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Guarantee Your Performance with Basic Care
Ensuring Your Equipment Is Maintained to a Basic Level of Care
When you hear the term basic care, what comes to mind?
I remember hearing a story of a brand new packaging line that was installed. It operated at high OEE, delivering significant improvements over the old line. Within 6 weeks, the line was running worse than the original one. Finger pointing ensued, the OEM saying it was how it was maintained. With the manufacturer saying it was a poor design.
A few weeks later, a prominent government official was scheduled to visit […]
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
Imagine 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 […]
5 Reasons Why You Need to Be Using Procedure Based Maintenance
Using Procedure Based Maintenance to Improve the Performance of Your Operation
Imagine 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 […]
Fast Track RCM: Improving Plant Performance & Profitability
A Proven Framework to Improve Performance and Build Ownership of the Equipment
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 […]
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
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 […]
3 Ways to Improve Profitability with a Criticality Analysis
Making the Criticality Analysis Work for You and Drive Improvements in the Maintenance Strategy
Most 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 […]
What is a Criticality Analysis? How does it Work?
Understanding The Risks Allow Effective Mitigation Plans To Be Put In Place
Where is your biggest risk to the site? If you can’t answer that, than your maintenance program is most likely not adequate. As previously discussed, an effective maintenance program must align with business and its needs. A criticality analysis allows the site to understand where there are risks that must be managed.
A criticality analysis is a systematic approach to evaluating potential risks, therefore consequences that can impact the business. The criticality analysis has defined criteria that outlines the potential consequences so that they can be evaluated, categorised and prioritised. […]
Is Your Maintenance Program Aligned With The Business?
Providing the right level of service to production will ensure the profitability of the business.
Using a Business Needs Analysis will ensure that your maintenance program is on the same page as the goals of the business. Often times the two are not aligned, which leads to excess costs for the business, reducing the ability to be profitable. For example, does your operation require 99.9% reliability? It would be nice but that level of reliability is extremely difficult & costly to achieve. Think of the various industries that require that […]
A Smarter Way of Preventative Maintenance
4 Simple Steps to Improving Profitability through Smart PMs
How did the PM routines come to be in your business? PM routines are often the result of a failure and the maintenance department being told to implement a PM to prevent it from happening again. The PM is hastily put in place without much detail or thought. Fast forward a little ways in time and soon you have a monster of PM program, in which you struggle to execute on time. Overtime increases to complete all of the PMs, yet […]
Are You Driving The Wrong Behaviours?
Use a Balanced Scorecard to Ensure the Right Behaviours are Embedded in Your Organization
This post is the third of a miniseries on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). If you haven’t already, please go back and read the first post on what is a KPI and the second post on leading Vs Lagging KPIs.
As already discussed, KPIs can be a great tool to measure progress, predict future performance and hold personnel and teams accountable. In order to use KPIs to accomplish these objectives, the KPIs need to be aligned with […]