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May 21, 2019
Strengthen the Operations/Maintenance Partnership
One of the most important relationships that exists in any manufacturing operation, and in many institutions, is the Operations (or building manager) /Maintenance partnership. As has been covered in some of our other articles,
April 24, 2019
Don’t blindly trust your Maintenance busines…
All Maintenance business processes should be under constant review to ensure that they are promoting the activities that will give the best reliability and other desirable results. These processes include the work order system,
February 17, 2019
Should you contract your Maintenance work?
Some principles and a case study As an option to reduce plant costs, plant managers may consider contracting out maintenance work. This may have some merit, depending on many factors, including the nature of
January 28, 2019
Maintenance Database Design, from First Principles
In other articles on this site, we’ve discussed identifying the required outputs for a maintenance computer system as an early step toward database design. “Outputs” include all those documents or screens used by Maintenance
January 6, 2019
Is “Schedule Compliance” a good Mainte…
“Schedule compliance” or “Adherence to schedule” is a commonly-used Maintenance KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and is a measure of how much of the maintenance work scheduled for a maintenance crew, usually in one week,
October 1, 2018
Scheduling Maintenance work – a practical to…
Related articles Planning and scheduling – what are they? Scheduling – why is it so difficult? Scheduling – spreadsheets or critical-path software? Backlogs – their vital importance to Maintenance Setting work priorities Closing
May 31, 2018
Project responsibilities for Engineering, Maintena…
A very common complaint that I hear from Maintenance people in manufacturing operations where capital projects involving plant modifications have recently been completed, is that they are expected to maintain the new facilities but
April 23, 2018
Make your maintenance software user-friendly
One of the things that differentiates maintenance-management software from project-management and commercial inventory-management systems is that maintenance-management systems are used by many people, including operators, who may have had very little training in system
February 25, 2018