Articles tagged with 'Maintenance Improvement'

We often hear companies say that people are their best asset. Why is it that the sum of good people and good systems does not always produce good performance?

Maintenance sits at the heart of any good asset management system. Here are 10 tips to start improving your work management and deliver results.

Before you rush in and cut the maintenance budget, here are a few questions you should ask your maintenance manager (and the risks if you don’t).

Lean maintenance is an approach to help identify and eliminate waste, and deliver bottom line improvements if implemented and managed in the right way.

Let's discuss the essential elements for a successful performance measurement system, and how to motivate your organisation towards higher performance.

How are big data, the internet of things, predictive technologies and predictive analytics impacting on preventive and predictive maintenance activities?

In preventive maintenance optimisation, the key objective is to review the current PM program, starting by assembling all of the tasks that it consists of.

Let's compare reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and preventive maintenance optimisation (PMO), and determine which approach is best for you.

This video introduces the PF Interval: one of the core principles that underpins reliability centred maintenance and preventive maintenance program development.

In this short video we give 4 practical tips that can help you to improve the productivity of your maintenance function.

Your asset register is the foundation on which your asset management information systems are built. Here are 5 tips to make sure yours is rock solid.

There is often confusion among those new to maintenance management and reliability improvement regarding the difference between availability and reliability.

Let's discuss some of the practical issues surrounding root cause analysis implementation within organisations, and how to obtain success from these processes.

There is a school of thought, particularly among more highly qualified engineering personnel, that problem solving and root cause analysis is best performed by “experts” in their fields.

A growing number of root cause analysis processes are being supported by software. We need to be careful not to oversell the benefits of software in effective RCA.

Experience tells us that, in practice, there are several barriers that inhibit the success of implementation of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) practices.

Almost every Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) contains a field where you can set the work order priority, but few define how it is to be used.

Usually KPIs focus on the outcomes of our processes, but if we aim to manage processes for more predictive outcomes, we need to develop KPIs that support them.

Let’s examine how you might estimate the costs and benefits associated with a reliability improvement program, to develop a sound business case.

Want to encourage change within your organisation? Here are some tips to build a successful environment and answer the question: "what's in it for me?"

There is little point in having a strategic vision unless you actually allow your people to learn and apply their new skills.

It doesn’t matter where in the organisation structure you are, you have the capability to influence others - and this is at the core of leadership.

There is no perfect off-the-shelf CMMS. Let's discuss how you can tailor your business processes to match your information system workflow, and vice versa.

How do we ensure that planning and scheduling department processes are performed effectively? By understanding the function and boundaries of the two processes.

When you are in the reactive maintenance "death spiral", it takes a major change of approach to break out of it - not just fixing the symptoms of bigger...

It can be necessary to change the management culture, in order to improve maintenance processes and save money and increase reliability in the long run.

Using past experience as a case study, let's take a look at how supply, warehousing and stock control can be improved from a shop-floor perspective.

The 5 Whys technique offers a simple, effective way to uncover the root of an issue. It is best used in troubleshooting and quality-improvement initiatives.

Due to my background in maintenance execution, I have had to deal with the pointy end of maintenance for more years than I care to mention. I have done...

Every company has a different idea of what a mechanical supervisor is responsible for, but there is still a core focus that should apply to anyone in the role.

Your computerised maintenance management system may be the right fit for your organisation, but it can only be as good as your end users and their training.