PM inspection route tips
A fundamental component of your reliability programme is a well-structured equipment inspection process. If good design standards (such as the use of mesh safety screens for belts and couplings) have been followed during the
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
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
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:
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
“FindIt” Stores Parts search tools
FindIt uses standard Microsoft .Net technology to provide a “Google-like” search for Stores parts and equipment numbers. The inability of many maintenance computer systems to make these searches easy and fast have made
The “Zero-stock”catalogue and its powe…
Its often said that “Maintenance runs on its stores”, and it is largely true. However, while its not economical to stock everything that Maintenance uses (see “What parts should be in your Maintenance Stores“)