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Learn The Secrets of Great PM Programs

Join us this Friday, January 20th as eMaint presents a free best practices webinar on effective approaches to PM and PdM tasking, operating context, and scheduling frequencies. 

Using concepts from RCM2 and Maintenance task analysis learn about:

• Failure modes
• Total and partial failures
• Equipment failure curves
• Mining the equipment history to better understand how to minimize your equipment failures. 

The webinar will be hosted by Jeff Shiver, CMRP and Certified RCM2 Practioner with the Aladon Network. 

If you are tired of losing the Preventive Maintenance game or just want to share the secrets of great PM programs with your organization, REGISTER NOW. 

To view our extensive library of best practices recordings, click here. 

 

Plant Services Featured Article: "Behind the Glass"

eMaint is proud to share that Boyd Helm, Maintenance Manager at Cardinal Glass and eMaint X3 CMMS user, has been featured in the December issue of Plant Services for his success with eMaint's CMMS system.

Boyd recently hosted eMaint's User Group Summit in Buford, Georgia and shared his story with other X3 users while providing a tour of Cardinal's world-class manufacturing facility. 

eMaint and Boyd have developed a strong partnership that has helped others using a CMMS understand the true benefits and possibilities of a maintenance management system.

The article "Behind The Glass" discusses how with the help of a CMMS and stronger team communication, Boyd was able to shrink downtime to less than 1%, reduce labor hours by 43%, decrease overtime by 60%, and increase daily production by 40%. This resulted in a strong operating profit of 45%, after several unprofitable years. 

To read the whole story click here. 

eMaint enjoys sharing the success of their customers and often highlights how their customers utilize X3 to make a difference at their organization. To read additional customer success stories visit eMaint's case study page. 

    

What You Missed at eMaint's December User Group Summit

On December 7-8, 2011, a group of eMaint team members joined 35 customers at the User Group Summit in Buford, Georgia.  The two-day event was hosted at the Cardinal Glass manufacturing plant and consisted of Best Practices and case study presentations, a plant tour of Cardinal's world class manufacturing facility, eMaint X3 CMMS product training sessions, and networking opportunities.

Representing eMaint were product specialists Alex Allen and Kevin Cronin, Customer Success Manager Lauren Boothe, Marketing Director Rona Palmer, VP of Business Development Gene Pargas, and Senior Developer David Vaughan.

The eMaint team was proud to be joined by clients from 19 organizations across the United States. Some companies represented at the User Group Summit were:

• ABC Supply
• Maxum Petroleum 
• Fiamm Energy 
• U.S. Pipe and Foundry 
• XTO Energy
• DBi Services
• Crown, Cork & Seal 
• PolyOne 

In addition, Randy Pound,  President of Solved Inc., spoke with attendees about reliable planning and scheduling within their maintenance operations. He discusses in detail the reliability roles and responsibilities, reliability principles of excellence, and reviews 10 assessment areas.

eMaint would also like to give a special thanks to Boyd Helm, Maintenance Manager of Cardinal Glass, who provided the facility, plant-tour and case study presentation throughout the Summit. 

This User Group Summit further reinforced eMaint's continued dedication to providing excellent customer service and unique learning opportunities. eMaint received strong positive feedback from post-summit evaluations including:

• 76% of attendees gained high to significant value from the content of the Summit. 
• 47.6% of attendees significantly increased their ability to use the eMaint system.
• 95.1% of attendees believed the User Group Summit will help them improve maintenance operations at their organization. 
• 89% of attendees gained value from the best practices and case study presentations.

Thank you for all those who attended this December's User Group Summit. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming Summits located throughout the country. 

Outages - Why Teamwork is Key To Success

Concerned about preparing for an upcoming outage?  The factor that will most likely lead to a schedule overrun is the transition period along the critical path. During these hand offs communication is key. Each individual has a different perspective and making sure the team works together is vital to ensuring minimal time is lost during a shutdown and that everyone adheres to the schedule. Every minute of downtime during an outage is money lost. To ensure success every department should have these roles defined before going into an outage:

Operations & Maintenance Coordinator - Maintains outage leadership during transition periods.

Outage Plan Manager -  Sole responsibility is to manage the plan.

Reliability Supervisors - Functional coverage of reliability tasks.

Operations Supervisors - Geographic coverage of all tasks.

Task Leaders - Ensures the task is done professionally and on-time.

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By defining key roles and responsibilities, maintenance departments will experience key benefits such as ensuring the plan is well-done and well-executed, improving timeliness of communication, engaging more people effectively, and keeping momentum high throughout the outage. 

You can view the entire recording of eMaint's Best Practices Webinar on Planning and Scheduling for Outages presented by Randy Pound here.

 

How To Handle The Before, During and After of Any Maintenance Outage

This month Randy Pound, President and CEO of Solved Inc., hosted eMaint's monthly Best Practices Webinar on Planning, Scheduling and Executing Outages.

Outages or shutdowns are the most critical aspect of maintenance reliability. Through careful planning and standardization, any organization can excel at managing outages. Randy Pound  runs through some key steps to consider before, during and after an outage. 

First, the reliability and production team must work together not only during an outage but also through daily activities. Performing as one team at all times will lead any company to success. 

Each organization should consider the following:

Before an outage:

    - Make sure each individual has the applied skills to handle their aspect of the outage

    - Make sure that the available parts are fit for the service

    -Have each technician ready to jump in when equipment is shut down in order to reduce loss of profitability

During an outage:

    - Use available technicians that are skilled to handle each specific outage

    - Standardize work to increase efficiency with each shutdown 

    -Make sure to take down accurate measurements

After an outage:

    - Analyze measurements taken during outage

    -Write down best practices that you experienced during an outage

    -Work through team building activities

 

Watch the free video recording now for a more in depth view at planning, scheduling and executing outages.

Justify Your CMMS With This Month's Free Best Practice Webinar

Wednesday, August 17th, Ralph Peters, President of Maintenance Excellence Institute, will be following up on the popular Best Practices Webinar, "Benchmarking Your CMMS", with additional material on cost justifying a CMMS system. 

Ralph W. "Pete" Peters will be discussing detailed CMMS justification factors from his book, Maintenance Benchmarking and Best Practices: A Profit and Customer-Centered Approach, with a real life case study from Argentina's largest steel maker, SIDERAR.

The case study will document the CMMS evaluation/selection process used, the projected benefits and ROI to cost justify system implementation and to validate actual results over time. For current users you will understand how to gain better value from an existing system and validate current ROI to top leaders.

Best Practices are enhanced by an effective new CMMS or an improved existing CMMS. You will learn: 

• 7 key steps for gaining maximum value from a system
• developing economic justification
• implementing key best practices
• improving overall craft productivity.

Whether you looking to purchase a CMMS or are a veteran user, you and your team can benefit from Ralph Peters' overview of CMMS selection, justification, and best practices enhancement from what is your "maintenance business system" for profit and customer service. 

Register Now for this informative session on August 17th at 1PM Eastern Time.

NOTE: One  attendee will be selected at random and will receive a free signed copy of Ralph Peters book,Maintenance Benchmarking and Best Practices: A Profit and Customer-Centered Approach. 

 

Learn How To Organize Your Storeroom For Success With a Free Best Practices Webinar

Join eMaint TOMORROW in welcoming Doug Wallace, Materials Management Expert for Life Cycle Engineering, as he delivers this month’s Best Practice webinar “Organize Your Storeroom For Success.”

Does your storeroom contribute to the success of your Materials Management personnel?

Successful Materials Management is achieved by providing the right parts at the right time at the least possible total cost to the company. Personnel must rely on storeroom organization to achieve key objectives such as efficient procurement and storeroom processes, warehouse practices, and inventory controls.

Tune into this webinar to find out exactly where your storeroom challenges lie, and hear some of the suggestions designed to fix or even prevent them. 

Learn how the storeroom contributes to the success (or failure) of Materials Management personnel in

meeting the expectations of your customers in Maintenance and Operations.

Examine potential pitfalls such as:

The infrastructure of the storeroom itself

• The infrastructure of the storeroom itself
• Location of the storeroom
• Accessibility to the storeroom
• Physical Layout within the storeroom

See how Bin Identification schemes, Visual Management Techniques, Space Utilization, and Handling Equipment can aid in avoiding or correcting area issues.

Register now or click here to watch additional free best practice webinars. 

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History adds another impressive exhibit to their storied history: eMaint X3 Software

The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, a one-of-the-kind atomic and nuclear museum, located in Albuquerque, NM has chosen eMaint Enterprise's X3 CMMS system to aid in their asset management. The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (NMNSH) is the only museum in the United States that is both a Smithsonian affiliate and a congressionally chartered museum in their field.  The NMNSH has been providing the public with various exhibits and riveting history, specializing in the Atomic Age, since 1969. The museum prides itself in being able to illustrate the the groundbreaking transition in nuclear science from nuclear warfare development to the more peaceful nuclear energy technology of today.

Greg Shuman, the Deputy Director of NMNSH, chose eMaint Enterprise as his CMMS solution because of eMaint's Asset and Inventory Management capabilities.  In particular, Greg saw the benefits of being able to use eMaint's Work Orders and Preventive Maintenance Management software for managing the work of outside contractors.  The team at eMaint would like to welcome Greg Shuman and the staff at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History to the family of eMaint users.