Accendo Reliability

Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site

  • Home
  • About
    • Contributors
  • Reliability.fm
    • Speaking Of Reliability
    • Rooted in Reliability: The Plant Performance Podcast
    • Quality during Design
    • Critical Talks
    • Dare to Know
    • Maintenance Disrupted
    • Metal Conversations
    • The Leadership Connection
    • Practical Reliability Podcast
    • Reliability Matters
    • Reliability it Matters
    • Maintenance Mavericks Podcast
    • Women in Maintenance
    • Accendo Reliability Webinar Series
    • Asset Reliability @ Work
  • Articles
    • CRE Preparation Notes
    • on Leadership & Career
      • Advanced Engineering Culture
      • Engineering Leadership
      • Managing in the 2000s
      • Product Development and Process Improvement
    • on Maintenance Reliability
      • Aasan Asset Management
      • CMMS and Reliability
      • Conscious Asset
      • EAM & CMMS
      • Everyday RCM
      • History of Maintenance Management
      • Life Cycle Asset Management
      • Maintenance and Reliability
      • Maintenance Management
      • Plant Maintenance
      • Process Plant Reliability Engineering
      • ReliabilityXperience
      • RCM Blitz®
      • Rob’s Reliability Project
      • The Intelligent Transformer Blog
    • on Product Reliability
      • Accelerated Reliability
      • Achieving the Benefits of Reliability
      • Apex Ridge
      • Metals Engineering and Product Reliability
      • Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics
      • Product Validation
      • Reliability Engineering Insights
      • Reliability in Emerging Technology
    • on Risk & Safety
      • CERM® Risk Insights
      • Equipment Risk and Reliability in Downhole Applications
      • Operational Risk Process Safety
    • on Systems Thinking
      • Communicating with FINESSE
      • The RCA
    • on Tools & Techniques
      • Big Data & Analytics
      • Experimental Design for NPD
      • Innovative Thinking in Reliability and Durability
      • Inside and Beyond HALT
      • Inside FMEA
      • Integral Concepts
      • Learning from Failures
      • Progress in Field Reliability?
      • Reliability Engineering Using Python
      • Reliability Reflections
      • Testing 1 2 3
      • The Manufacturing Academy
  • eBooks
    • Reliability Engineering Management DRAFT
  • Resources
    • Accendo Authors
    • FMEA Resources
    • Feed Forward Publications
    • Openings
    • Books
    • Webinars
    • Journals
    • Higher Education
    • Podcasts
  • Courses
    • 14 Ways to Acquire Reliability Engineering Knowledge
    • Reliability Analysis Methods online course
    • Measurement System Assessment
    • SPC-Process Capability Course
    • Design of Experiments
    • Foundations of RCM online course
    • Quality during Design Journey
    • Reliability Engineering Statistics
    • An Introduction to Reliability Engineering
    • An Introduction to Quality Engineering
    • Process Capability Analysis course
    • Root Cause Analysis and the 8D Corrective Action Process course
    • Return on Investment online course
    • CRE Preparation Online Course
    • Quondam Courses
  • Webinars
    • Upcoming Live Events
  • Calendar
    • Call for Papers Listing
    • Upcoming Webinars
    • Webinar Calendar
  • Login
    • Member Home

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Valuable Secrets in Every Work Order Report

Valuable Secrets in Every Work Order Report

The work order report is the maintainer’s opportunity to advise the engineer what problems exist with equipment out in the plant.

It can also provide an accurate record of what was found during the repair. This makes it important that work order reports are completed in detail and are reviewed by managers and engineers.

Keywords: CMMS, computerized maintenance management system, breakdown, corrective, work order, implementation.

Reporting back on a completed work order is vital.

This task is often seen by tradesmen as a time-consuming requirement of little worth. This view is terribly wrong.

Each repair contains valuable information to improve the future performance of the equipment repaired.

But this information is only valuable if the people who can authorize money for plant improvements are alerted to a problem. The work order report is a tradesman’s opportunity to tell maintenance management the equipment problems they have to live with and what to do to solve them.

A wise maintenance engineer will read all the work order reports for his section of the plant. It gives him additional insight into the plant through other’s eyes.

If the work order is not read by middle managers in maintenance, then improvements to plant and equipment will be slow.

A good work order report tells the reader what the tradesman saw.

Such as “There were score marks around the shaft under the bearing inner race.” Indicates the inner race had probably spun and there may be too much clearance between the shaft and race or the bearing is getting hot and expanding.

This could lead to changing tolerances on drawings or investigating lubrication requirements. Another example is “The rubber in the shaft lip seal was hard and cracked.”

This may mean the temperature was too much for the seal or the wrong rubber was selected.

The tradesman’s comments are critical in the effort to continuously improve plant performance.

A good work order report also tells the reader what the tradesman did to fix the repair.

In the example of the shaft bearing “Polished bearing seat and fitted new bearing” tells the reader the problem has not been fixed and it will likely reoccur.

But – “Checked shaft tolerance and found it was undersized by 0.05mm. Machined shaft and shrunk fit a sleeve.

Machined sleeve to within tolerance and installed new bearing.” – says at least one possible problem (an undersized shaft) has probably been eliminated.

*CMMS –Computerised Maintenance Management System

Mike Sondalini – Maintenance Engineer


We (Accendo Reliability) published this article with the kind permission of Feed Forward Publishing, a subsidiary of BIN95.com

Web: trade-school.education
E-mail: info@trade-school.education

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

« Introduction to Design for Reliability
Usability and Its Impact on Risks »

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Article by
Mike Sondalini
in the
Plant Maintenance series articles provided courtesy of Feed Forward Publications and Lifetime Reliability Solutions.

Join Accendo

Receive information and updates about articles and many other resources offered by Accendo Reliability by becoming a member.

It’s free and only takes a minute.

Join Today

Recent Articles

  • Terrorism Risk Insurance Act Exclusions: Gray Coverage Areas
  • Why Total Productive Maintenance Is The Answer To Reliability-Centered Culture
  • 17 Powerful Insights on Effective Communication Using FINESSE
  • Surprising Insights from Simple Run Charts
  • Risk is Round

© 2023 FMS Reliability · Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · Cookies Policy

This site uses cookies to give you a better experience, analyze site traffic, and gain insight to products or offers that may interest you. By continuing, you consent to the use of cookies. Learn how we use cookies, how they work, and how to set your browser preferences by reading our Cookies Policy.