At MillerCoors’ Golden, Colorado facility—the third-largest brewery in America—maintenance planners used to joke about “white horse wins.” When a critical machine went down, someone would ride in with a last-minute motor, flown in first class,…
How to Identify Issues and Implement a Smarter Maintenance Strategy According to Deloitte research1, poor maintenance strategies can reduce a plant’s productive capacity by 5 to 20 percent. This is a massive blow to efficiency,…
The industrial sector has come a long way since the early days of machine maintenance, where readings were jotted down in a notebook and mechanical parts were replaced when they broke down. Today, industrial organizations…
Imagine this all too common maintenance scenario: A technician receives a work order but cannot head straight to the equipment. Instead, they must walk back to the office, log into a desktop computer, and print…
Tracking maintenance performance without clear KPIs is like navigating without a map—you might be moving forward, but are you headed in the right direction? Without solid data, maintenance teams struggle to optimize resources, improve efficiency,…
The Evolution of Maintenance Strategies On a cool November evening in 1965, nearly 30 million people across the northeastern United States and Canada were plunged into darkness. The cause? A single overworked protective relay and…
If you’re like many facility and plant managers, deciding whether or not to implement a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) can seem daunting – and oftentimes it is. But it shouldn’t be! This frequently asked…
ROI (Return on Investment) is one of the most important factors for the long-term success of any business. Manufacturing companies around the world face numerous challenges, with maintenance being one of the most significant. 5…
The notion of sustainable development served as the premise for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. The summit was the first global attempt to establish action plans and…
In the manufacturing sector, reactive maintenance used to be the norm, especially before the 21st century. Now, we are in the fourth industrial era. Planned or proactive maintenance is now preferred by many organizations due…