Improving work management is key to overall reliability But it’s difficult to improve because ultimately it’s about changing behavior in the workplace. 90% about making improvement to your reliability and maintenance management processes is the people in the organization. If they are resistant to changing behavior then you cannot gain the big rewards of improved […]
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Maintenance Manager’s key roles to success are revealed in the second video of this three video series. Watch Part 1 and Part 3 Poor leadership is a morale and reliability & maintenance management killer and we need our maintenance managers to be effective. What are the skills and tasks that maintenance managers need to have/do
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Why do you need to know how to estimate maintenance work orders? There are key reasons why estimating work orders is important to the effective management of maintenance. What costs should be included when estimating work orders? What are the steps to estimating? The 1st pass on estimating is a rough order magnitude estimate of
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What’s Best for Communicating a Weekly Schedule for Maintenance Work? When you put a lot of effort into a good weekly schedule for your weekly maintenance work, but people still do not know when to do the work, it’s easy to get frustrated. This video will give you some quick best practices to help you
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Work Management Online Training training in the best practices of planning and scheduling CONTACT US Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Online Training When it comes to work management processes, you know it’s more than just making a list and getting work done.But it’s hard to get everyone in your organization in sync. And because of that,
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Imagine you are the Engineering and Maintenance Manager at a new manufacturing facility. The Plant is a major greenfield site with a CapEx budget over $1 Billion and they’ve already broken ground. During the construction and commissioning you and your team are expected to be part of the startup testing, help manage contractors, review final
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Many Reliability and Maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustainable (and continuously improving) results in improved safety, manufacturing throughput, and costs. There are many reasons for this, but the lack of engaged, visible, and caring plant leadership is the most common of them. Doing regular Gemba walks, which takes management to the front lines to
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Are you finding it difficult to manage your maintenance and reliability resources? Do you feel like you cannot catch up on the work order backlog? Backlog Management is the main objective in managing maintenance in a plant or facility. The key results of backlog management are completing work in a timely manner and managing the
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We asked members of the operations team in process manufacturing: What is the strategic role of the Reliability Engineer (RE)? The answers vary from a good understanding of the strategic impact of a reliability engineer to more simple responses like “fix the equipment”, “keep us running”, and “respond to emergencies”. These responses indicate that the
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What happens when Maintenance is required to report to Operations? This usually happens when organizations go from a centralized to decentralized maintenance. While many tout the benefits of this organizational structure, the real reason for the change is to reduce cost by removing maintenance managers. The fundamental problem is that asking the operations manager(s) with
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