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 operations output and minimizes cost per unit.
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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 maintenance performance, you have just wasted money and time. The front line of maintenance includes supervisors, planners, craftspeople and operations; all others in the maintenance organization exist to support the
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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 terms TPM or Autonomous Maintenance, in reality it’s all about engaging your operators in caring and inspecting equipment. Who can better detect problems? They should be in tune with subtle
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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 be executed consistently regardless of the season!
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 is that the maintenance organization delivers service to its customer which is the production organization and the engineering organization is called “the black hole” where requests for drawing and other
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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 about getting a ”new” truck for a few months now. But it’s always risky buying a used vehicle and you really want to have a ”truck” guy with you to
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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 cost as a percent of estimated replacement value (ERV) is 4.6% and that this is too high. Best performers, you are told, should have maintenance cost lower than 3% of
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Part of your work management after a plant shutdown is to do a team evaluation so you can improve your plant shutdown turnaround maintenance process. A closeout review or critique meeting gathers all the information from the last event so you can prepare for the next event. It is the ammunition your organization can use
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Excellent leadership maintenance management is essential for lasting results of any improvement initiative that an organization undertakes, including the improvement of Reliability and Maintenance performance.
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A potential client asked if IDCON could do a productivity study of the hourly maintenance staff. My initial reaction was “WHY?” and I am sure my facial expression was probably one of disbelief. But quickly, my manners and professionalism caught up with me and I posed the same question again, this time with a more
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