64 What is TPM with Greg Folts

TPM or Total Productive Maintenance is a partnership between all those people who are responsible for the equipment that includes maintenance, operations, and engineering departments, usually to take better care of the equipment. The goal here is to select the best assets and maintain them properly in order to get optimal performance. There are five pillars of TPM and these are:

• Maintenance Excellence is related to the operations department who is responsible for using best practices to make sure all the system work at their best in the organizations. These include planning and scheduling […]
  

Storing the right parts in your storeroom at the right time and in the right quantity is always effective. Storerooms are very important to a company s survival in the long run so they should be managed at the core competency level of our businesses. The fact is that there is no way your maintenance and reliability operation is going to be successful without an effective spare parts management strategy and well-maintained storeroom. Not every organization is has a good storeroom and there can be a different number of reasons for that. They may be good at other things and […]

63 The Importance of Storeroom and Spare Parts with John Ross

Storing the right parts in your storeroom at the right time and in the right quantity is always effective. Storerooms are very important to a company s survival in the long run so they should be managed at the core competency level of our businesses. The fact is that there is no way your maintenance and reliability operation is going to be successful without an effective spare parts management strategy and well-maintained storeroom. Not every organization is has a good storeroom and there can be a different number of reasons […]

62 Workforce Survey with Tom Wilk

This episode is based upon the workforce survey conducted by plantservices.com back in 2015 and now again in 2017. These surveys were done to know more about the workforce concerning issues that the professionals face during a change in technology, media, and external environment. These surveys are actually to help industry leaders and managers to get a better insight about their concerns regarding recruitment, training, and finding career opportunities. In this survey the respondents were divided into groups but most of the respondents lay in two major categories Boomers were 49.8% and Generation X at 39.3%– […]

61 Understanding Asset Criticality with Susan Lubell

Now as a maintenance and reliability engineer, you need to come up with some tools to help you do this asset criticality activity. The heat maps are a good way as they include the asset hierarchy of the organization along with the budget details and other related information. You rank every system in the map by creating matrices that have different illustrations usually red dots for critical ones and so on to allow you to focus on specific factors and the determine the consequences if those assets fail. In order to do this, stakeholders, […]