Understanding Idle Time: Track & Reduce Waste
In a manufacturing environment, operational efficiency relies on monitoring and reducing idle time. With proper maintenance planning, you can ensure your assets maximize time [...]
What is Maintenance Scheduling? 6 Easy Steps for PM Schedules
Regular maintenance is required to keep all assets at peak operating performance, but that’s easier said than done. A good maintenance strategy is needed [...]
A Guide to Common Maintenance Acronyms & Abbreviations
Maintenance Acronyms: Common Abbreviations and Their Meanings The world of maintenance is already complex, even before conversations get filled with enough abbreviations to make [...]
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 and reliability [...]
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, [...]