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

Managing repairable spares

“Repairable” spares (sometimes called “rotating” or “rotable” spares) are parts or assemblies that are carried in the Maintenance storeroom and which are not automatically re-ordered when they are issued. They rotate through a cycle

The case for Standing Work Orders

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Infrastructure Surveys

Our definition of “Maintenance” is “Ensuring that physical assets continue to do what they are designed to do in their present operating context”. For manufacturing plant and mobile equipment maintenance servicing and inspection activities are a

Staying in touch

As a Maintenance Manager its sometimes easy to get caught up in meetings and other time-consuming activities to the point that you forget that the real reason for your existence in the plant is

Closing work orders

  A well-managed work order backlog is essential for the efficient management of maintenance work. One of the common problems that make this difficult, and one which managers should manage, is a lack of