs known as “small jobs” which meet four criteria. This type of job is managed instead of planned and as such they do not need to go through the formal planning process.
Shutdown/Turnarounds aren’t managed well. Late start-ups make it impossible to complete work on time. Different departments having disparate objectives makes it impossible to work as a team.
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
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?
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.
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
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
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 chain of effective maintenance management is key to improving your This video is from Christer Idhammar’s Keynote presentation at Mainstream Conference in 2021. He
Owe Forsberg introduces you to Risk Based Work Selection for shutdown or turnarounds in part 2 of this six part video series. This shutdown technique
What is meant by Reliability Centered Maintenance? What is meant by Reliability Centered Maintenance? Reliability Centered Maintenance or RCM an in-depth asset analysis tool used
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
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
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
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