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Bryan Christiansen — Active Contributor

Author of CMMS and Reliability articles.


This author's archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.

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5 Ways To Reduce Your Overall Maintenance Workload

5 Ways To Reduce Your Overall Maintenance Workload

Maintenance of different equipment within a facility remains a core enabler of improved productivity and efficiency of plant processes. Poor maintenance practices lead to machine downtime, increased operational costs, and increased maintenance workloads.

Reducing maintenance workload can’t be done overnight, but it is a goal worth pursuing. Less maintenance work performed (without an increase in reactive maintenance work) means less resources spent – fewer spare parts used, less overtime work, and improved employee satisfaction that can actually increase the average quality of performed maintenance work.

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Filed Under: Articles, CMMS and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: CMMS, maintenance scheduling, Predictive Maintenance

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5 Ways To Improve Reliability Of Performed Maintenance Work

5 Ways To Improve Reliability Of Performed Maintenance Work

Improving the reliability of performed maintenance work helps in the refinement and improvement of policies that shape a cost-effective maintenance strategy that aims to address dominant causes of asset failure.

Before we continue, we have to define how reliable maintenance looks like. In the context of this article, we will define it as consistently performing adequate maintenance in the required time frame. In other words, it means performing good maintenance work while respecting due dates.

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Using CMMS In FMEA Process

Using CMMS In FMEA Process

At first glance, a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and Failure Modes And Effects Analysis (FMEA) may appear to be worlds apart. But take a deeper dive, and it’s easy to see that they both share a common component: data. The core of any CMMS is defined by gigabytes of data that guarantee its usefulness and functionality, while the success of the systematic steps in FMEA depends on good quality data.

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Combining CMMS with Remote Asset Monitoring for World-class Maintenance

Combining CMMS with Remote Asset Monitoring for World-class Maintenance

The biggest change in asset management practices and maintenance models in the coming years will be the shift from corrective and preventive to predictive and condition-based maintenance that is built on real-time as well as historical data.

With emerging new technologies like IoT (Internet of Things) and easy access to the Internet and cloud storage capabilities, accessibility to information and remote monitoring of assets can be done anytime and from any location and device. This calls for a reliable remote monitoring setup accompanied by a robust and proven management system to track and manage all that data. And it is this combination precisely that can elevate your business to a world-class maintenance program.

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How to Streamline Emergency Maintenance with a CMMS

How to Streamline Emergency Maintenance with a CMMS

Emergency maintenance is the maintenance required when an asset suffers an unexpected functional failure. Typically, such failures can halt production lines and disrupt business operations until fixed.

Emergencies almost always happen without prior warning, and hence emergency maintenance is not one that can be preemptively scheduled – but it can definitely be planned for and efforts made to reduce its business impact when they do occur.

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Maximizing Routine Maintenance Efforts With A CMMS

Maximizing Routine Maintenance Efforts With A CMMS

Your facility asset and equipment are first and foremost a significant organizational investment. Performing routine maintenance on them is a key aspect of maintaining them in functioning order. Nothing will risk derailing production like an unexpected catastrophic failure of critical equipment – and one of the best ways to prevent that is to develop a robust routine maintenance strategy for your assets.

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How to Use CMMS to Improve OEE and TEEP

How to Use CMMS to Improve OEE and TEEP

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a widely implemented metric that characterizes the performance of a plant, and is expressed as a percentage of the total planned or scheduled production time. OEE essentially measures your plant’s performance in terms of equipment reliability and availability. It is calculated as the product of 3 factors – performance, quality, and availability:

Advanced OEE calculation

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The Importance of Accurate Data for Improving Asset Reliability

The Importance of Accurate Data for Improving Asset Reliability

Data is the most valuable commodity in today’s world, and it is no different in reliability engineering. As one of the emerging trends in maintenance space, data plays a critical role in implementing an effective RCM strategy. It is powered by an organization’s ability to integrate multiple data sources into one seamless platform designed to disseminate actionable insights from that data to its decision-makers at the right time.

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Filed Under: Articles, CMMS and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Asset Management Program, Data Management, reliability data

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How To Improve Wrench Time (Measurement) With A CMMS

How To Improve Wrench Time (Measurement) With A CMMS

As the owner or maintenance manager at a busy organization, one of your priorities will be to monitor the efficiency of your maintenance team to sustain that level of efficiency (if it’s satisfactory), or improving it (if it’s below an acceptable level). Doing this will require that, among other things, you understand what’s really going on while staff are on the job and then identify any areas for improvement.

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5 Tips For Improving RCM With A CMMS

5 Tips For Improving RCM With A CMMS

Instead of allocating time and resources trying to force the same maintenance method on every asset in your facility, reliability centered maintenance (RCM) offers you a more structured and proven approach where each piece of equipment is allocated a befitting maintenance strategy based on the results of a well-executed RCM analysis.

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How Can CMMS Help You “Straighten” The P-F Curve

How Can CMMS Help You “Straighten” The P-F Curve

In all production facilities, the success of most business operations is closely tied to the performance of their maintenance operations. On a busy plant floor, for example, all it takes is for a critical machine to breakdown mid-production and the ripple effects begin; from lost deadlines to stressed staff, wasted materials, and so on. 

Identifying exactly when an asset will fail still remains a big priority and “tools” like the p-f curve are here to guide us in the right direction.

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Emerging Trends In Maintenance Space And Their Relevance For Reliability Professionals

Emerging Trends In Maintenance Space And Their Relevance For Reliability Professionals

As we enter 2020, it’s evident that many of the changes that are sweeping through maintenance management will continue. The major push behind these changes includes the need for improved resource allocation, optimization of capacity, and increased safety performance/compliance.

With that in mind, this is an ideal time to review some of the biggest topics and trends in maintenance that are shaping maintenance practices and consider their relevance for reliability professionals.

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How Can CMMS Support Your Predictive Maintenance Efforts

How Can CMMS Support Your Predictive Maintenance Efforts

With industry statistics like the one from a joint study by the Wall Street Journal and Emerson, it’s no wonder that more manufacturers are looking for ways to proactively handle unplanned machine downtime. Among several issues discussed, the study states that unplanned downtime costs manufacturers about $50 billion per year. Furthermore, it mentions that outdated maintenance programs waste resources and potentially expose staff to higher safety risks.

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The Connection Between CMMS And FMEA

The Connection Between CMMS And FMEA

Equipment failure is a reality that cuts across every industry. And when it occurs, its impact can vary from minimal inconveniences with localized damages that are easily contained and repaired, to significant incidents with damaging effects on the environment accompanied by several health and safety implications.

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Using CMMS To Improve Your Safety Management

Using CMMS To Improve Your Safety Management

Equipment is described as reliable when it functions as designed without failure. Admittedly, equipment failure of any kind is quite inconvenient especially in fast-paced environments like the manufacturing sector. However, the consequences of failure – if it were to occur – go just beyond the usual inconveniences of unplanned downtime, lost productivity, lost revenue, etc. All these are bad enough, but should equipment failure cause injury or fatality, recovering from the consequences could become an uphill task.

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