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Reliability Centered Maintenance Principles
Reliability Centered Maintenance principles provide a function-based system for building a physical asset care program. Rather than replacing components on a set schedule whether they need it or not, RCM identifies those that affect equipment function. This allows maintenance crews to focus on avoiding the consequences of the failure of those components, ensuring that plant…
Preventive Maintenance Plan Basics
A preventive maintenance plan, when developed and executed correctly, should deliver greater productivity and lower overhead. Preventive maintenance is any maintenance we do to prevent further, more consequential maintenance. Efficient and effective preventive maintenance keeps production moving and minimizes downtime. When components don’t last until their next scheduled maintenance, it is all too common for…
Maintenance And Reliability Solutions
Maintenance and reliability are core value drivers for any business. Assets arrive at our facilities with inherent reliability. That inherent reliability is predicated on how well the machine was designed, built, and installed. Once it is in operation, you can’t ‘maintain’ more reliability into it than it has inherently. So, the primary role of maintenance…
Maintenance Planning And Scheduling Saves Money
Maintenance planning and scheduling is almost always the right solution for excessive reactive maintenance. Unfortunately, scheduled maintenance is frequently pushed back in favor of urgent production and maintenance issues or other priorities. Many facilities operate primarily in a reactive mode, responding to breakdowns and problems as they arise. This is expensive in terms of both…
Reliability Centered Maintenance RCM
Reliability Centered Maintenance RCM is a method of building a physical asset care program. It is system function-based, and is generally applied on a component basis. Rather than simply replacing components on a set schedule regardless of their condition, RCM identifies those that affect equipment function. This allows maintenance crews to focus on avoiding the…
Predictive Maintenance PdM Prevents Shutdowns
Predictive Maintenance PdM is the next logical step beyond preventive maintenance for a proactive approach to maintenance execution. PdM is often synonymous with Condition Based Maintenance. This practice is the starting point for the digital transformation of your factory and the cornerstone of the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things). Preventive Maintenance PM Vs Predictive Maintenance…
Storeroom Management Is Critical To Maintenance And Reliability
Storeroom management is the practice of ensuring that the maintenance storeroom has the right part, at the right time, and in the right quantity. The storeroom, and the intentional administration of spare parts in general, is the single most critical element of modern maintenance and reliability efforts. Companies that have not yet discovered that access…
OSHA Process Safety Management PSM
OSHA Process Safety Management PSM is a directive established by OSHA in 29 CFR 1910.119. The intended use of this CFR is to provide direction and process safeguards to companies that use one or more of the 155 identified Highly Hazardous Chemicals (HHCs). The regulation lists the HHCs that fall under this jurisdiction and establishes…
A Preventive Maintenance Plan Delivers Reliability
A preventive maintenance plan should deliver the results that are essential for good maintenance and reliability. Preventive maintenance is any maintenance we do to prevent further, more consequential maintenance. Unfortunately, many (if not most) production departments view almost all scheduled PMs as a nuisance and an interruption to productivity. It is crucial to consider the…
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Reduces Costs and Downtime
Maintenance planning and scheduling is a hot topic in manufacturing today. Maintenance professionals everywhere know that, as Ben Franklin said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” But in reality, scheduled maintenance often takes a backseat to urgent production and maintenance issues or other priorities. Many facilities operate in a largely reactive…