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
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
Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what he thought of western civilization. He replied that he thought it would be a good idea. The same though
If you are a reliability professional or reliability management, you may sometimes wonder why it is so hard to improve equipment reliability. At first glance
There is a strong correlation between maintenance work carried out as an emergency job versus carried out as a planned and scheduled job. Per IDCON’s
When we work in plants and get involved in discussions of what the right inspection interval (condition monitoring) is for different equipment, we run into
When it comes to benchmarking, a popular measurement is maintenance cost (MC) as a percent of Estimated Replacement Value (ERV). The data from our SIMATM
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