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What Is A Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?

Identifying the Right KPI for Your Business is Critical to Managing the Performance of the Business (Part 1)

KPIs“What gets measured, gets done” and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are critical to measuring the performance of the organization and business. So what specifically is a KPI? According to the Professionals Guide to Maintenance & Reliability Terminology, a KPI is a vital indicator which is used to evaluate process performance. KPIs are used to represents a measure (or set of metrics) focusing on those aspects of organizational performance that are the most critical for […]

By |2018-01-24T00:27:07-05:00August 3rd, 2015|Identification of Business Needs', Key Performance Indicators, Performance Management, Process Metrics|Comments Off on What Is A Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?
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Quantify Your Improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

20. MoneyBeing able to communicate the improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling with finance and senior leaders can be difficult.   The maintenance team sees a high PM Compliance, or more work being complete, but what does that mean for the business in tangible benefits? This is where the communication between maintenance and finance breakdown.   By being able to identify and link the maintenance improvements to financial returns, maintenance will be able to generate support for current and future projects.

I remember trying to communicate with a finance person on how a CMMS […]

By |2018-01-24T00:13:29-05:00July 27th, 2015|Work Management|Comments Off on Quantify Your Improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
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The Top 5 Tips to Implementing a Successful Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Process

Use these tips to overcome barriers and create a successful maintenance planning & scheduling process

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Implementing a Maintenance Planning & Scheduling process can be trying, difficult and downright frustrating. How would you like to dramatically reduce the stress involved and see results quicker? By utilizing these 5 tips, you will be able to build a robust, highly efficient and effective process with reduced effort.

These 5 tips are time tested, and have been used to […]

By |2018-01-23T23:52:53-05:00July 20th, 2015|Work Management|2 Comments
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See How Easily You Can Plan a Successful Shutdown

Using the Critical Path to Guarantee a Successful Shutdown

18. Critical Path to Shutdown Success

Shutdown, Turnaround, Outage are all the same thing. An extended planned downtime event, in which a tremendous amount of resources are utilized to ensure the site will be able to achieve its business goals. Whether the shutdown involves overhauls, CAPEX or a combination, the successful completion of the shutdown depends heavily on the planning and execution of it.

Shutdowns are resource intensive and often under compressed timelines. This unique situation requires a different approach to […]

By |2018-01-23T23:39:33-05:00July 13th, 2015|Shutdown, Turnaround, Outage, Work Management|2 Comments
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Work Order Closeout

How Capturing the Right Information Will Improve Your Job Plans, Increase Reliability and Improve Your Profitability.

17. Work Order Closeout

 

One of the most important, but often the least effective parts of the Maintenance Planning & Scheduling process, is the work order close out step. Here critical data is supposed to be captured and used to improve the job plan, identify future work and improve reliability. All of these add up to improve the profitability of the organization.

So why do so many organization fail to capture the data required? […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00July 6th, 2015|Work Management, Work Planning|Comments Off on What Everybody Ought to Know About Work Order Closeout
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