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How To Fix Maintenance Workflow Problems
maintenance Workflow Setup: A well organized maintenance management program will have some distinct workflows (see the diagram below). For instance, external users or customers send in maintenance...
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How To Do Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM)
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 shutdowns...
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6 Tips To Reduce Equipment Maintenance Costs
Equipment maintenance costs at many organizations can be a significant expense. As a result, maintenance managers or supervisors will often be under pressure to reduce these costs. Due to its impact...
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Equipment Maintenance Software Reports For Real Costs
Some maintenance jobs can be costing more than you thought! Maintenance managers often look at equipment maintenance software reports by equipment to find equipment that is getting expensive to...
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3 Ways To Improve Maintenance Spare Parts Management
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...
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7 Tips To Plan Equipment Preventive Maintenance
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...
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7 Breakdown Maintenance Planning Tips
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...
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5 Tips For Maintenance Work Order Estimates
Bad work order estimates equals big headaches! The time estimate for a maintenance work order is critical, especially when there are many to complete each day. Underestimating the time required will...
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5 Step Maintenance Management Program Audit
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...
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Preventive Maintenance Planning – How To Check Plan Health
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...
View Article6 Ways CMMS/ Maintenance Software Can Improve Vendor Management
Replacing equipment that fails unexpectedly can be very expensive not only in terms of costs incurred but also in lost revenue and opportunity cost. This makes it crucial that maintenance is properly...
View ArticleKey Maintenance Management Statistics For Maintenance Planners
How to report maintenance metrics to management? This article is a follow up to a previous article “Role Of The Maintenance Planner In Maintenance Management Programs“. Maintenance planners and...
View ArticleMaintenance Management – Sources Of Failure (Part 2)
More maintenance management problems This post is a continuation of a previous post Maintenance Management – Sources Of Failure (Part 1). In it we discussed common sources of complaints about the...
View ArticleEasier Maintenance Budget Setup With CMMS Software
If you are a maintenance planner or maintenance manager at a large commercial and industrial facility one of your jobs will be to prepare a maintenance budget and get it approved. This will decide how...
View ArticleAPQP A Quality Improvement Process In Maintenance Management
APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) is a framework of processes and ideas originally developed in the automobile industry to improve product quality. It is similar in concept to Six Sigma used in...
View ArticleSix Signs Your Maintenance Plan Needs To Change
Why Should A Maintenance Plan Change? A maintenance plan covers the different types of corrective and preventive maintenance you do on different equipment and facilities. The plan could be something...
View ArticleHow Corrective Maintenance Repairs Are Speaking To You
Corrective maintenance repairs are trying to tell you something Even top of the line assets will break down eventually. It’s just the way it goes when it comes to machinery, equipment and facilities....
View ArticleTop 5 Mistakes When Hiring Maintenance Department Personnel
A maintenance department is as good as its people When it comes to hiring personnel, it’s not always easy. In fact, it can be quite challenging at times. The truth is that hiring a bad employee can...
View ArticleHow To Analyze Machine/ Equipment Breakdown Reports From CMMS Software
Problem Equipment May Not Be Obvious! Having a lot of equipment breakdowns & unexpected downtime? Or is everything under control and there are hardly any maintenance emergencies? 😎Wow! Whatever the...
View Article3 Quick Maintenance Metrics For Maintenance Planners
Maintenance department having problems? Maintenance departments in many organizations often have a thankless job! If things are running smoothly no one remembers them. The opposite happens when there...
View Article5 Tips For Preventative Maintenance With CMMS Software
Breakdown maintenance is just one of your headaches! Anyone who is responsible for maintenance in a commercial facility or manufacturing plant is keenly aware of the problems caused by equipment...
View ArticlePreventive Maintenance Scheduling – When Is It Excessive?
Preventive maintenance scheduling leading to complaints? It does sound weird! Have you ever had this happen to you? For example, management or other departments complain that your preventive...
View ArticleHow To Schedule Equipment Preventive Maintenance
Planning preventive maintenance can be a challenge! It is important to have an idea of equipment preventive maintenance due for the coming months. We do not want to schedule be too much work in some...
View ArticleSeven Asset Maintenance Tips With CMMS Software
Equipment Asset Maintenance Is Critical Asset maintenance is critical in industries with large numbers of expensive equipment & machinery. These assets often are a large portion of the capital...
View ArticleHow To Use A CMMS For Maintenance Request Software
Maintenance request software may seem like a rather specialized requirement! However, if one is responsible for managing maintenance at a large facility or industrial plant we will be handling a lot of...
View Article4 Reasons For CMMS Implementation Failure
A CMMS Implementation Plan Goes Wrong! Many maintenance departments struggle with ongoing maintenance. There is so much to do and so much that never gets done! A computerized maintenance management...
View ArticleWhat is Proactive Maintenance and How to Implement It
Maintaining optimal equipment performance is more crucial than ever. Enter proactive maintenance — a methodology that prioritizes preventing failures before they occur. But what exactly is proactive...
View Article7 Key Maintenance Planning Principles and Best Practices
Every piece of equipment, machinery, and asset is a cog in the intricate machinery that propels a business forward. But what ensures that equipment operates at its optimum capacity, ensuring not only...
View ArticleInside Machine Maintenance: How to Keep Your Machinery Healthy Year-Round
Whether it’s ensuring that a manufacturing production line runs without hitches or a tractor on a farm operates efficiently, machine maintenance makes sure that the used equipment is safe and...
View ArticleDeferred Maintenance: How To Reduce Your Maintenance Backlog
Deferred maintenance – two words that can send shivers down the spines of facility managers and property owners alike. From spiraling repair costs to safety hazards and diminished property value, the...
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