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“Leave a Legacy”
Respect and Humility are attributes the Best Maintenance and Reliability Managers in the world all have in common. This has been my observation of hundreds of maintenance and reliability organizations around the world. I am not saying these maintenance or reliability organizations are the best in the world. All I [...]
Continue Reading →Companies are always struggling to find the nonexistent “silver bullet” for increasing reliability and equipment performance while reducing costs. Short-term and long-term solutions can increase reliability, asset availability, utilization, quality and capacity, but they’re not easy or simple. Look at the barriers that hold a plant back.
First is the belief [...]
Continue Reading →“PM Procedures are not Built to Stand Alone – Without Effective Replacement / Restoration Procedures Failures will Continue”
In the field of maintenance the traditional approach has been to rely upon the intuitive knowledge and skill of the crafts-persons who conduct it. There is a great deal of pride of workmanship [...]
Continue Reading →You must read this email I received recently, it is a wonderful insite into the problems most Maintenance Managers Face -Maintenance Techs just being honest.
Ricky,
I received some positive feedback from the two maintenance fitters sitting in with myself on your session on maintenance of hydraulic systems.
It was interesting afterwards, the comment was, “we know [...]
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Lubrication related bearing failures account for 60% to 80% of premature bearing failures. These bearing failures are due to either a lack of lubrication, under lubrication, or using the wrong lubricant for the wrong application.
Using an ultrasound instrument to listen to the bearing while applying lubricant and watching the decibel [...]
Continue Reading →“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
- Peter Drucker
How does an organization evolve to the next level of Maintenance and/or Reliability Maturity? This question has been asked by Maintenance and Reliability Managers for as long as I can remember. Over the years [...]
Continue Reading →by Ron Thomas
(Excerpt taken from Chapter 5.3, Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers)
Performance measurement is a fundamental principle of management. The measurement of performance is important because it identifies current performance gaps between current and desired performance and provides indication of progress towards closing the gaps. [...]
Continue Reading →Proactive Maintenance Foundational Requirement # 1 - “Striking the Right Balance Between PM and PdM”
Having the right balance between PM and PdM is key to successful identification of proactive work. Identify how the PF Curve works with Proactive Maintenance vs Reactive Maintenance . The early detection of a defect on the [...]
Continue Reading →By John Day, PE – Engineering and Maintenance Manager for Alumax Mt Holly 1979-1998
INTRODUCTION
Alumax of South Carolina is an aluminum smelter that produces in excess of 180,000 MT of primary aluminum each year. It began operation in 1980 after a 2-year construction phase. The plant is the last greenfield aluminum [...]
Continue Reading →MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY -1979
Alumax Mt Holly
by John Day PE, Maintenance and Engineering Manager
(1 of 3 plants worldwide ever to be certified as ”World Class Maintenance”)
Alumax of SC began development of the maintenance management concept with the [...]
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