Why Is Breakdown Maintenance So Bad? The equipment and machines used for production are a manufacturing or industrial operation’s lifeblood. Equipment shutdowns means products not being made or delivered to customers. So it is important to keep them up and running. Waiting until a piece of equipment shows signs of trouble can seriously impact production. …
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New Maintenance Management Software Package. Now How Do I Set It Up? It can be hard setting up a CMMS system (maintenance software package) for the first time. This is especially true if you do not already have an existing maintenance management program. However, even migrating from an existing CMMS program has its own challenges! You need a plan …
Maintenance software can cost more than you think! When buying a CMMS/ maintenance software program you often need to provide justification for the purchase in terms of expected costs and savings to your management. This can be hard to do and quite tedious. You need to collect both the possible costs involved as well as …
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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 organization? You may be finding it quite a challenge! You have pared down the list of the CMMS programs to a handful of likely products. Now for trials of the maintenance …
How important is the maintenance department in a manufacturing plant? In quite a few manufacturing companies higher management tends to see maintenance as a necessary evil! A cost center that adds little value. They may even see the maintenance team not as a crucial part of the company (sometimes maybe a few steps above the …
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Scheduling equipment maintenance can be challenging! It is good to get an idea of maintenance due for the coming months. You want to see if too much work is scheduled in some weeks while not much is scheduled during other weeks. Low periods could also be good for maintenance staff to take time off or …
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CMMS software reviews make life easier! When you are looking for maintenance management software (CMMS software) for your organization you are probably going to be doing a lot of research. You will do a lot of web searching, look at magazines, get referrals as well as look for reviews of software. This is where it …
Public utility maintenance is a critical function Public utilities cover a wide range of services from power generation & distribution, water supply, gas supply, waste water treatment and more. They provide essential services in a specific geographic area and have unique challenges. Most are heavily regulated and are required to provide uninterrupted services with few …
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Equipment Availability Is Not The Best Metric To Track! You want to measure total equipment downtime. Equipment availability especially when expressed as a percent can mislead. For example the equipment downtime doubles from say hundred hours to two hundred hours. However, you may just see a small percent drop in equipment availability if you have …
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If you are responsible for managing maintenance at a large facility or industrial plant you will be handling a lot of requests for maintenance work. Most will be for emergency or breakdown maintenance. Here the requester wants an immediate fix. Others will be for planned maintenance. Here the requester will want you to do maintenance …
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