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Computer maintenance management system (CMMS) packages are excellent tools for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data
and can offer insight into a process’ problem. Critical success factors for the effective use for the CMMS involves clear
support from management and measurable drivers involving tim (...)
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2004-02-24
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Lean Maintenance: Best Practices to Turn Asset Management into a Profit Center. Get Free White Papers Related To Lean Maintenance.
It’s common knowledge that asset downtime disrupts production and drives up both process and per-unit operating costs. However,
executives often lose sight of this because t (...)
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Lean Maintenance: Best Practices to Turn Asset Management into a Profit Center. Get Free White Papers Related To Lean Maintenance.
It’s common know...
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2010-03-11
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Study Pinpoints Areas of Growth for After-Market Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives. Find Free IT Guides, Case Studies,
and Other Resources Related to Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives. Increasingly, companies in the aviation industry are
outsourcing their maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO (...)
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Study Pinpoints Areas of Growth for After-Market Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives. Find Free IT Guides, Case Studies,
and Other Resources Re...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Take your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to the next level.You've dreamed about it.now you can do it.Read this Free whitepaper.
Heinz Frozen Food Company was set on improving its manufacturing and maintenance process efficiency, and knew that implementing
a new enterprise asset management (EAM) system (...)
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Take your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to the next level.You've dreamed about it.now you can do it.Read this Free
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Published:
2010-03-11
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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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... decision logic and is practiced by empowered (self-directed) action teams using the 5S process, weekly
Kaizen improvement events, and autonomous maintenance. ...
Published:
2005-07-12
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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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Maintenance Software--Plan Ahead to Maximize CMMS Vendor Web Site Visits. ... Reprinted
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Published:
2004-02-21
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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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... Introduction. Lean manufacturing has been widely accepted as an approach to business improvement.
... Preventive Maintenance Is Anti-Lean. ...
Published:
2004-12-20
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In a challenging economy, many companies focus cost-cutting on direct materials and capital spending rather than maintenance,
repair, and operations (MRO) supplies (also known as indirect materials). But an alternate concept allows you to implement
lean processes to create a high-efficiency MRO outsource (...)
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... how it offers greater visibility and promotes continuous improvement
along the ... Supply Chain: Procurement and Logistics Strategies for Maintenance, Repair,
and ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Companies that have moved from a highly reactive environment to a more planned one notice significant improvement. A computer
maintenance management or enterprise asset management system is useful tool to create a planned environment, help build accurate
equipment history, and develop comprehensive analy (...)
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Companies that have moved from a highly reactive environment to a more planned one notice significant improvement. A computer
maintenance manageme...
Published:
2008-08-06
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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,...
Published:
2006-02-14
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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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... Dofasco's motivation for maintenance practices improvement has
come from its business performance reaching a plateau a few years ago, while the market was ...
Published:
2005-01-18
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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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... It shifts the maintenance paradigm from one of prevention to one of prediction so ...
Rather, it is a continuous, evolving, and ever-improving process of analysis. ...
Published:
2004-03-16
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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...
Published:
2000-10-24
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A CMMS is an excellent business opportunity whose implementation can significantly improve operations, reduce equipment downtime,
increase accountability of the maintenance functions, and produce substantial financial savings. Read on to learn how this
can be accomplished. (...)
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A CMMS is an excellent business opportunity whose implementation can significantly improve operations, reduce equipment downtime,
increase account...
Published:
2003-07-08
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Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
worse, chaos. For this reason, value leakages in procurement functions must be resolved in a systematic, progressive, incremental,
and formalized manner. (...)
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Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
worse, chaos. For this r...
Published:
2006-07-17
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Many market observers might yawn at SAP's recent Premium Support announcement, but users increasingly appreciate more choice
and certainty, and may take notice of what the market leader is trying to do with this middle-of-the-road support option. (...)
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Many market observers might yawn at SAP's recent Premium Support announcement, but users increasingly appreciate more
choice and certainty, and ma...
Published:
2006-05-09
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Lean Simplified: Part Two.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System of Lean Simplified. Part one of the “Lean
Simplified” series looked at manufacturing wastes, lean principles, and the benefits of lean manufacturing. Here, in Part
two, you’ll be taken through the action stage of lea (...)
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Lean Simplified: Part Two.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System of Lean Simplified. Part one of the “Lean
Simplified” series lo...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Companies are looking for more areas to squeeze savings out of operations. One such area that may be fertile ground to explore
is equipment maintenance. The class of software that can help to cultivate these savings is computerized maintenance management
systems (CMMS). This article discusses the basics (...)
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Companies are looking for more areas to squeeze savings out of operations. One such area that may be fertile ground to explore
is equipment mainte...
Published:
2003-07-07
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Service or spare parts have lately become both a blessing and a curse for many manufacturers. (...)
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... planning (ERP) solutions that helps mid-size and large aerospace and defense (A&D), engineer-to-order
(ETO), contract manufacturing, maintenance repair and ...
Published:
2005-01-27
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Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five main steps to achieving lean transition are defining value, mapping the value stream, making the activities
flow, responding to customer demand, and continuous (...)
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Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five m...
Published:
2006-02-15