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The Secret Weapon: Job Kitting
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The Secret Weapon: Job Kitting

Basic Spare Parts Management, Roles & Responsibilities, Spare Parts Management, Standard Work, Teamwork, Work Management, Work Planning

The Secret Weapon: Job Kitting

How to Improve Your Storeroom and Technician Efficiency With Job Kitting

Job kitting is a tremendously powerful tool for organizations to improve their efficiency. The efficiency gains come from a reduction in the amount of time the technicians spend waiting at the storeroom, looking for parts and travel time resulting from multiple trips to the storeroom. The storeroom also has efficiency gains, such as fewer trips around the storeroom, as they have a complete list […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:15-04:00February 4th, 2019|Basic Spare Parts Management, Roles & Responsibilities, Spare Parts Management, Standard Work, Teamwork, Work Management, Work Planning|Comments Off

Using Reliability Analysis to Determine Spares Stocking

How to use an FMECA or RCM Analysis to Determine What Spares to Stock

Determining which parts of stock can be a very overwhelming process. As such, many choose to blindly accept the OEM or Manufacturer’s recommendations. And why shouldn’t they? The OEM has many years of experience in building these types of assets and supplying spares, right?

One of the common issues with following the OEM recommended spare part lists, is that there are often there are parts that may not be used, […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:21-04:00February 5th, 2018|Basic Spare Parts Management, Spare Parts Management|Comments Off

Who Owns the Storeroom? Maintenance or Procurement?

Understanding who owns the storeroom processes and stocking strategy

There are two different perspectives on the maintenance storeroom. These perspectives are on who owns the operation of the storeroom. Some believe that Maintenance owns the storeroom and the operation of it. Others believe it is Procurement, or potentially Logistics or Warehousing. Some organizations require the storerooms to be operated by a consistent group, while others leave it up to the site.

Regardless […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:22-04:00January 15th, 2018|Basic Spare Parts Management, Roles & Responsibilities, Spare Parts Management|Comments Off

The Top 5 Signs That Your Storeroom is Broken

A simple way to see how effective your storeroom is at providing the right part, at the right time, in the right quantity.

Storerooms are a critical part of any maintenance and reliability program, but they are often overlooked. When a storeroom is operating at best in class levels, the right parts are available at the right time. The storeroom is only able to achieve this when it its into the maintenance department.

As a result, I am often asked how to evaluate and improve the storeroom and its service level. […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:52-04:00January 16th, 2017|Basic Spare Parts Management, Spare Parts Management|Comments Off

Optimizing Your Storeroom

Using a Kaizen Approach to Improve Your Storeroom

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No storeroom is perfect, well at least of those I have seen. The process of improving is never ending. A common term for this process of continuous improvement is Kaizen. The Kaizen activity is often seen on the plant floor, either the form of a blitz, in which a tremendous amount of resources are thrown at an issue or an area. The other is a systematic approach, in which a small amount of improvement is achieved each day.

These same approaches can be […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:54-04:00December 5th, 2016|Advanced Spare Parts Management, Basic Spare Parts Management, Continuous Improvement, Spare Part Optimization, Spare Parts Management, Storeroom Layout|Comments Off