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5 Tips for Improving Preventive Maintenance with EAM/CMMS Software

5 Tips for Improving Preventive Maintenance with EAM/CMMS Software

Any maintenance manager at a manufacturing plant or facility is likely aware of the problems caused by faulty equipment. Even if just one piece of equipment out of thousands breaks down, it could cause your entire operation to come to a halt. Preventive maintenance involves scheduling various maintenance activities to keep your equipment in peak condition and prevent breakdowns and failure. EAM/CMMS software is an essential tool for scheduling preventive maintenance and monitoring performance. The following are 5 tips to improve preventive maintenance with maintenance management software.

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

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Most Commonly Underused CMMS Features

Most Commonly Underused CMMS Features

Want to achieve a worthwhile return-on-investment (ROI) from your software? Then it’s important to learn about some of the most commonly underused computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) functions. Many organizations do not use all of the features their preventive maintenance software provides, or don’t use the functions to their full capacity. In fact, a majority of plant maintenance managers feel they aren’t using their preventive maintenance software to its maximum capability.

Modern-day CMMS systems are crammed with various features, and users don’t necessarily need to access and master every feature of the system. However, it becomes a problem when users get so comfortable with their way of doing things that they avoid features they’re not familiar with. Especially if those features could potentially improve their productivity. Understanding what impact underutilized CMMS functions can have on your maintenance department will help you make the most of your software.

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

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Maximizing Routine Maintenance Efforts With A CMMS

Maximizing Routine Maintenance Efforts With A CMMS

Your facility asset and equipment are first and foremost a significant organizational investment. Performing routine maintenance on them is a key aspect of maintaining them in functioning order. Nothing will risk derailing production like an unexpected catastrophic failure of critical equipment – and one of the best ways to prevent that is to develop a robust routine maintenance strategy for your assets.

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

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7 Common Preventive Maintenance Mistakes

7 Common Preventive Maintenance Mistakes

Over the last few decades, advancements in technology have dramatically changed the maintenance and reliability industry. Organizations have invested heavily in automation and technology to reduce staff overhead, improve product quality and increase safety. One thing that hasn’t changed much in the last few decades is preventive maintenance, or PM. PM is all about performing routine maintenance to improve equipment reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness. If applied correctly, PM has the capacity to transform an organization’s maintenance approach and lead to significant improvements in equipment reliability. However, there are many mistakes that can ruin an organization’s PM program.

The following are seven preventive maintenance mistakes to avoid: [Read more…]

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

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Perfecting Preventive Maintenance Planning With A CMMS

Perfecting Preventive Maintenance Planning With A CMMS

Equipment maintenance is a requisite for companies that seek high-performance from their physical assets. If they can leverage a well-executed maintenance strategy, such organizations should gain the expected advantages that reliable assets will deliver such as reductions in operational costs and unplanned shutdowns. 

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

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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.

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Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Preventive Maintenance

by Doug Plucknette Leave a Comment

The Dangers of RCM Shortcuts!

The Dangers of RCM Shortcuts!

When people first begin to learn about Reliability Centered Maintenance and methodologies like RCM Blitz, they get excited about the potential results that can come from performing a RCM analysis and implementing the resulting tasks. Shortly after completing their RCM Training some begin to understand that good RCM takes leadership, structure and discipline, others begin to think of ways to shortcut the process. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz Tagged With: Preventive Maintenance, RCM

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

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