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,
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
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,
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
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
What is the role of a Maintenance Storeroom?
In any organization there are many departments that must work closely with other departments, for example in manufacturing Maintenance and Operations must work as partners, no matter what the relationship is called. One vital
Controlling materials returned to Stores
An essential part of a complete business process for managing a maintenance storeroom is a robust and simple procedure for returning materials to Stores. The components of this procedure should meet the following requirements:
Do Shop Repairs and Fabrication Support your Relia…
Related articles: Repairable spares Serialized spares In last month’s articles I suggested that assigning serial numbers to components and tracking them to identify “rogue” parts is not a good way to ensure reliability.