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In the course of walking your vibration routes keep your eyes open for other maintenance/operations issues such as air leaks, steam leaks, oil leaks, missing covers etc… and note them for work order generation or if you are a contractor let your customer know of these issues. This has worked well in our facility and helped with reliability.

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Aluminum Chips can be a hazard

Aluminum chips are part of our everyday routine being a CNC machining shop. Most of the downtime initially was due to chips smothering sensors and getting in the way of hard switches causing abnormal functions, thus more downtime. The maintenance crew was frustrated and blamed themselves for not keeping the machine running. The result was over 40% of our downtime was for chips.

Using the CMMS properly and calculating Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), a PM was drawn up on one machine. The procedures included cleaning the chips at a greater frequency than the machine was going down and using the exhausts of solenoid valves to help blow the chips off the tracks, hard switches, and sensors. Our uptime increased substantially, so high that in most cases except for product demand the production workers are happier and most weekend work is eliminated. Most if not all CNC now have a PM for chip cleaning and checking the exhausts on the valves.

The maintenance crew is happier and the management is pleased.

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Has anybody got any information about potential energy savings from a predictive maintenance program incorporating vibration analysis, motor current and flux analysis and shaft voltage trending.

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212° Commitment

Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to hear Jim Cathcart speak to a corporate audience. Jim is a good friend, and a great speaker. He told the story of how listening to a radio program over 25 years ago changed his life forever, and with his permission I’d like to share it with you.

In 1972, Jim was working at the Little Rock, Arkansas, Housing Authority making $525 a month, with a new wife and baby at home, no college degree, no past successes, and not much hope for the foreseeable future.

One morning, he was sitting in his office listening to the radio, to a program called “Our Changing World” by Earl Nightingale, who was known as “the Dean of Personal Development.” That day, Nightingale, in his booming voice, said something that would change Jim’s life forever: “If you will spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field, you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.”

Jim was stunned, but the more he thought about it the more it made sense. Although he had never given a speech, he had always wanted to help people grow in areas of personal development motivation. He began his quest to put Nightingale’s theory to the test by reading books and listening to tapes whenever he could. He also started exercising and joined a self-improvement study group. He persisted through weeks of temptations to quit, just by doing a little more each day to further his goal. Within six months, he had learned more than he had in his few years of college, and he began to believe he could turn his goal of becoming a motivational speaker into reality. All the hard work, the discipline, and study paid off. Jim now has delivered more than 2,500 speeches worldwide and has won every major award in the speaking industry.

Just like companies have market value, so do people. In the simplest terms, your market value increases by knowing and doing more. You see, Jim really understood one of my favorite laws in life…you cannot get what you’ve never had unless you’re willing to do what you’ve never done.

He understood the power of 212° commitment.

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Scrutinizing CMMS System Security

Upon completing a CMMS implementation and ensuring the system was well prepared to meet the organizations maintenance management needs I watched as the CMMS system security was tweaked. This tweaking was accomplished by the casual system user group that had no real interest in the maintenance management data but had a high level of interest in what the true system users (maintenance) were capable of doing within the system. After providing education on maintenance management and reviewing the established user roles within the system I was able to convince them that:

Maintenance Planners really did need access to the maintenance employees to develop maintenance schedules. They really do need to be one of the roles that can re-open a closed Work Order to insert critical information that would otherwise be lost forever.

Human Resources really did need access to up-date wage rates when increases were awarded to ensure we captured accurate labor costs. Someone must be able to add the new employees that are hired as well.

Supervisors really did need access to craft and employee utilization reports to ensure their direct reports were effectively and efficiently utilized.

Materials Management personnel really did need the capabilities to up-date inventory quantities and prices to reflect the current stores inventory.

Before you start scrutinizing the system security of your system ensure you have the right representative group that understands the maintenance process. Review the position descriptions for each role that is established within your system. Does the security really need to be tweaked or is it the position description that needs to be tweaked? To tweak or not to tweak… that really is the question. Not sure what roles should have what capabilities email me for ideas.

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