Equipment Maintenance
How to Implement Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
We’ve previously written about Proactive Versus Reactive Maintenance and decided to build on that with a practice called Reliability Centered Maintenance. We will show you the steps and benefits to implementing it in your organization. What is Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)? RCM is the practice of focusing on the reliability of your equipment rather than…
Read MorePredictive Maintenance of Rotating Equipment
From food manufacturers to chemical plants, a typical industrial plant may have dozens to hundreds of pieces of rotating equipment. These include pumps, motors, gearboxes, turbines, fans, and more. Many of these pieces of equipment are crucial to the operation of the plant, and even non-essential assets have an important purpose to serve. When one…
Read MoreMachine Alignment is Essential to Proactive Maintenance
According to the Department of Commerce, there about 12.4 million electric motors in use in industrial operations across the United States that operate at 1hp and above. Approximately 25% of these motors will fail in the coming year. Machine alignment can help those motors run more efficiently, which saves costs in energy consumption and reduces…
Read MoreCan Effective Preventive Maintenance Scheduling Reduce Downtime?
Industries often operate 24 hours per day to maximize production, which causes them to push machines to their limits. The rate of machine part failure is also increasing as a result. Demand has increased for preventive maintenance (PM), but it requires complex coordination with production, maintenance, and management departments. Below we will discuss the separation…
Read MoreProactive Versus Reactive Maintenance
Many organizations are realizing the benefits of embracing a proactive maintenance approach. Others still rely heavily on a reactive maintenance strategy, or wait for problems to arise before dealing with them. This ultimately leads to reduced asset insight, improper planning, time delays, unexpected costs, and a resulting inefficient maintenance plan. It is important to find…
Read More6 Steps to Optimize Maintenance Practices
Plant owners across the globe are aware Lean maintenance practices can improve production, minimize downtime, and reduce costs. Unfortunately, as much as 90% of performed maintenance in the United States is done reactively, instead of proactively. Reasons for this include aging equipment, scarcity of spare parts, and the increasingly higher demand in manufacturing speed. We…
Read MoreTips For Improvement in Maintenance Programs
Asset utilization, equipment capacity, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) are the responsibility of many departments, as well as the entire organization. It focuses on developing your assets to produce the greatest possible capacity. This is achieved through performance efficiency, measuring and managing availability, and the rate of quality. Plants that truly want to maximize their…
Read More4 Maintenance Tips to Extend Equipment Life and ROI
Heavy machinery, especially in oil and gas, mining, farming, or other industrial applications, requires regular maintenance to ensure they continue working reliably. When large machinery is poorly maintained, it not only runs inefficiently, but is also more likely to breakdown and cost you thousands – not to mention that faulty equipment can pose a serious…
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