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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. 

 

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. 

 

7 Critical Success Factors for Storeroom Organization - Free Best Practice Webinar

This month eMaint was pleased to welcome Doug Wallace,  Materials Management Expert for Life Cycle Engineering, for their Best Practices webinar series. During this webinar Doug discussed the mission of materials management as well as the 7 critical factors for successful storeroom organization. 

The mission of Materials Management is to provide the right parts at the right time at the least possible total cost to the company. With poor storeroom organization companies face various pitfalls such as:

• Providing the wrong quantity of parts
• Holding parts with unacceptable quality
• Providing the wrong parts
• Increased costs due to unnecessary delays

However, by following the 7 critical success factors, Maintenance Departments can house materials in a safe, clean, secure and organized environment. The seven critical success factors include:

1. Infrastructure
2. Location
3. Accessibility
4. Physical Layout
5. Logical Layout
6. Visual Management
7. Space Utilization 

Missed the webinar? No worries,  learn more and check out the whole presentation here.

These CMMS Best Practices webinars are a value-added service presented by eMaint Enterprises.