Managing small maintenance jobs
There are two kinds of maintenance work that should not appear on weekly work schedules: – Genuine emergency or urgent work that is not identified when the schedule is prepared and – Small jobs that do...
Managing major plant shutdowns – countdown check list
The following list of activities was prepared by a team of Maintenance and Operations experts with many years of experience in preparing for and executing major plant shutdowns. It was based on the requirements for...
Maintenance business processes and job descriptions
This article covers the development of business processes for Maintenance followed by a discussion on the use of business processes as the basis for practical position descriptions. ___________________________________ When visiting institutions and industrial operations...
Looking after the basics
A client once asked me to fly from our office on Vancouver Island to their operation in the UK so that I could provide recommendations on how to improve the service from their Maintenance...