Maintenance Management

A collection of 62 posts

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Attaining Optimal Production Efficiency With a Rigid Plant Maintenance Strategy

Plant maintenance is a crucial aspect of any industry or factory that ensures machinery and equipment function properly. Without regular maintenance, your assets can break down and cause costly downtime.

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Balancing Reliability and Availability: Striving for the Best of Both Worlds

Availability is the readiness of equipment to be used when necessary, and reliability measures an equipment's ability to function without failure.

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Autonomous Maintenance (AM): Meaning, Benefits, 7 Steps to Implement

Autonomous maintenance (AM) relies on giving front-line employees the responsibility for maintaining and keeping track of equipment to improve reliability and decrease maintenance costs.

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Routine maintenance: A how-to-guide to manage facilities proactively

Routine maintenance is performing regular tasks to keep equipment or machinery functioning correctly.

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Industrial Maintenance: Reduce Breakdowns, Boost Uptime & Reliability

Industrial maintenance is like taking care of your car. It's all about ensuring that your company's machines and equipment are working correctly and efficiently. This can include things like regular check-ups, cleaning, and fixing any problems that come up.

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Reducing Reactive Maintenance and Backlogs with Scheduled Maintenance (+ How a CMMS Solution Helps!)

Scheduled maintenance refers to routine equipment servicing and systems, usually performed at regular intervals, to ensure they continue functioning properly and to identify and address any potential problems before they become serious.

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Reducing Emergency Maintenance: A Step-by-Step Guide

Emergency maintenance is the work performed on a system or equipment to fix or solve a problem causing the system or equipment to malfunction. This is usually done as quickly as possible to minimize any impact on the system or equipment.

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LOTO Procedures: Why They Must Be OSHA-compliant

Lockout and Tagout (LOTO) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a hazardous energy control standard that ensures worker safety during maintenance and servicing.

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What is PSSR?

PSSR is an essential part of the commissioning process for new facilities and equipment and is also used when existing facilities and equipment are being modified or reactivated after a period of inactivity.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Maintenance KPIs

Maintenance KPIs help organizations understand the reliability and efficiency of their equipment and provide a basis for comparing the performance of different systems and equipment.

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A Quick Guide to Avoid Getting Pencil Whipped!

Pencil whipping in manufacturing and maintenance management refers to signing off inspection work, preventive maintenance, quality check, or even filling out behavior-based safety observation cards without actually auditing or checking if those tasks were completed.

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Preventive Maintenance Scheduling: A Simple Guide

Preventive maintenance scheduling is a planned maintenance program for equipment and facilities. It aims to maintain equipment in a good condition and prevent failures, malfunctions, or breakdowns by performing regular inspections, testing, cleaning, and replacement of parts as needed.

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An Actionable Guide to Conducting Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs)

A facility condition assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of a building's physical condition. The purpose of a FCA is to identify any existing or potential problems that could affect the building's performance or integrity and to provide recommendations for addressing those issues.