Even if your maintenance and reliability team must work at home during COVID-19, progress on your reliability journey does not have to stop. You can develop a pilot program to roll out condition monitoring when plants are allowed to reopen under new guidelines. A pilot program enables you to test feasibility, refine as necessary, demonstrate…
Traditional supply chain management practices have emphasized stringent, just-in-time inventory and cost controls. With the current disruptions to manufacturing and shipping logistics, much has changed. Continuity has become the No. 1 priority. In other words, with supply chains now less predictable and a longer wait time for getting parts in-house, you must do whatever you…
Amid an overwhelming threat to physical and economic health, organizations are finding new ways to maintain business continuity. That is especially true for industrial maintenance and reliability groups that have already adopted new cloud-based technologies for asset monitoring, maintenance tracking, workflow management, and reporting. Many are in decent shape to maintain their operations within the…
In today’s manufacturing world, the impact of downtime is pretty clearly understood at the top of the food chain. But what about the benefits of uptime, preventive maintenance, or end-to-end connectivity? How do you, as a maintenance and reliability professional, make a case for long-term planning if there aren’t any concrete short-term financial gains? Suzane…
Due to the extraordinary times, companies must consider inventory management from a risk perspective more than ever as the current situation severely stresses the supply chain. In this webinar, you’ll learn about maintenance strategies that maximize the equipment uptime and reduce the need for emergency parts replacement during and after a pandemic. The webinar also…
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…