Why executing maintenance correctly is critical.
Most CMMS systems answer: “What work needs to be done?” But they often don’t answer: “How should the work be ...
Category: Maintenance system
Imagine two plants with identical equipment.
Imagine two plants with identical equipment. Plant A relies on memory. Plant B relies on structured maintenance knowledge. Both hire ...
The difference between average maintenance and world-class maintenance is often the quality of instructions provided.
Most technicians are asked to perform maintenance. Very few are given the knowledge needed to perform it consistently. A work ...
Why PMs fail.
Why PMs fail. Because many PMs were never designed from failure modes. Instead, they were copied from: Good PMs answer ...
Your most important maintenance asset may not be a machine.
Your most important maintenance asset may not be a machine. It may be a person. And that’s a problem. If ...
You can achieve 100% PM compliance and still have a poor PM program.
A maintenance planner once told me: “Our PM program is over 90% compliant.” I asked a simple question: “Are the ...
Why do the same failures keep happening?
Why do the same failures keep happening? Because many organizations repair equipment but never repair the knowledge system. Machine fails.Technician ...
Most plants do not have a maintenance staffing problem
Most plants don’t have a maintenance staffing problem. They have a maintenance knowledge problem. When a machine fails, the response ...
How to Funnel Understanding of Working Principle
A strong teaching approach to working principles is to describe a top-down understanding funnel, which engineers and operators grasp very quickly ...
Plant Reliability System
Your plant deserves a reliability system, not just a reliability event. If you’ve been following this series — thank you.Here’s ...