Articles tagged with 'Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and PM Optimisation (PMO)'

The amount of effort required to implement a revised optimised maintenance program is often underestimated.

In preventive maintenance optimisation, the key objective is to review the current PM program, starting by assembling all of the tasks that it consists of.

Let's compare reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and preventive maintenance optimisation (PMO), and determine which approach is best for you.

This video introduces the PF Interval: one of the core principles that underpins reliability centred maintenance and preventive maintenance program development.

In this short video we give 4 practical tips that can help you to improve the productivity of your maintenance function.

It doesn’t matter where in the organisation structure you are, you have the capability to influence others - and this is at the core of leadership.

Reliability engineers should be focused on guidance, analysis and improvement - not on managing the day-to-day execution of maintenance tasks.

It's ideal to embed continuous improvement of your preventive maintenance program as part of day to day business. Let's discuss how to make that happen.

The 5 Whys technique offers a simple, effective way to uncover the root of an issue. It is best used in troubleshooting and quality-improvement initiatives.

Let's use the example of apron feeder maintenance to illustrate how you might develop a better maintenance strategy for your key assets.

Most maintenance organisations are looking to move from a repair-focused to reliability-focused culture, but how can we shift from one to the other?

Review your preventive maintenance tasks. Commission a PMO process for your plant and equipment. You may be surprised at how much maintenance you don’t need to be doing.

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a powerful methodology which can drive significant improvements in equipment reliability and plant performance.

With real-time asset health monitoring equipment, and the advent of predictive analytics and big data, is the PF Interval really relevant anymore?

Let's think more broadly about factors that influence maintenance productivity, including the other departments that interact with maintenance.

Changing organisational culture is difficult and takes considerable time. Let's discuss the methods of leadership and performance measures that can help.

Let's explore a streamlined approach for determining equipment criticality, which achieves the desired results while consuming less of your time.

If your maintenance function is already succeeding, there are three key areas in which continuous improvement can further improve maintenance productivity.

Most organisations identify "critical" assets extremely poorly, and the effort that they put into these assessments is mostly wasted. Let’s examine why.

Once we’ve determined the work that needs to be done, the work needs to be executed efficiently and effectively to get the best from our limited resources.

Even with mature preventive maintenance programs, there are opportunities to reduce maintenance time while simultaneously improving performance and reliability.

Let's explore a range of alternative approaches for organisations and individuals to use when developing and optimising preventive maintenance programs.

Here are four core concepts which apply to the development of effective preventive maintenance programs, no matter what approach you use.

Many asset intensive companies do not understand that the principles of measuring productivity can be applied internally to their maintenance programs.

Let's review the issues associated with template maintenance plans, to ensure that you achieve lower cost, higher reliability, and higher availability.