One of the reasons many reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustaining results is lack of teamwork between and within departments. It is
I was asked a question recently about the level of spare parts inventory that should be carried as a percent of the Asset Replacement Value
“People are our most valuable resource” is most probably the correct political statement to make, but is this true? I do not think it is
Lean manufacturing including lean maintenance has long been a concept both in the United States and in Europe.
Since 1972 I have been bench marking maintenance organizations all over the world. In 1992 IDCON structured a very formal way to do evaluations and
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
Developing and Retaining Future Craft Skills is often mentioned that this is a future crisis; my observations tell me that the crisis is here now
As an option to reduce plant costs, you may be wondering whether you should contract your maintenance work. This may have some merit, depending on
The Productivity Simulation Make One Team Out of Operations and Maintenance The Productivity Simulation is a tool for building the partnership between operations, maintenance and
Professional Connections A collection of companies and organizations helpful for reliability and maintenance management. RISI is the best positioned and most authoritative global source of forest
Maintenance Dictionary Maintenance: the act of maintaining, the state of being maintained, care or upkeep of machinery, the process of maintaining or preserving someone or
First I like to tell you about myself and from what perspective I write this article. My world is process industries such as Iron, Steel,
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
Do you know what reliability is worth in your plant? If not, it is a good idea to figure out how much a 1% increase
I recently visited a couple of plants where I asked the same question to all people I met. The question was “What are the most
Sustainable improvements to the maintenance function can be achieved the same way as any other successful change in an organization. For change to be successful,
Perhaps you, or one of your management team, feel that a better way of setting maintenance work priorities is needed. This usually happens because it
It is often said that “what gets measured gets done”. And getting things done, through people, is what management is all about. Measuring things that
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
Preventive maintenance is generally considered to include both condition-monitoring and life-extending tasks which are scheduled at regular intervals. Some tasks, such as temperature and vibration
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