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Incorporating Reliability into Your Future
How Building Reliability Into The Equipment Design Will Dramatically Improve Your Profitability.
Often time’s equipment is procured, setup and put into operation with a single focus on reducing the initial capital expenditure. This can be a fatal mistake as the reliability of the equipment is built into the design of the equipment. This called the inherent reliability. Once the equipment is designed and installed, there is little the maintenance department can do to improve the inherent reliability.
With the inherent reliability low, the business struggles to meet its production goals, and either buys […]
Driving Performance Outcomes Through Effective Meetings
Understand How Effective Meetings Can Enable Improved Plant Performance
Nothing is worse than being in a meeting that completely wastes your time. Hopefully those meetings have been eliminated as part of the steps to making you, the maintenance professional, more effective. For the meetings that you could not eliminate, the meetings need to be effective, reducing wasted time and delivering benefits to the business.
To make meetings effective, the meetings should follow the 3 phases of effective meetings. The 3 phases ensure that meetings are effective, efficient and everyone knows what they are there […]
3 Steps to Reduce the Meetings of a Maintenance Professional
How to Reduce Meeting and Spend More Time on Driving Plant Performance
Another great method of becoming overwhelmed with work as a Maintenance Professional is to fill our day full of meetings. Worse, those meetings usually do not provide any value to you, nor do you have any inputs into the meeting.
We all know the meetings we dread going to, not because they are long, or the people in them, but because we know that it is a complete waste of time and is preventing you from accomplishing important maintenance […]
6 Steps a Maintenance Professional Can Do to Reduce Email
Eliminating the Clutter To Focus On The Important Tasks
A common complaint I hear and experience is as a maintenance professional, our inbox has exploded and grow rapidly with all the daily activities in a plant. All the emails are perceived to be important, but in reality they are mostly urgent, or not important and not urgent.
Take a moment and think about how much time you spend reviewing and answer emails. Even those emails that do not need a response, need time to review and move or delete. I am […]
Becoming More Effective With Your Day
How To Save Time As A Maintenance Professional
You are running from one meeting to another, to a breakdown, to the storeroom and at the end of the day you stop and think. What did I really get done today? The day was busy, but did you accomplish what you wanted to or will make a difference in the long run?
The organization needs to focus on effective maintenance, and as a maintenance professional you need to be effective with your time. Only if you are effective with your time, can […]
Speaking the Same Maintenance & Reliability Language
The Importance of Understanding the Terms and Definitions of the Maintenance & Reliability Language
Imagine being asked to discuss a breakdown during a production meeting. Only you are not aware of a breakdown, but production is claiming there was one and it could have been prevented by some Preventative Maintenance. You ask what equipment the breakdown was on and check the records. The records show there was a minor corrective action on the equipment last night, but not a breakdown.
After some discussion, the production manager explains that there was a […]
Reaching the Full Potential of Your CMMS
Getting Your Technicians to Use the CMMS as Part of the Daily Routine
The CMMS is often looked at as a tool for planners, engineers and managers, but that is only partially true. The CMMS is a powerful tool for the technicians as well. But getting the technicians to use the CMMS can be a difficult journey, and can blow up in your face if is it not rolled out and communicated properly. As with other best practices, having the technicians use the CMMS is not easy, but by doing […]
Leverage the Data within Your CMMS
Unlock the Potential of Your CMMS by Accessing the Data Within
If you have properly selected and implemented your CMMS, you have the ability to truly make significant improvements in your operation. This is made a reality by using the data within the CMMS to make data driven decisions instead of intuition or feelings. This ensures the business resources are spent on the most important and strategic issues for the business.
In order to leverage the data within your CMMS, you have to ensure the data can be captured and reported easily. This is […]
Plant the Seeds for Tomorrow: Implementing a CMMS
Most CMMS’ Fail at the Implementation Phase, Don’t Let This Be You
Most organizations only use 50% of their CMMS’s capabilities. This is for a variety of reasons, but one of the largest reasons, is that the CMMS was not setup, configured or implemented correctly. If the implementation of the CMMS was not done properly, the usability and information in the CMMS limits its potential.
How can you prevent the implementation from failing or delivering sub-par results? There are a few ways to ensure a successful CMMS implementation. This post will cover […]
The Right Way to Select the Right CMMS
Selecting the Right CMMS can mean the Difference between Success and Failure
Imagine spending $100,000s or $1,000,000s on a software package that is supposed to improve your maintenance operation. A few years later you still have not seen any improvement and you did not generate any return on investment with the software. This happens every day when businesses select the wrong the CMMS.
Selecting a CMMS can be an overwhelming task, especially when so much rides upon the success of CMMS. You can read reviews and select a CMMS based […]