How business intelligence (BI) software and CMMS from eMaint boost data insights
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How business intelligence (BI) software and CMMS from eMaint boost data insights

A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) provides more than a place to maintain and manage assets and workflows. It’s also a place packed with usable data that, when analyzed in detail, enable deeper opportunities for directing and improving maintenance repair and operations (MRO) decisions. In an Accelix best practices webinar (BPW), Nicole Rochelle, business intelligence…

The Daily Benefits of a Continuous Improvement Plan
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The Daily Benefits of a Continuous Improvement Plan

It’s one thing to say you’re going to do something to improve continuously every day, like exercising, is one thing. Following through is another. It takes discipline. In an Accelix best practices webinar called The Exponential Power of Daily Continuous Improvement, Calvin Williams, founder and CEO of Impruver, explores the power of daily improvement and…

The exponential power of daily improvement
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The exponential power of daily improvement

Calvin Williams has helped numerous companies build continuous improvement programs. In this webinar, he discusses the science behind daily improvement and how to use it to create a sustainable culture of continuous improvement. He relates how a 1% improvement daily amounts to 38 times better results in one year. He’ll also describe the power of…

Powerful, game-changing software for in-house cleaning and sanitization operations
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Powerful, game-changing software for in-house cleaning and sanitization operations

Learn how CleanMaint helps in-house cleaning crews embrace the digital age to deliver a higher standard of sanitization. In the current and post-COVID-19 world, this cloud-based application from the makers of eMaint upgrades planning and scheduling to handle the more rigorous demands for cleaning requests, resources, and supplies. Users can map work orders to physical…

Maintenance planning do’s and don’ts to increase your M&R team’s effectiveness
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Maintenance planning do’s and don’ts to increase your M&R team’s effectiveness

Those responsible for reliability maintenance and asset uptime should consider adding maintenance planning to your list of critical processes. That’s a major takeaway from a Fluke Reliability Best Practice Webinar in April 2020 in which reliability expert Shon Isenhour scrutinized the quality of today’s maintenance planning practices. Isenhour, a founding partner of asset management consultant…

So, your planner doesn’t plan? How to move away from unplanned maintenance
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So, your planner doesn’t plan? How to move away from unplanned maintenance

What do you mean your planner doesn’t plan? Let’s look at what a maintenance planner should do both for and with your organization. The planner role is one of the most important roles within your reliability program. However, in a recent SMRP Conference session, only 3% said their planners were truly planning work regularly. If…

Five things to do when no one can be in the plant
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Five things to do when no one can be in the plant

With many companies ordered to shut down and people ordered to stay in their homes to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, organizations and teams have had to adapt—and suddenly. If your maintenance team cannot work in your plant, what should you do? How can you leverage this unplanned downtime? We went to some Fluke Reliability…

5 ways to protect aging systems from cyberattacks
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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…