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Avoiding Best Practice Implementation Pitfalls—A view from the Plant Manager

Organizations struggle with equipment reliability despite readily available knowledge of best practices. At the same time, leaders, engineers and technicians keep searching for the new technology they can purchase to advance their results and culture by decades. Leaders are stuck in a reliability improvement loop of start, stop, and restart. Sound familiar? What is the…

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Best practice guide to condition monitoring and vibration analysis

Condition monitoring and vibration analysis are separate processes, but both are vital indicators of machine health and require the collection of accurate data to analyze issues and trends. Colin Pickett is a consultant and former Prüftechnik engineer with 35 years of reliability and vibration analysis experience. He takes us through these processes, describes what to…

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How ‘connected’ thermography builds sustainable asset health management

Asset health management programs fail more often than they succeed. In this webinar, we share the top five reasons such programs fail and how a cloud-based, connected thermography program can help overcome these challenges. Michael A. Watson, Product Application Specialist with Fluke Reliability, outlines the people, processes, and technology to build a sustainable program. A…

AIM first: Aligning your organization for a successful CMMS implementation

AIM first: Aligning your organization for a successful CMMS implementation

This presentation by CMMS deployment expert Scott Rojas of Fluke Reliability outlines the pre-implementation process we call the AIM. The AIM provides a detailed look at a company’s alignment on its business strategy and capabilities; project engineering, compliance, scoping, and other CMMS requirements; plus goals, objectives, and expected ROI. AIM seeks to reduce pitfalls that…

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Actually implementing a change

Lean management, Six Sigma, process reengineering, root cause analysis, and other techniques all provide methods for identifying the changes needed to move a business forward. But the biggest challenge has long been actually implementing the improvements. Implementation comes down to individual leaders influencing their direct reports at each level in the organization. They need to…

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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…