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Unlock the Efficiency of Your Planner with a Single Step: BOMs

How Bill of Materials (BOMs) Can Exponentially Increase the Efficiency of Your Maintenance Planner

31. BOMs - Siemens PLMImagine a world where the Maintenance Planner can quickly and easier find all the material information for each job. Even those that do not yet have a job plan. Dreams or reality? Reality. This reality is found within operations all over the world and you can have it too. How can you achieve a level of efficiency with your Planner and have all materials information readily available? With Bills of Material.

A Bill of Material or […]

By |2018-01-24T05:05:26-05:00October 12th, 2015|Spare Parts Management, Uncategorized, Work Management, Work Planning|Comments Off on Unlock the Efficiency of Your Planner with a Single Step: BOMs
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5 Reasons Why You Need to Be Using Procedure Based Maintenance

Using Procedure Based Maintenance to Improve the Performance of Your Operation

30. Procedures - Jeffery WongImagine an operation in which there are no lost time accidents, OEE is increasing and there is a plan to address the skills shortage. These sites do exist and chances are they using procedure based maintenance. Procedure Based Maintenance is simply having all maintenance activities documented in a procedure. The procedures are followed step by step when conducting breakdown, corrective and preventative maintenance.

Benefits of Procedure Based Maintenance

Procedure Based Maintenance reduces the variation that occurs […]

By |2018-01-24T04:54:10-05:00October 5th, 2015|Advanced Work Planning, Knowledge Management, Standard Work, Work Management|Comments Off on 5 Reasons Why You Need to Be Using Procedure Based Maintenance
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Fast Track RCM: Improving Plant Performance & Profitability

A Proven Framework to Improve Performance and Build Ownership of the Equipment

Fast Track Fast Track RCM

Understanding the how equipment failures along with utilizing a proven and effective approach to developing an equipment strategy is a winning combination for manufacturers everywhere.  When combing the knowledge and the system, manufacturers can yield significant improvements in their operation, such as a reduction in PM workload of 22% with gain 4% in line efficiencies.  Or how about a reduction of 42% of PMs, without a single loss in equipment availability.  It is […]

By |2018-01-24T04:47:41-05:00September 28th, 2015|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance|Comments Off on Fast Track RCM: Improving Plant Performance & Profitability
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How Equipment Fails, Understanding the 6 Failure Patterns

Knowing How Equipment Fails Allows Effective Plans to Be Put In Place and Improve Equipment Reliability

Identifying How Equipment Fails

Steve Jurvetson Steve Jurvetson

In the 1960s the failure rate of jet aircraft was high even with the extensive maintenance programs that were put in place to prevent the failures.  The programs required overhauls, rebuilds and detailed inspections which required the various components to be disassembled.  All of these activities were based on an estimated save life of the equipment.

Under the guidance of the FAA, extensive engineering studies were conducted on […]

By |2018-01-24T04:16:35-05:00September 21st, 2015|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance|8 Comments
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3 Ways to Improve Profitability with a Criticality Analysis

Making the Criticality Analysis Work for You and Drive Improvements in the Maintenance Strategy

Payton ChungMost manufacturers do not have an up to date criticality analysis and those that do have one, do not use it to drive decisions.  Having a criticality analysis facilitates improved decision making and prioritization within the site and business.   How many times are there debates regarding which work needs to be done, which PMs will be dropped from the schedule because the planned downtime was reduced?  These debates occur regularly, but to not have to occur.  A […]

By |2018-01-24T04:03:44-05:00September 14th, 2015|Asset Criticality, Equipment Strategy|2 Comments
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