Managing a work order backlog is not the most exciting of Maintenance routines, but without a complete and up-to-date backlog important work will get forgotten, work that Operating customers expect to be done will...
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 receive...
As a part of a reliability improvement programme, many process industries assign the losses resulting from each downtime or lost production event to the department “responsible” – usually operations, mechanical or electrical (and perhaps...
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 of...
