by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Sep 19, 2021 | Planning & Scheduling, RAM Tools & Methods
A key element of successful planning and scheduling in plants and facilities is to understand and ensure that critical assets are identified and maintained with higher priority than non-critical ones. Recognizing a critical asset, though, will depend on how a...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, Principal, T.A. Cook, Editor | Aug 2, 2021 | Asset Management, Planning & Scheduling
This week’s article on Overall Materials Effectiveness (OME) concludes our seven-part series on leading metrics that drive proactive behaviors for maintenance and reliability. Along with Overall Planning Effectiveness (OPE), and Overall Scheduling Effectiveness...
by Bob Williamson, CMRP, CPMM, MIAM, Editor | Aug 2, 2021 | Planning & Scheduling, Workforce Issues
I’ve shared this story elsewhere over the years, in print and in presentations. That doesn’t matter. The lessons learned from it are worth repeating. As I have often mentioned, motorsports racing, and pit-crew methods can provide invaluable insights for...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, Principal, T.A. Cook, Editor | Jul 26, 2021 | Asset Management, Planning & Scheduling
In this week’s edition of The RAM Review, we continue our focus on proactive leading metrics. Last week, we addressed Overall Planning Effectiveness (OPE), which helps drive down Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and drive up work quality. This week, as the above title...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, Principal, T.A. Cook, Editor | Jul 12, 2021 | Asset Management, Planning & Scheduling
My recent articles on leading metrics designed to drive proactive behaviors at a site have focused on improving Mean Time Between/ To Failure (MTBF/MTTF) of plant assets. These included Overall Inspection Effectiveness (OIE), Overall Lubrication Effectiveness (OLE),...
by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Oct 31, 2020 | Lubrication Corner, Planning & Scheduling
Talking about the weather is a national pastime. It would appear we are obsessed with it. Yet, many maintenance organizations are often poorly positioned to deal with the problems that weather changes pose for their facilities and machinery, especially when cold...
by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Sep 25, 2020 | Asset Management, Planning & Scheduling
As the American singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett observed, “Without geography, you are nowhere!” Making sense of any production or maintenance workflow, process or procedure requires a textual map in the form of a diagram, visual representation, or an ordered text list...
by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Sep 18, 2020 | Asset Management, Planning & Scheduling
When a maintenance-work request reaches the desk of the planner, his or her first action item is to review the request and determine the priority of the work. This determination will influence whether the planner takes immediate action (Emergency Response) or queues...
by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Sep 4, 2020 | Planning & Scheduling, RAM Tools & Methods
W. Edwards Deming once stated, “In God we trust, all others must bring data!” For some, data is a four-letter word, and the value of collecting and recording it and the evidence associated with an asset failure event is often poorly understood. Old-school thinking...
by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Aug 29, 2020 | Planning & Scheduling, RAM Tools & Methods
Developing objective and effective work instruction is a science. The quality of work performed by a maintainer when following a planner’s instruction will vary greatly depending on the objective requirement set within each line of instruction. If direction is vague,...
