What is an equipment maintenance schedule? Nearly all equipment and heavy machinery needs some kind of regular maintenance aka an equipment maintenance schedule. This type of maintenance is usually called preventive or planned maintenance (PM). Sadly, this is an often overlooked aspect of maintenance management and often skipped. Just think about it…
Importance Of Preventive Maintenance Preventive maintenance is a critical function of a maintenance department. The equipment and machines used for production are a manufacturing or industrial operation’s lifeblood. Equipment breakdowns due to missed maintenance means products not being made or delivered to customers. Unfortunately maintenance departments are often overworked. When there are other emergencies, preventive …
Preventive maintenance planning has a purpose! Are you using maintenance management software for your preventive maintenance planning? Most maintenance programs aka CMMS software have many reports for different purposes. They often look very good and sometimes they can be really useful! 😉 On the other hand… Do you know the health of your preventive maintenance plan?
Why Audit Your Maintenance Management Program? Did you do an audit of all your maintenance activities for the last year? Don’t look at me like that. I know it sounds rather tedious! 🙄 However, it has several benefits. It can help you identify problem areas and scope for improvement. In addition find where you are …
Maintenance work order cost tracking can be a challenge. For instance you run a large equipment maintenance program and create several hundred work orders a month. How well are you alerted to material and labor usage problems? Not being able to track such items will often result in unexpected costs that will break your budget. …
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Is a breakdown maintenance plan even possible? How can one plan for breakdown maintenance? It is by nature very unpredictable! However, there are some things that you can do. This will make your maintenance team better in handling unplanned equipment breakdowns and other maintenance emergencies.
When equipment preventive maintenance Becomes A headache! Have a lot of equipment preventive maintenance being skipped? Is it because reactive maintenance aka breakdown maintenance is dominating your day? 😒 Want to create a good preventive maintenance plan to reduce equipment breakdowns and complaints from users and management? Here are a few preventive maintenance planning tips …
The Hidden Costs Of Maintenance Parts Management Managing maintenance parts and supplies can be hard. This become a harder still if we have many types of equipment to maintain. Each type of equipment will have its own unique set of parts and supplies for corrective and preventive maintenance. But that’s just part of the story… …
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Doing a CMMS software trial can be a lot of work! Are you are in the process of selecting maintenance management software for your maintenance repair and operations? Certainly it can be quite a challenge! One may have cut down the list of the CMMS programs to a handful of suitable products. Therefore it is …
Equipment maintenance Workflow Setup Well organized maintenance programs have a clear equipment maintenance workflow (see the diagram below). For instance a workflow with the following steps: External users or customers send in maintenance work requests. We schedule this maintenance work as well as preventive maintenance and create work orders. Technicians receive these work orders and …
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