Tag: Continuous improvement
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Measuring and Improving CBM Effectiveness
Maintenance departments regularly implement policies and technology aimed at improving maintenance effectiveness. However engineers who implement and justify such projects in the maintenance department often encounter difficulty when trying to quantify, credibly, a project’s impact on maintenance or on asset performance. The problem lies in the many factors governing Performance Metrics at different time periods. How…
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Maintenance software
Understanding how all the different products EAM/CMMS/RCM/AIP etc fit into the mining or energy space and then how they could be applied to a particular business can be daunting. Where does each product type fit? What are the differences among EXACT/LRCM, Meridium, Ivara and Utilicase products? Would they be competitors or would EXAKT/LRCM support those…
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Two philosophies in maintenance improvement
Maintenance managers improve performance in two ways, described roughly as: technology centric, and people centric. Technology The technology centric approach relies on two main types of information systems: automated testing and diagnostics, and work management systems Automated diagnostic systems provide infrastructure and contain logic to interpret equipment and process data correctly. Built-in logic and associated…
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What is a pilot project?
Here is an excerpt from the U.S Department of Defense (DoD) “CBM+” manual describing the military philosophy on pilot projects, which is appropriate in industrial maintenance. Despite the rigor applied in controlled testing, there is no substitute for process testing in an operational environment. Pilot tests are a staple of DoD’s approach to implementation of…