August 31, 2005
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August 31, 2005
Reliability Excellence and the Planner/Scheduler Function
Manufacturing and Facility maintenance organizations everywhere struggle with the challenge of providing operational capacity for their company or organization. Maintenance strives to accomplish this by increasing the reliability of the equipment or process through effective Preventive Maintenance and effective material and labor budget utilization.
An excellent method for enabling these efforts is through effective planning and scheduling. Qualified Planner/Schedulers in a proactive, mature, structured, and disciplined maintenance organization can greatly impact the success of meeting these challenges. It has been stated and well documented by many companies that every hour of effective planning pays back three to five hours in maintenance technician time saved or the equivalent savings in materials and/or operational downtime. More…
Learn more about developing planner/scheduler reliability excellence
August 31, 2005
Improving MRO Inventory Support for Maintenance
An iPresentation tutorial by Ron Schroder, The Prudent Advantage Group
Key performance goals are being imposed to force overall reductions in MRO inventories even though the purpose of MRO inventory is to support operations and maintenance in their efforts to sustain safe, efficient production. The presenter has twenty years experience in diverse industries helping maintenance protect availability at hundreds of operations around the world. This 10 minute iPresentation provides insights into how you can successfully meet the challenge to produce more with less and concludes with an offer for a confidential, no cost evaluation. Take advantage of this unique opportunity that measures by how much your MRO inventory can benefit from a best practice proven to satisfy conflicting demands without increasing risk.
August 31, 2005
The 10% Rule of Preventive Maintenance
An iPresentation Tutorial by Ricky Smith, CMRP
I believe in the 10% Rule of Preventive Maintenance and it simply states: “that a time based PM must be accomplished in 10% of the time frequency or it is out of compliance”.
Many organizations use the metric “PM Compliance” as a measurement of their maintenance department’s performance. This metric is seen many times by professionals as a joke because if your PM Compliance is high but you continue to have many reliability issues then the metric has no meaning. I have seen organizations that report 100% PM Compliance but have over 10% downtime due to reliability issues. Of course many different issues could contribute to this problem.
Join me for a brief iPresentation tutorial that will fully explain the 10% Rule of Preventive Maintenance
August 31, 2005
Learn Vibration, Infrared, Ultrasound, Oil Analysis and Motor Testing
PdM-2005
Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo September 19-22, 2005
Atlanta Georgia
Register for a 2 day, 3 day or 4 day PdM-2005 pass for focused machinery condition monitoring learning with 30 sessions and short courses as well as 6 full day workshops.
Special Offer: Bring your PdM Team to the PdM-2005!
Register 4 Team Members from the same company and only pay for 3. A 25% discount! Call toll free: 888-575-1245 to register your team before September 15. This offer applies to 2 day, 3 day and 4 day PdM-2005 passes.
Click here to learn more about the learning opportunities and workshops at the PdM-2005 Conference
August 31, 2005
Does Your PM Program Need A Checkup?
Part 4
An iPresentation by Verl Davis, AssetPoint
Join Verl Davis for AssetPoint’s Preventive Maintenance Program iPresentation Part 4. In this session Verl is going to discuss some of the key focus areas that you will want to address when configuring your CMMS or EAM system to support your newly designed or enhanced pm program. With the flexibility of today’s CMMS/EAM systems there are many ways they can be configured to operate. This 10 minute iPresentation tutorial will provide recommendations for project approach, team structure and timelines plus measurements and controls. As in Parts 1, 2 and 3 of our presentation, we will include examples of action steps you can take toward assessing your PM program to determine its effectiveness.
August 31, 2005
Six Steps to A Healthy Machine
by James W. Taylor, Machinery Management Solutions, Inc.
Most condition assessment programs in industry concentrate on one or two technologies. The people, procedures and practices are tailored to those technologies. Application of the technology is optimized, rather than the results. This paper advocates a machine centered, as opposed to a technology centered, approach to the assessment of the condition of machinery. Just as your physician uses a variety of tests and evaluations to assess your state of health, we should do the same for our machinery. To do less means we make decisions based on incomplete information.
Many plants have a condition assessment program in place; usually those programs operate in relative isolation, concentrating on only one or two technologies. The people responsible for them work to maximize the efficiency of the application of the technology. Therefore the application of the technology is optimized, rather than the results.
A machine-centered, as opposed to a technology-centered, approach to condition assessment will maximize the effectiveness of technology in improving machine reliability. This approach focuses on those tests and tasks that are cost effective when it comes to machine reliability. More…
August 24, 2005
Learn New Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Techniques
PdM-2005
Sept 19-22, 2005
Atlanta GA
Please join us at the Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference to learn about the latest techniques and technologies for machinery condition monitoring in 4 days of focused learning.
PdM-2005 offers 6 Workshops, 12 short courses and 30 sessions from people who face the same challenges you do.
Bring the entire PdM team - buy 4 PdM passes and get a 5th free! Call toll free 1-888-575-1245 for details.
August 24, 2005
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August 24, 2005
Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance (2nd Edition)
A Book By Terry Wireman
Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance provides the key details on how to measure and improve one of the most important functions in an organization today: Equipment or Asset Maintenance Management. As one of only a handful of comprehensive collections of performance indicators for managing maintenance in print today, this book is distinguished by its use of techniques based on a variety of management measurement systems, such as the Balanced Scorecard approach. While the previous edition primarily concentrated on the basic indicators for managing maintenance and how to link them to a company’s financials, this new edition goes further by also addressing recent advancements in the management of maintenance. It is an invaluable tool for any company that wants to effectively measure and manage the entire spectrum of maintenance activities to help achieve competitive advantage. Such companies view maintenance as a way to reduce costs of producing their product or providing their services and are intent on using this cost advantage to lower prices, improve profit margins, and improve shareholder value.
Distinctive Features You’ll Find…
• Shows how to maximize your investment in the maintenance function and ultimately your company’s assets by helping you focus on specific indicators.
• Connects typical functional maintenance indicators to a company’s strategic indicators.
• Explains how to improve low-performing indicators.
• Includes a detailed table of contents that helps you quickly find specific indicators and a separate a glossary of maintenance terms.
