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Weak work order management can turn temporary repairs into permanent problems. Stronger maintenance processes help plants avoid missed follow-up work or ignored failure reports.
AI Assistant helps customers search maintenance records, assess equipment risks and compare service needs across assets and locations. Artikkeli Konecranes Launches AI Assistant for Maintenance and Lifecycle Planning julkaistiin ensimmäisen kerran Maintworld.
Effective shutdown planning starts early. Joe Kuhn explains how to scope maintenance jobs, verify parts, anticipate delays and coordinate resources.
Effective job plan naming conventions help maintenance planners find reusable plans and improve maintenance execution across industrial assets.
From hunting down phantom failures to fighting haunted production, find out which maintenance personality you become when things go bump in the plant.
Preventive maintenance boils down to a single question: When should we act before a failure acts on us? Two dominant schools of thought answer differently. A time-based replacement program schedules service after a fixed number of hours, cycles, or calendar days, betting that history is a good proxy for future risk. A condition-based detection program […] The post Preventive maintenance: Replacement vs. Detection app
OEM-recommended fluids and routine sampling help protect compressors from wear, contamination, overheating and unplanned downtime.
Why Asset Criticality Is About Consequences, Not the Equipment In last week’s edition, we explored why failure rate alone is not enough to determine which spare parts should be stocked. Failure data tells us how often equipment is expected to fail. But before deciding maintenance strategies, inspection frequencies, or spare parts inventory, we must answer […] The post What Makes an Asset Critical? appeared first on A
There is a particular kind of silence on the plant floor that experienced operators learn to distrust. Not the silence of a shutdown: that one is expected. This is the silence of a machine that is still running, still producing, still counting as “available” on every dashboard, but slowly, quietly, building toward a failure that […] The post Your Equipment Is Telling You It’s About to Fail – Are You Listening? appear
Understanding Failure Accumulation in Repairable Systems Many assets are repaired and returned to service repeatedly throughout their operating life. Motorized windshield wiper systems used on heavy-duty trucks are one example. For these repairable systems, the engineering challenge is to compare designs, evaluate performance, and estimate future maintenance demand. The nonparametric growth curve measures the average
Good practices for better performance from production and maintenance Good practices for better performance from production and maintenance. The journey to world-class production performance is a partnership effort from the Engineering, Production and Maintenance groups in an organisation. It requires involving them in improving business quality systems and assuring individual’s work quality. Improving Maintenance an
We follow the schedule religiously. We still have the same failures. At some point you have to ask whether the schedule is based on evidence or habit. Is Preventive Maintenance Actually Preventing Anything in Your Plant? I want to start with a question that sounds simple but is rarely asked honestly in African plants. When […] The post Is Preventive Maintenance Actually Preventing Anything in Your Plant? appeared fir
In Part 1, we explored the first question that should guide every maintenance decision: What failure are we trying to manage? We concluded that physical failures generally originate from three fundamental processes: Understanding the failure process is essential, but it is only part of the picture. The type of asset being managed also influences maintenance […] The post Part 2: What Types of Assets Are We Managing? a
Why Technical Training Alone Does Not Create Effective General Inspection The missing translation layer in Autonomous Maintenance is effective, hands-on application. Many organizations struggle with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) because of the transition of equipment-care responsibilities between Maintenance (PM Pillar) and Operations (AM Pillar). One of the first major challenges often occurs when operators mov
More Than Any Equipment Failure Ever Will The Machine Did Not Fail. The Handover Did. Nobody writes “poor communication” in the incident report. They write equipment failure. They write operator error. They write process deviation. They write unexpected shutdown. The language is always technical, always focused on the machine, always pointed at something physical that […] The post Poor Communication is Costing Your P