Category: Road to Excellence

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…