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How to define the board of directors’ role in asset management
If your goal is to improve the communications between your plant management ─ including your senior executives and board of directors ─ and your operations teams, a six-year-old industry blueprint known as the ISO 55000 Asset Management standard can serve as your guideline. This certification was launched in 2014, with the purpose of setting expectations…
eMaint implementation at Inframark has been a success
By Pamela Curry, Inframark Special Projects Manager Reprinted with permission from the Inframark newsletter, The Source, October 2019 Inframark’s first eMaint system went live in mid-2018, kicking off an effort to put in place a common computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) platform at all Inframark ConOps projects. When we started, projects were using a variety…
5 Cross-location success stories
A key benefit of eMaint Computerized Maintenance Management System software is how it organizes assets by building, campus, and global locations. Cross-location asset management refers to assets set up in multiple places—near or far. One of the benefits of using eMaint computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software is cross-location asset management. Within eMaint, users can…
5 ways to protect aging systems from cyberattacks
Hackers continue to inflict more and more damage on enterprise companies’ networks, and manufacturing is seen as one of the world’s most exploitable industries. According to a 2019 IBM X-Force report, manufacturing ranked fifth among the top 10 most frequently targeted industry sectors. Today’s condition monitoring sensors and other Wi-Fi-enabled devices possess connecting capabilities and…
Progress on your reliability maintenance goals begins – and ends – with your facility’s culture
Key takeaways from October 2019 webinar by Dr. Klaus Blache As reliability professionals, we’re predisposed to prioritize the most critical assets. But what if someone told you that asset prioritization wasn’t the key to improving reliability maintenance? Dr. Klaus Blache, director of the Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), has…
How to connect a facility ─ even when the customer is skeptical
Excerpts from a podcast with Kevin Clark, CMRP Kevin Clark, former Vice President of Fluke Reliability Solutions, spent more than 35 years in manufacturing, first as a wrench-turner and eventually as an expert in digital maintenance systems. He recently sat down with IIoT podcaster Dez Blanchfield to share some of his experiences. You can listen…
How to pivot your reliability journey to capacity assurance
For some maintenance managers, realizing that IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) devices won’t automatically fix their production capacity issues is kind of like a blockbuster movie with a depressing ending. Cheer up! Indeed, new technology is not the first step in most improvement processes. But it’s also true that we’re much better these days at…
LORA (Level of Repair Analysis) may be the smartest way to maximize your asset maintenance ROI
Lucas Marino, veteran military engineer and an expert on LORA, explains its benefits in a recent webinar While the U.S. Military documents its operations thoroughly, many outdated processes still exist because “that’s the way it’s done.” In his nearly 20 years of experience maintaining military ships and landing craft, reliability expert Lucas Marino has discovered many…
7 tips for retaining tribal knowledge and managing cultural change
By Oliver Sturrock A surge in retirements in the coming years means a generational changing of the guard at most workplaces. Baby boomers in the workforce reached a peak size of 66 million in 1997 but have since dwindled to 41 million as of 2017, according to a Pew Research Center analysis1. Their ages in…