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The Unsung Heroes: Maintenance Planners & Schedulers

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Effective maintenance planning and schedulingare critical components of a successful maintenance organization.The maintenance planning and maintenance scheduling functions serve as thelogistical glue that enables maintenance to build professional working relationships with all other corporate departments and facilitate the shift from a reactive to a proactive environment.

Despite its importance, thecontributions of maintenance planners and schedulers are often overlooked in the hustle and bustle of modern maintenance organizations. By recognizing the valuable roles that these individuals play and empowering them with the right tools and support, organizations can transform their maintenance processes.

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5 Tactics to Turnaround a Reactive Maintenance Culture

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The notifications keep rolling in and yourplant maintenance team is stretched thin to keep production in business.You know you need to get ahead of the madness, but thebreakdowns and ad hoc requestskeep taking precedence and the backlog is ever-growing. If you can relate to this situation, then it’stime to tackle some strategies to turn the situation around.In this article,we’ll cover thecauses of areactive maintenance culture andoutline several effectiveSAPplant maintenance strategies toget started on the path to reliability.

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Get a Return on your Mobile Maintenance Solution Investment Without Cutting Jobs

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Today’s organizations are under more pressure than ever to improve productivity while reducing their operating costs to boost their bottom lines. But profitability does not have to come at the expense of forgoing investments in digital transformation solutions or cutting maintenance jobs. With today’s skilled labor shortage, you need to optimize the use of your limited staffing.

A mobile maintenance solution can help organizations to cost-effectively transform their maintenance departments while retaining valuable human resources. Read about how the return on investment in purchasing a solution can be secured without counting on a reduction in headcount from the productivity gains.

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Why Work with an ISO 27001 Compliant EAM Solution Vendor?

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To achieve digital transformation in industrial maintenance processes, organizations often need to integrate third-partysoftwareinto theirlegacy systems, like SAP EAM. Yet with costly data breaches increasing in both frequency and scope, it can be difficult to entrust third parties with sensitive data.However, bychoosing to work with an ISO 27001compliantEAM solution vendoryou can be assured that the vendor maintains the highest level of security practices and procedures.

Learn why it is crucial to choose an ISO 27001compliantEAM solution vendorfor your business.

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5 Tips for an Effective Maintenance Department Structure

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Business success doesn’t occur in a vacuum – when an organization is running like an efficient, finely tuned machine, that’s a good indication that the maintenance department is working its magic away from the spotlight. Put simply, an effective maintenance department structure is key to organizational success.

Understanding the importance of your maintenance department is easy. Ensuring that the moving parts of said department are firing on all cylinders to keep your assets performing at peak levels presents more of a challenge. In most cases, optimal maintenance department structure starts with good organizational design. With this article, we’re going to explore some ways that you can achieve this moving forward.

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3 Strategies to Prevent Downtime Through Plant Maintenance

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Unplanned downtime can cost manufacturing plants billions of dollars each year. These costs include both tangible and intangible expenses. Knowing the true costs of downtime is crucial to making informed plant maintenance decisions. Moreover, identifying some of the common causes of unplanned downtime allows organizations to act proactively rather than reactively.

In this article, we will explore some of the common causes ofunplanneddowntime and the associated costs. We will conclude with a discussion of 3 strategiestoprevent unplanned downtimethrough plant maintenance.

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Effective Change Management to Avoid Pilot Purgatory, Part 3: Technology

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In this 3-part series, we have been covering strategies for maintenance operations teams to avoid pilot purgatory based on the PPT framework (People-Process-Technology). Just a reminder, pilot purgatory is about getting stalled in the pilot or testing phase of new technology, and therefore not able to show results and scale the deployment. So far,we have coveredPeopleandProcesses.This isthe last article in our seriesand the focus is onhow to choose and implementthe righttechnologyfor effective change managementto avoid pilot purgatory.

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Effective Change Management to Avoid Pilot Purgatory, Part 2: Processes

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What is pilot purgatory? Pilot purgatory is about getting stalled in the pilot or testing phase of a new technology, and therefore not able to show results and scale the deployment. In this 3-part series we will discuss strategies forindustrialmaintenance operations teams to avoid pilot purgatory based on the PPT framework (People-Process-Technology).Article one covered “People” so inthis article we move on to “Process” and how it’s critical to look deep into the maintenance department’s work structures and tasks as youtransform with digital solutions.

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Effective Change Management to Avoid Pilot Purgatory, Part 1: People

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What is pilot purgatory?Pilot purgatory isabout getting stalled in the pilot or testing phase of new technologylike a Mobile EAM solution,and thereforenotable toshowresultsandscalethe deployment.In this 3-part series, we willdiscuss strategiesfor maintenance operations teamsto avoid pilot purgatory based on the PPT framework (People-Process-Technology).This piece will discusseffective change managementby addressingPeople, theirmindsets,andtheirrole in the change.

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6 Food Quality Plant Maintenance Strategies to Improve Regulatory Compliance

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The food and beverage manufacturing industry is notoriously difficult and demanding. Not only does it have razor-thin profit margins, but the industry is constantlyfacingnew challengestomeet increasingcustomer demands. Food manufacturers are also under constant regulation – and with good reason. Careless mistakes could lead to serioushealthandlegalconsequences. The only way to keep up is tokeep equipmentsanitary and properly functioningat all times.

In this article, we discuss the topplant maintenancechallenges faced bythe food and beverage industry, as well as6essentialstrategiestostrengthen preventive maintenance plansandensuresafety andregulatory compliance.

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