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The metric of plant maintenance should now be in the ability of the plant to meet the strategic goals of the company beyond
customarily expected cost savings, such as improved plant output, performance predictability, product quality, customer service,
safety, environmental control, etc. (...)
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Reliability Driven Maintenance--Closing the CMMS "Value Gap"?
Part One: Trends and Definition. Olin Thompson and PJ Jakovljevic - January ...
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2005-01-17
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Reliability driven maintenance (RDM) focuses on understanding the "asset health" to determine what maintenance work should
occur and when something should be done. It enables preemptive intervention before failure occurs, whereby failure would mean
that equipment is not delivering required performance re (...)
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Reliability Driven Maintenance--Closing the CMMS "Value Gap"?
Part Two: Reliability Driven Maintenance. Olin Thompson and PJ Jakovljevic ...
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2005-01-18
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Reliability driven maintenance (RDM) focuses on understanding the "asset health" to determine what maintenance work should
occur and when something should be done. It enables preemptive intervention before failure occurs, whereby failure would mean
that equipment is not delivering required performance re (...)
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Reliability Driven Maintenance--Closing the CMMS "Value Gap"?
Part Two: Reliability Driven Maintenance. Olin Thompson and PJ Jakovljevic ...
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2005-01-18
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How can we determine the right maintenance strategy for a specific asset? To meet the objectives of lean, we need to evaluate
the cost of failure in terms of both not meeting business objectives and any extra cost due to the need for unplanned or even
emergency repairs. (...)
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... Olin has been called "the Father of Process ERP." He is a frequent author and an award-winning
speaker on topics of gaining value from ERP, SCP, e-commerce ...
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2004-12-20
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Hardware maintenance can represent a significant information technology cost, but options for managing that cost exist.
If you analyze hardware maintenance from an enterprise perspective, you will identify those options and ensure the cost-effective
delivery of those services. (...)
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Hardware maintenance can represent a significant information technology cost, but options for managing that cost exist. If
you analyze hardware m...
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2000-10-24
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For those looking for a computer maintenance management system (CMMS) vendor, the Web is often the first place to start.
There are a number of web site features one should examine in order to maximize web site visits. Reprinted with permission
from Plant Engineering and Maintenance magazine. (...)
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... site. Employees Be wary of a CMMS vendor that doesn't value its employees enough
to devote space to them on the web site. The vendor ...
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2004-02-21
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The main cause of lean maintenance failure is that companies fail to focus on asset reliability. The reliability approach
to capacity, which includes risk prioritization analyses of assets, can help a company achieve lean success. (...)
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Lean Maintenance—Does It Impact Reliability? Lessons Learned and Best Practices. Ricky Smith - July 12, 2005. Comments: 0.
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2005-07-12
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In most cases, companies will acquire enterprise asset management (EAM) software but the interfaces to external systems will
have to be constructed. (...)
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... and Intentia. However, while most companies recognize the value of EAM software, many
have not even taken the first step. These ...
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2004-03-16
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Service or spare parts have lately become both a blessing and a curse for many manufacturers. (...)
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Smaller Vendors Can Still Provide Relevant Business Systems Part Four: MRO and Spare Parts Management. PJ Jakovljevic - January
27 ...
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2005-01-27
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ERP and other enterprise applications products will thus demonstrate deep industry functionality and tight integration with
best-of-breed 'bolt-on' products in a particular vertical, which also means adding sector-specific, fine-grained capabilities. (...)
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Smaller Vendors Can Still Provide Relevant Business Systems Part Two: Market Impact. PJ Jakovljevic - January 25, 2005. Comments:
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2005-01-25
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... For more information on the topic, see TEC’s previous article entitled “Reliability Driven Maintenance–Closing
the CMMS “Value Gap”?”. ...
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2010-03-19
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Having traditionally done implementations via their product delivery organization, IFS and Intentia also have long exhibited
a focus on product quality and customer satisfaction, which manifests into a lasting relationship with each client. However
like other enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply (...)
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Having traditionally done implementations via their product delivery organization, IFS and Intentia also have long exhibited
a focus on product qu...
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2004-03-17
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Using the SAP ERP Chemicals Packaged Solution may represent a significant advantage—but only if SAP is the right enterprise
resource planning system for the prospective user company, and if the prepackaged business processes are a suitable fit. (...)
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Using the SAP ERP Chemicals Packaged Solution may represent a significant advantage—but only if SAP is the right enterprise
resource planning syst...
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2006-06-01
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Infor's latest acquisitions and vertically-focused "assembler strategy" are furthering its goal to be number three (after
SAP and Oracle) in the world of enterprise resource planning vendors. (...)
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Infor's latest acquisitions and vertically-focused "assembler strategy" are furthering its goal to be number
three (after SAP and Oracle) in the w...
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2006-04-27
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A number of lean manufacturing tools and practices have long been used to reduce manufacturing waste. These include the five
S's, visual controls, standardized work, mistake proofing, total productive maintenance, cellular manufacturing, single-digit
setup, pull systems, sequencing, activity-based costin (...)
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A number of lean manufacturing tools and practices have long been used to reduce manufacturing waste. These include the five
S's, visual controls,...
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2006-02-14
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To meet these challenges, heavy investments have been made in extensive spare ad replacement parts networks. (...)
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To mee...
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2005-07-30
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Managing assets needs to be done in a truly proactive approach, one that ties the management of physical assets to the corporate
objectives. The initial momentum to begin the sequence comes from the vision of a future state. This needs to clearly represent
the corporate objectives and goals, and expressi (...)
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The Strategic Importance of Asset Management Part Three: A New Framework. Daryl Mather - December 20, 2003. Comments: 0. Read
Comments ...
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2003-12-20
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This note is intended to provoke thought regarding some of the dramatic incidents that occurred in the field of asset management
in 2003, as well as address some of their more immediate consequences and ramifications of changing societal attitudes regarding
the failure of physical assets. In particular i (...)
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The Strategic Importance of Asset Management Part One: Changing Attitudes. Daryl Mather - December 18, 2003. Comments: 0.
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2003-12-18
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IFS Defence Ltd., a joint venture between BAE Systems and IFS, recently acquired iSC, a British custom software firm. However,
some product integration issues and questions about long-term benefits for IFS customers outside the defense sector should
be monitored. (...)
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IFS Defence Ltd., a joint venture between BAE Systems and IFS, recently acquired iSC, a British custom software firm. However,
some product integr...
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2008-04-16
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The changing attitudes, understandings of physical assets and market conditions bring a broad array of implications for those
responsible for asset management. The majority of these can be explained as "new accountabilities." Many of these are accountabilities
leveled at, or within, corporations themselv (...)
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The Strategic Importance of Asset Management Part Two: Implications. Daryl Mather - December 19, 2003. Comments: 0. Read Comments
Implications ...
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2003-12-19