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What to Look for in a Computerized Maintenance Management Software Reporting Module

What to Look for in a Computerized Maintenance Management Software Reporting Module

Reporting is one of the most important functionalities of computerized maintenance management software. Organizations spend a great deal of money to obtain data that they can use to make informed business decisions. The ultimate goal of implementing software for maintenance and facilities management is to achieve returns in the form of increased productivity and savings. A CMMS reporting module aids maintenance managers in achieving this goal by enabling them to receive data from maintenance technicians, analyze the data, and make continuous improvements. Reporting modules also allow users to produce graphs and charts of key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Filed Under: Articles, EAM & CMMS, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: CMMS, maintenance

by Bryan Christiansen Leave a Comment

How Can Reliability Engineers Improve Maintenance Management

How Can Reliability Engineers Improve Maintenance Management

Reliability engineers are responsible for keeping equipment or facilities operational, extending their useful lives, and managing maintenance costs by formulating relevant maintenance management policies and programs. They offer guidance to maintenance teams, analyze existing maintenance programs to identify opportunities for improvement. Unlike maintenance supervisors, these professionals rarely engage in the daily execution of maintenance tasks. The roles of reliability engineers span the entire lifecycle of an asset beginning from the design phase, operational stage to disposal. How do reliability engineers influence the gradual improvement of maintenance management in different organizations? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CMMS and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance, reliability engineer

by Alex Williams Leave a Comment

Maximizing the Potential of Your CMMS System

Maximizing the Potential of Your CMMS System

It’s no secret that equipment maintenance software offers many benefits to your organization. However, organizations frequently find that the software doesn’t deliver the end results they anticipated. This often happens because organizations don’t maximize CMMS potential. In other words—they’re not using their software to its fullest potential.

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Filed Under: Articles, EAM & CMMS, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: CMMS, maintenance

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What is Maintenance Workflow?

What is Maintenance Workflow?

Maintenance workflow is the step-by-step process that gets initiated by some trigger event to the point where the action is closed out. For example, in a typical maintenance operation, a trigger event could be a report of faulty equipment. The step-by-step workflow process would include the generation of a maintenance order, the planning of the task, the execution of the repair and the reporting at the end of the job. Every organization has a workflow process whether it is officially documented or not; there is always a standard way to get things done. When this process is not well-defined, it can lead to frustrations on the part of employees trying to get their jobs done as well as major inefficiencies that are costly to the organization over time. In comes maintenance management software…

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Filed Under: Articles, EAM & CMMS, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: CMMS, maintenance

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Cloud Based CMMS vs On-Premise

Cloud Based CMMS vs On-Premise

Is your organization best suited for a cloud based CMMS or on-premise maintenance software? As the price of bandwidth and storage continues to decrease, cloud-based maintenance software is becoming an increasingly popular choice. Many cloud-based CMMS/EAM software vendors are pushing this technology as a convenient and cost-effective alternative to traditional, on-premise software, but cloud-based solutions aren’t necessarily right for everyone. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution, so you would be better off exploring the pros and cons of cloud-based vs on-premise CMMS options before committing to any particular technology. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, EAM & CMMS, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: CMMS, maintenance, reliability

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Emerging Trends In Maintenance Space And Their Relevance For Reliability Professionals

Emerging Trends In Maintenance Space And Their Relevance For Reliability Professionals

As we enter 2020, it’s evident that many of the changes that are sweeping through maintenance management will continue. The major push behind these changes includes the need for improved resource allocation, optimization of capacity, and increased safety performance/compliance.

With that in mind, this is an ideal time to review some of the biggest topics and trends in maintenance that are shaping maintenance practices and consider their relevance for reliability professionals.

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Filed Under: Articles, CMMS and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: CMMS, maintenance

by Katie Switzer Leave a Comment

The Role of Reliability: The Conscience of the Plant

The Role of Reliability: The Conscience of the Plant

If a manufacturing plant was a human brain: Maintenance would be the repairing blood flow, Operations would be the electricity sparking between synapses, and Reliability would be the conscience. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Advanced Engineering Culture, Articles, on Leadership & Career Tagged With: Availability, bearing, Downtime, engineering, Human Brain, maintenance, Morning Meeting, reliability engineering, Risk

by Doug Plucknette 1 Comment

The 6 Things Every Maintenance & Reliability Program Needs To Achieve Sustained Results

insanityquoteI want my customers to be successful, every one of them. Yet there are times I can see the writing on the wall and I know as hard as I might try to show them a clear path to what it takes to be successful they have their own plan. Some of them are so complex that people become confused just trying to make sense of them, and others get so hung up in the minutiae of even the simplest of steps like listing a 3 part failure mode they will word-smith themselves to a point where folks just give up. I find myself asking “why do people have to make what is really so simple into something that appears to be complex?” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz Tagged With: Criticality, Failure Mode, maintenance

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

How Equipment Fails, Understanding the 6 Failure Patterns

How Equipment Fails, Understanding the 6 Failure Patterns

Knowing How Equipment Fails Allows Effective Plans to Be Put In Place and Improve Equipment Reliability

Identifying How Equipment Fails

In the 1960s the failure rate of jet aircraft was high even with the extensive maintenance programs that were put in place to prevent the failures. The programs required overhauls, rebuilds and detailed inspections which required the various components to be disassembled. All of these activities were based on an estimated save life of the equipment. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Availability, Failure Rate, maintenance

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Capital Asset Management: Setup — part 2

Capital Asset Management: Setup — part 2

The rest of us are missing the boat!

Check out part 1, too.

RCM has two potential uses – to set you up for success or to regain success from the jaws of failure.
Regardless of when you use it though, RCM alone isn’t enough to get all the benefits. Applying it after the systems are in service, to recover shortfalls in performance, and then failing to follow up on RCM’s results only delivers part of the benefit. That’s where the aircraft and nuclear industries and the military have it right – they take those extra needed steps. The rest of us don’t! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance, RCM, Risk

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Is Your Maintenance Program Aligned With The Business?

Providing the right level of service to production will ensure the profitability of the business.

25. graphicUsing a Business Needs Analysis will ensure that your maintenance program is on the same page as the goals of the business. Often times the two are not aligned, which leads to excess costs for the business, reducing the ability to be profitable. For example, does your operation require 99.9% reliability? It would be nice but that level of reliability is extremely difficult & costly to achieve. Think of the various industries that require that level of performance.   NASA, the Armed Forces, Nuclear Power, etc. require 99.9% reliability and to achieve so, the effort in design and in operation is extremely intensive. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Business Goals, Business Needs, maintenance, Maintenance Program

by James Kovacevic 1 Comment

Quantify Your Improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Quantify Your Improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Being able to communicate the improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling with finance and senior leaders can be difficult.   The maintenance team sees a high PM Compliance, or more work being complete, but what does that mean for the business in tangible benefits? This is where the communication between maintenance and finance breakdown.   By being able to identify and link the maintenance improvements to financial returns, maintenance will be able to generate support for current and future projects. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Business, maintenance

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

The Need to Improve the Reliability Narrative

The Need to Improve the Reliability Narrative

Little Compromises and Future Costs

In a recent Seth Godin blog, Counting beans he talks about the eventual costs of little compromises. The immediate benefit may be celebration worthy, yet

But overlooked are the unknown costs over time, the erosion in brand, the loss in quality, the subtraction from something that took years to add up.

This certainly applies to reliability as well. Deferring maintenance just one more month, addressing one more software bug can be done after shipping, and similar small shifts erode reliability of your system. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Design For X, engineering, maintenance, Maintenance Cost, Preventive Maintenance

by Doug Plucknette Leave a Comment

The Top 5 Signs of a Reliable Plant

The Top 5 Signs of a Reliable Plant

Having visited hundreds of manufacturing plants in the last 15 years, someone recently asked me if there were any traits the most reliable plants all had in common.

I have listed below the top 5 signs of a reliable plant.

Sign 1 – The plant is clean! 

The plants that are top performers are clean all of the time, clutter is unacceptable, and the tasks required to keep the plant clean are routine business. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz Tagged With: Doug Plucknette, maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance

by Doug Plucknette 1 Comment

10 Things a Maintenance Supervisor Can Do to Improve Reliability

10 Things a Maintenance Supervisor Can Do to Improve Reliability

A few months back, I wrote a blog resulting from a conversation I had with a group of Maintenance Technicians who were attending the International Maintenance Conference (IMC) in 2011.

While the group was enjoying the conference and learning some new things, the general consensus was that they felt they would not be able to apply the tools and techniques they were learning because “management will say they support reliability, but when it comes right down to it, talk is cheap.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz Tagged With: Doug Plucknette, maintenance, Precision Maintenance

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