Test your knowledge of maintenance methods. How is a cost effective maintenance process established to so that the process generates more money than it costs? The answer is to choose the most cost effective maintenance method for all components. There are maintenance methods for existing components: If you don’t know these concepts, you should purchase […]
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Any plant maintenance department wants to be known as a cost effective organization. For the purposes of this article, “Cost Effective” will be defined as: “Maintenance without waste, where waste is defined as the gap between how good the organization is and how good it can become”. The waste includes poor safety, losses in quality
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One of the most common questions I am asked, especially from those that are new to maintenance, is, ”How do I know that we are right-sized within our maintenance organization?”
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What guidelines would you give for the frequency of preventive maintenance inspections? This is a question I often get so I like to offer some guidelines from the real world. The short answer to this question is that you have to use your experience and common sense supported by a logic decision structure. For you
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Manufacturing facilities know downtime is money. Every hour you are offline for a shutdown (SD) is costly from both lost revenue and cost of the workforce employed to maintain the facility. That’s why you must optimize shutdown programs.
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Does rapid change of maintenance performance exist? If change is equivalent to sustainable improvements the answer to this question is “No”. My experience has shown that 90% of improvement of maintenance performance is about people and 10% is about technology and processes.
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Jag har skrivit mycket om att arbeta i ett partnerskap i stället för att arbeta i ett kund och leverantörförhållande mellan drift och underhåll. Jag får många frågor och kommentarer som resultat av tidigare krönikor som beskrivit ovanstående.
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Every plant or facility desires to have a documented PM program in place- one that is followed with discipline. Doing so provides the lowest overall maintenance and operating cost over time. Immediate benefits are:
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One of the exercises in IDCON’s Work Management Planning and Scheduling Training is to assign the right priority for jobs. Setting priorities for work requests is an important aspect of the Work Management process. When you have priorities defined and FOLLOWED you know that break-in and unplanned work is going to be minimized. Let’s see
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A successful partnership between operations and maintenance is rooted in unified work processes. IDCON defines work processes as something documented, executed and followed up on. Priorities are a cornerstone in a well-functioning partnership. I recently visited a paper mill in Chicago to survey their work processes. In analyzing their work orders, I found that for
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