Planner Justification
We discuss justifying the maintenance planner position by demonstrating the expected efficiency gain of the maintenance staff through proper planning and scheduling.
Planner Justification
on Maintenance Reliability
A listing in reverse chronological order of articles by:
- James Reyes-Picknell — Conscious Asset series
- James Kovacevic — Maintenance and Reliability series
- Mike Sondalini — Plant Maintenance series
- Doug Plucknette — RCM Blitz series
RCM Training
RCM Training
RCM Training should always reinforce the importance of ensuring the inherent designed reliability of the asset or system that is being analyzed. It is primarily this function of the RCM process that people fail to fully understand. The importance of properly conveying this message is what most often differentiates successful Reliability Centered Maintenance efforts from those who dabble and fail.
Reliability Centered Maintenance Training should always include a case study that allows the participants to identify failure modes that result in the team making task decisions in each of the following Consequence Categories: Hidden Failure Consequences, Health Safety and Environmental Consequences, Operational Consequences and Non-Operational Consequences.
RCM Training should always include real-life facilitation in a team format. It’s extremely important for those learning the process to understand the detail required to properly assess failure modes, failure effects and tasks.
How to Deliver Sustainable Gains in Maintenance Planning
Utilizing the PDCA Methodology in Work Planning
It is well known that maintenance planning & scheduling can deliver significant improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of the maintenance department. Maintenance planning & scheduling seems simple enough, plan the work and schedule it to be done at the most opportune time. However, why is it that the organization seem to struggle with realizing the benefits of maintenance planning & scheduling? In my experience, I have seen organizations that focus on the scheduling portion of work management, while not fully planning the work. Doc Palmer (an authority on Maintenance Planning & Scheduling) has said that you cannot schedule without proper planning. So how is it that they are scheduling work without knowing what needs to be done and what materials are required?
Planning and Scheduling Goal
Planning and Scheduling Goal
Lets look at the goal of planning and the two major areas of focus to increase efficiency of the maintenance staff. [Read more…]
Is Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) used to reduce Scheduled Maintenance? The answer is…
I often hear people say that RCM is used to reduce Proactive Maintenance. I say, “it depends!” Watch as I explain… [Read more…]
Ok…I’m going to “level” with you…
Ok…I’m going to “level” with you…
This is one of the biggest reasons for one of the biggest misconceptions of the RCM process. If you’ve done RCM and it took you way too long, this may be the reason… [Read more…]
PdM, Condition Monitoring, and Condition Based Maintenance: What’s the Difference? – Part 1
PdM, Condition Monitoring, and Condition Based Maintenance: What’s the Difference? – Part 1
Predictive Maintenance, Condition Monitoring, and Condition Based Maintenance have not been clearly defined and we are looking to begin a dialogue to create a standard definition for these terms. Join us as we begin our discussion. [Read more…]
Insights into Preventive Maintenance Made Simple with Doug Stangier
I recently had the pleasure to interview Doug Stangier, co-author of Preventive Maintenance Made Simple. This is another excellent book in the Made Simple series, published by ReliabilityWeb. During the interview, Doug not only provides insights into his book but also into what world class Preventive Maintenance looks like. Anyone new to maintenance and reliability, or seasoned experts can benefit from this great book. Without further delay, here is the interview with Doug.
Taking a Lean Approach to PM Optimization
How You Have Your PMs Addressing The Right Issues, Make The Effective
In the previous articles, we looked at what type of analysis to use to evaluate the effectiveness of the PMs and if they are cost effective. Once the PMs have been optimized to ensure they are addressing the right failure modes, then they need to be made efficient. Below is an excerpt from a recent article in SMRP’s Solutions Magazine on how to make PM efficient using the lean tools.
Is Your PM Worth Doing? Use a PM Cost Benefit Analysis to Find Out
How To Determine If The PM Activity Being Performed Is Worth Doing
Would you spend $100 every week to prevent a possible issue that will result in a loss of $10? Probably not, so why is that we do that with our maintenance programs every single day? Often, PM and PdM activities are put into place without any thought to the economic impact of the activity. While in theory the PM or PdM activities will prevent or mitigate the consequences of the failure, is implementing one of these activities the right thing to do?
Inspired By Art to Learn a Trade – Lieutenant John Grieco RFD
Inspired By Art to Learn a Trade – Lieutenant John Grieco RFD
Nearly 10 years ago, on an early morning trip to Rochester, New York’s Public Market, my wife and I walked by an old quonset hut where I could see an artist was using a cutting torch to heat and shape a piece of metal. With his back to the street, the light emanating from the torch outlined his body in a flashing smoke-filled halo. While I focused on this image, my wife Leslie was eyeing up the Artists’ work that was proudly displayed outside his shop.
“He does nice work, we should stop on our way out of the market and look around.”
That day would be the first of many trips we would make to the Lasting Art shop.
John Grieco is a Firefighter, Business Owner and Artist from Rochester, NY. If you live in the Rochester area or for that matter, anywhere in Western, New York, you have seen some of John’s amazing metal work. [Read more…]
Linking Failure Codes To A Proactive Maintenance Strategy
Using Failure Data to Drive Sustainable Improvements
If you are lucky enough to have good failure data history in your CMMS, you are one of the few. But even if you have the data, can you use it to make a difference to your organization? Obviously, the data can be used to perform certain reliability engineering analyses, but what can those without reliability engineering experience do with the data?
From Millwright To World-Class Manufacturing – Kirk Wolfinger
From Millwright To World-Class Manufacturing – Kirk Wolfinger
I’ve always been proud to say that the first customer I provided RCM training and consulting for was Whirlpool in Findlay, Ohio.
Having just presented at SMRP’s annual conference in Denver, Colorado, I received an e-mail from Kirk Wolfinger who at the time was Whirlpools’ Maintenance Manager. Kirk wanted to know if I could come to Findlay and help his team get started in Reliability Centered Maintenance.
I was that one phone call that gave me the courage to leave Eastman Kodak and start my own company. [Read more…]
What Keeps The Fire Burning?
What Keeps The Fire Burning?
I’ve been proving RCM Facilitator Training for over twenty years….
I ran into an old friend at a conference recently and after we chatted about the things going on in each of our lives he asked me a series of questions that caught me a bit off guard.
How much longer do you plan to work?
Don’t you get sick of the travel?
You’ve been teaching and facilitating Reliability Centered Maintenance for over twenty years, doesn’t doing the same thing all the time get boring?
Have you ever thought about teaching other courses just to change it up a bit?
What motivates you to keep doing what you’re doing? [Read more…]
Marc Zimmerman – Large Capital Project Manager
Marc Zimmerman – Large Capital Project Manager
The first person I selected to write about is one who I consider a mentor. I met Marc Zimmerman in February of 1981, at the time he was a Journeyman Pipefitter in Kodak’s Polymer Department and I remember watching him work, making precise gore cut fittings and just being in awe of craftsmanship it takes to calculate, lay-out, cut and assemble these pieces. [Read more…]