Don Armstrong
Don Armstrong, is a Professional Engineer whose experience includes direct line responsibility as maintenance and engineering manager for over 5,000 man-years of safe trades effort in three large pulp and paper mills in Canada (Powell River, Crofton and Nanaimo) and one in New Zealand, complemented by eighteen years of consulting in many different industries and institutions, world-wide

Asset identification and numbering

Related articles: Naming standards in the Stores Spare Parts lists The “zero stock” catalogue and its power Database management principles Organization principles This article covers the two main plant numbering systems that together form

Approving Maintenance expenditures

  A fundamental management principle is that any function that is a part of a business process should add value, and this includes the function of approving expenditures. Of course, all major capital expenditures

Allocating and analyzing downtime

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Database management principles

This article is a little longer than others on this site, but it covers the very important topic of applying basic principles to the use of the database in maintenance computer systems. A lack

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We have a large volume of reference material on all subjects related to Maintenance including successful safety programmes and training, technical tips for plant designers, union-management relations and trades training. Since our President, Don,