February 21, 2008
Using e-MESA for Planning and Scheduling in SAP
What if you could maximize your SAP INVESTMENT?
What if you could get a daily or shift schedule out in minutes rather than hours?
What if there was a way to get all of your maintenance information into one interface?
eMESA – The Art of the Possible
http://www.dts-global.com
Register for a 30 minute webinar on eMESA Friday February 22
February 21, 2008
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Tip
A world class Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) effort is totally defendant on the selection of your RCM Facilitators.
The RCM Facilitator must have the experience and dedication it takes to adhere to the step by step RCM process, leading the team by the correct questions in the correct order. Your RCM facilitators should remember it’s more important for them to be experts in the RCM process and not experts in the process or equipment they are analyzing.
Tip provided by Doug Plucknette
RCM Discipline Leader
Allied Reliability, Inc.
888-414-5760
February 21, 2008
Leadership Tip
Leading the flock - A Leadership Tip
As a manager, ask yourself this question. Are your direct reports there for your sake or are you in a management position to coach and mentor your direct reports?
Reflect on the image of the shepherd being there for the sake of the sheep and you will have the answer. Thinking in terms of servant leadership, as a supervisor or manager; your role is lead and develop your people. You must adapt to them, determine their needs, set expectations, hold them accountable, rate their performance, clear obstacles that block their paths, and most importantly, help them flourish. If people are not meeting your expectations, take a few minutes to look in the mirror; reflecting on what you see. Are you adapting your leadership style to meet their needs and serve them? Make them successful through your character and adaptive style.
Do not forget, it is not about you; it is about your people.
Tip provided by Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM
People and Processes
February 21, 2008
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February 21, 2008
More on PM or CM
Is it preventive or corrective maintenance?
There are currently two trains of thought on the use of preventive maintenance practices..... One for mechanical intervention, and one that denotes preventive maintenance as strictly dynamic (observational).
I happen to be a purist: all PM’s should be observational, with corrective measures derivative of this observation. That way, it can be correctly coded into your CMMS as PM as opposed to CM.
In addition, you can then begin to back-track or calculate how many work orders were a direct result of your PM. More paper work, but more accuracy, and helping build your business case for a vigorous PM program.
Reader tip provided by Thomas Heiserman
Maintenance Solutions Group
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February 21, 2008
Maintenance Tip
When installing replacement chains, stamp the replacement date on the master link. It will help you determine chain life. Also, if you write the number of links on the inside of the machine, you can make the replacement chain the correct length before stopping the machine to replace it.
Reader tip provided by Scott Buker
Denso
Maryville TN
Thanks Scott - I will hand deliver a Maintenance Tip hat while I am at MARCON-2008 and PEM-2008 in Knoxville, May 6-8
February 14, 2008
Learn to build an effective maintenance training program
MTrain-2008 Maintenance Training Conference
March 18-20
Las Vegas
Is your training program designed to deliver the competencies you need to meet the maintenance and reliability challenges of an aging workforce, lack of written procedures, increased workload with decreased workforce?
If you would like to learn how to build an effective competency based training program MTrain-2008 is an event you should attend.
In just 3 days you will learn to develop an effective maintenance training program that included pay for performance, certification and competency mapping.
To learn more about MTrain-2008 case studies and workshops please call our conference specialists toll free (888) 575-1245 or:
February 14, 2008
Maintenance Tip
Using a laser infrared thermometer you can find a dead cylinder on an engine, without ever touching the engine itself.
Just point it at each cylinder until you find a drastic change in temperature ,the one with the lowest reading will be the dead one.
Reader tip provided by Jerry Harnage
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THANKS,
JERRY.
February 14, 2008
Motor Reliability and Technical Conference
Sail the High Seas of Motor/Asset Management with PdMA Corporation’s Annual Motor Reliability and Technical Conference, scheduled May 13-15, 2008 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
Please call PdMA toll free (800) 476-6463
Find out more about the Motor Reliability and Technical Conference
February 14, 2008
Top 10 Common Sense Fallacies in Maintenance
#8: Not enough money to hire an expert
The corporation VP calls and tells the plant manager that the plant is loosing money and must stop spending money. The plant manager immediately tells everyone to stop spending. I spoke to a friend at this plant who called me the other day and was looking for help. I ask if he had called a reliability consultant to come in to help them. He stated he did but he said they were too expensive (by the way I knew the company he mentioned and they are one of the best in the business, real help was knocking on their door). He told me the plant was loosing millions of dollars and could not afford any help right now. I ask how I could help. He said his plant manager had read one of my books and wanted my advice. I told him he could not afford not to hire someone to hire an expert. The first step the expert should do is to develop a return on investment and show him how much money he is loosing and how their assistance can return his plant back to a secure financial footing.
Tip by Ricky Smith, Asset Reliability Advocate
Co-author Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers
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