Category: Road to Excellence

To manage your inventory, you constantly have to juggle different data streams with difficulty… which almost becomes a guessing game.  Effective inventory management is a key element in the industrial maintenance work management process. When we reserve and consume spare parts, it becomes crucial to optimize our inventory according to the consumption of these parts.…

Do you have any problems in easily correlating data between roundtrips, the lubrication program, vibration analysis, IR thermography?     In industrial maintenance management, the maintenance strategy is executed via a work management process. This process generates an enormous amount of data from a variety of sources. Whether it’s vibration monitoring programs, oil analyses, or operator rounds,…

Unlock up to 30% savings in maintenance costs with a significant improvement in work management!1    In the field of industrial maintenance, an effective strategy is more than just training staff or defining a core strategy. The real challenge lies in the execution of the work, a process that can be broken down into six key…

Up to 50% increase in sales thanks to technical skills development in manufacturing!1    Following on from the previous article, you have now drawn up your maintenance strategy. You know which tasks to do, when, by whom and how. Now you need to ensure that your maintenance personnel are properly trained to carry out these actions.…

Increase your plant’s productivity by 25% with a well-planned maintenance strategy!    In the previous step, we discussed the criticality ranking of your assets. Now that you know which are your most critical assets, you need to build your maintenance strategy around this ranking. It’s crucial to perform the right task at the right time, by…

In the previous step of our journey towards reliability excellence, we saw how to build a proper Master Equipment List in a CMMS and what are the benefits of such a project. Depending on your site’s size, that list might contain from a few hundred to more than 20,000 functional locations.   The question now is:…

In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) have become indispensable tools for managing maintenance operations. These powerful software solutions streamline processes, increase teams’ productivity. However, the linchpin of a successful CMMS often goes unnoticed – asset master data.  Asset Master data is the cornerstone of CMMS, encompassing essential details about assets, maintenance…

Design for Reliability (DfR) is a critical approach in the world of industrial manufacturing that focuses on designing products and processes in a way that ensures prominent levels of reliability and minimizes the likelihood of failures or defects. DFR encompasses multiple elements described in the following article.  Life cycle cost Life cycle cost (LCC) is…

Best-in-class performers in the manufacturing world spend 3.5 times less money on their maintenance budget compared to the worst performers, while their assets’ availability is 14% higher. How do they achieve these results? By adopting the Maintenance & Reliability best practices. A first step in that journey is to compare your organization with the best-in-class…

A Future-proof Organization Economic growth combined with massive retirement of labor and the unprecedented pandemic beginning in 2019 led to shortage of manpower in many employment fields. In addition to the global market becoming increasingly competitive (reinforcement of Middle Eastern or Asian manufacturing, low interest rate policies, digitalization, etc.), companies in North America now face…