Preventive Maintenance

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How to earn plant manager buy-in: The importance of credibility and effective resource allocation
Leadership Skills

How to earn plant manager buy-in: The importance of credibility and effective resource allocation

Joe Kuhn says build reliability credibility as an organization by observing and eliminating waste.
Podcast: How to identify and eliminate production bottlenecks
Preventive Maintenance

Podcast: How to identify and eliminate production bottlenecks

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Jerry Nation and Hunter Price discuss the value of preventive maintenance.
How defining moments can make or break your maintenance program
Leadership Skills

How defining moments can make or break your maintenance program

Jeff Shiver explains how these moments force you to confront the weaknesses in your current practices.
Beware of AI-driven maintenance plans filling your CMMS with non-value work
Planned Maintenance

Beware of AI-driven maintenance plans filling your CMMS with non-value work

Jeff Shiver demonstrates how PM checklists generated using AI tools often miss the precision tasks that address your asset’s unique operating context, and can vary between multiple...
Take Steps To Quantify The Value Of Your Preventive Maintenance Optimization Efforts
Preventive Maintenance

Take steps to quantify the value of your preventive maintenance optimization efforts

Jeff Shiver says both KPIs and qualitative feedback are crucial to capturing tangible results.
How Much Condition Based Maintenance Is Enough At Your Facility
CMMS

How much condition-based maintenance is enough at your facility?

David Berger says use your CMMS to build an accurate equipment history and find the balance between use-based maintenance and condition-based initiatives.
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Preventive Maintenance

Preventive maintenance like the military: Part 2

Many industry practices have a similar U.S. Army standard program to use as a guide.
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Preventive Maintenance

Preventive maintenance like the military

The U.S. Army’s standardized system to develop PMs can be a good model for industry.
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Preventive Maintenance

Improve the effectiveness of your preventive maintenance strategy with PM uptimization

When the daily workload is weighing you down, change your course with a new preventive maintenance strategy.
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Preventive Maintenance

How to improve the identification of potential failures at your plant

Jeff Shiver says many tools can assist to determine potential failure conditions, but each type of asset has different needs.
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Preventive Maintenance

Time for smarter PMs: How intelligent technologies are improving preventive maintenance routines

These intelligent technologies are making preventive maintenance tasks more and more frictionless.
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Preventive Maintenance

Your 7-step guide to effective PM optimization

Applying the RCM framework using a checklist approach will drastically improve your PM optimization efforts.
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Predictive Maintenance

How to frame the value of PM and PdM

Knowing the ratio of corrective work identified by these programs is key to calculating cost avoidance.
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Ultrasound

Prevent lubrication-related bearing failures with ultrasound

Ultrasound-assisted lubrication can pave the way toward a best-in-class condition monitoring program at your plant.
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Preventive Maintenance

Rust never sleeps, and neither should your maintenance staff

Are you and your team staying fit and fresh in the face of new technologies, asks Thomas Wilk.