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Day in the life of a Proactive Maintenance Planner
Prior to the beginning of the maintenance day shift: The maintenance planner’s day starts before the regular maintenance day shift in order to review the work orders that came in over night. The...
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Should maintenance procedures be a requirement for all critical maintenance...
Repeatable, effective maintenance procedures are seen as “not required” by most maintenance organizations however this couldn’t be further from the truth. Over my career I have seen thousands of...
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Simple Explanation of the P-F Interval
The P-F Interval Made Simple As explained by: Ricky Smith, CMRP The Conversation Begins! In the world of Maintenance and Reliability one may read information which sometimes becomes a little confusing....
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PF Curve 101 – Keeping it simple
Why do people not understand the P-F Curve? At a recent maintenance function, I asked 70 maintenance and reliability professionals how many of them had heard of the P-F Curve and only about 10% stated...
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Does moving from Reactive to Proactive Maintenance require a Change...
If an organization is in reactive maintenance and management decided they need to move to proactive maintenance, one must ask themselves the question, “How hard is it to move from Reactive to...
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Why Do You Need Effective, Repeatable Procedures?
“My maintenance staff are highly trained and do not like using procedures.” – Unnamed Maintenance...
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In Order to Succeed at Increasing Uptime… You Have to Believe You Can!
We sit down for our weekly maintenance scheduling meeting and present our operations counterparts with a schedule that requires 4 hours of downtime in the middle of the week. They immediately start...
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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? With all of these Emergencies?
2 Reasons Why a Maintenance Work Schedule is Important: Ask any manager working in an industrial setting if the would like to see a weekly work schedule developed and they will of course reply to the...
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Common Traps in Your Proactive Maintenance Plans
Introduction Let’s face it. Often times, our proactive maintenance strategies are a mess (I decided to just get that out there in the first sentence and not try to dance around the issue). Show of...
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Which is right for you? OEE vs. MTBF
If you have had some level of classic reliability or maintenance-related training, then you may have likely at least had an exposure to some of the more commonly used metrics such as OEE (Overall...
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