How to Develop a Preventive Maintenance Schedule: 5 Simple Steps
If you’re looking for a more reliable and proactive maintenance strategy, it’s time to implement a preventive maintenance schedule. While scheduling maintenance can be [...]
Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO)
Maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) refers to all actions taken to ensure that machinery, tools, and facilities are in good working order. The right [...]
What is Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM)? Stages, Benefits, & Best Practices
Proper asset lifecycle management is vital to ensuring your organization runs at peak efficiency. Asset lifecycle management (also known as lifecycle asset management) is [...]
What is Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)? CBM Maintenance Definition, Strategy, Examples
What is Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)? Condition-based maintenance, or CBM, is a maintenance strategy in which work is performed based on asset condition. Maintenance [...]
Failure Mode, Effects, & Criticality Analysis – FMECA & FMEA
Today, most manufacturing operations face time, budget, and expertise constraints. Every part of a system plays a role in the manufacturer’s success. And while [...]
DFMEA vs. PFMEA
Identifying the failure modes of processes, designs, and assets is a critical part of continuous improvement for manufacturers. Completing a failure mode and effect [...]
Understanding OOE: A Guide to Overall Operations Effectiveness
What is OOE? Overall operations effectiveness (OOE) is a metric used to measure the availability of manufacturing equipment along production lines. Unlike its counterpart, [...]
What is Corrective Maintenance? Essential Guide and Best Practices
What is Corrective Maintenance? Corrective maintenance is the process of repairing or restoring equipment and systems after failure or when a defect has been [...]
Maintainability: Key Concepts and Measures
What is Maintainability? Maintainability refers to the ease with which an asset or piece of equipment can be maintained to ensure it continues to [...]
Work Requests: A Guide for MRO Teams
What is A Work Request? A work request is a formal document or digital entry used to notify a maintenance team of a problem [...]