Pre-operational checklists are not “new”, “sexy” or exciting. What they are is the leading foundation of a safe, highly efficient, reliable and cost effective mining
I am asked all the time, “How many maintenance planners and supervisors do we need? It’s a great question, I”m going to use the analogy
Sometimes I think about the fact that many companies pay a lot of money for leadership and teamwork simulations…how come we sometimes have a hard time getting things done efficiently on the floor in the maintenance industry when we’re paid so well?
How often is the phrase “The ROOT Cause of the problem” used at your plant/mill? This phrase is a bit symptomatic of how Root Cause
A bearing has a random life due to a complex set of factors that determine the life of a bearing. SKF confirms that bearing life
There are many reasons why many reliability and maintenance management improvement initiatives do not generate the return of investment they can deliver. From my 58
I’ll summarize these two reasons for you and then give you more details. I’m going to tackle the first point in this article. Lack of
In Part 1 of this series on maintenance leadership, I explored two points:
During a recent reliability and maintenance conference, we met several new Reliability Engineers telling us they found their job different from what they expected it
For a competitive advantage, an organization must have a basic development for a Reliability and Maintenance Strategy. Following the best Reliability and Maintenance strategies maximizes
Root cause analysis and root cause failure analysis are commonly used terms. I have always felt that these terms are somewhat misguided. First, there is
This can be a pretty loaded beginning to a sentence. From role definitions to reliability definitions, your organization has a lot of definitions to figure
You can develop, document, and preach your improvement plans as much as you want, but if those plans do not result in better front line
An obvious resource is to use for early detection of problems is training your operator in basic inspection techniques. You may have heard of the
Is your Preventive Maintenance Program on a summer break or does your team perform the critical essential care tasks year-round? An effective Preventive Maintenance program must
Infrared (IR) thermography has become an essential tool in many Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Programs. In spite of becoming more user-friendly and affordable, there is a
In poorly performing mills it is typical that production, maintenance and engineering organizations work in silos without much cooperation. The traditional view in these mills
Most Preventive Maintenance programs (PM) were set up many years ago. Each department in a plant set up their own program in isolation from each
Picture yourself standing in front of a 2011 Chevy Silverado 1500, trying to decide if you’re going to buy it or not. You’ve been thinking
Before we discuss current maintenance management best practices, we must first discuss comparing maintenance cost with ERV You have been told you that your maintenance
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