When equipment fails unexpectedly, restoring normal operations can take considerable time and money. Unplanned downtime presents significant challenges across industries, leading to lost productivity, increased costs, and decreased customer satisfaction and trust. Reducing unplanned downtime requires a proactive approach. If you're wondering how to reduce unplanned downtime, strategic planning and adherence to best practices will be essential. This article will explain unplanned downtime and offer recommendations for reducing it effectively. Additionally, we'll discuss how LLumin’s Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS+) can help your organization manage and prevent it. What Is Unplanned Downtime? Before we start, it will be important to...

Maintenance and asset management will vary by industry. However, certain effective best practices stay fairly consistent. In this article, we will explain why it’s important to maintain equipment reliability and provide some key tips and best practices for improving it. Further, we will discuss the advantages of using LLumin's Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS+) software, which can help you fully optimize your maintenance operations approach. Tips for Improving Equipment Reliability Before exploring ways to improve equipment reliability, we should discuss its importance. Unreliable equipment often results in lower productivity, higher safety risks, and costly emergency repairs. Additionally, unexpected breakdowns, downtime,...

Effective maintenance inventory management will be essential if your company relies on machinery and equipment to keep daily operations running. Without it, keeping unexpected downtime and delays at bay will be extremely challenging.  Inventory management involves the careful organization, tracking, and controlling of spare parts, tools, and other materials required for maintenance and repair. Effective management will reduce the likelihood of excess stock or stockouts, ensuring that the right parts are always available at the right time. If you want to improve your own MRO and Tool inventory management practices, this article will discuss best practices you can use to...

An effective maintenance management strategy can mean the difference between remaining competitive or falling behind in today's competitive marketplace. Minimizing downtime, minimizing costs, and increasing the safety, reliability, and lifespan of equipment and assets may appear unattainable if your organization is primarily reactive in its approach to maintenance. This article will look at ways you can improve your maintenance strategy. We will discuss well-known, essential best practices you can use to get results and how LLumin's Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS+) can provide the features and tools your maintenance team needs to succeed. Types of Maintenance Strategies Maintenance strategies range...

In today's asset-intensive industrial environment, efficiency and strategic foresight stand at the forefront of operational success. The challenge of maintaining functional integrity across a wide array of assets, from HVAC units to essential machinery, demands more than a standard maintenance strategy. Reactive approaches that rely on spreadsheets and manual logs are increasingly inadequate in meeting the complex demands of modern organizations. This is precisely where computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) can make a huge impact. But what is CMMS software? This guide will dive deep into the core of CMMS systems, shedding light on the types and benefits of CMMS...

Maintenance and engineering managers continually look for ways to improve performance. One way to achieve this is by measuring total effective equipment performance (TEEP) in your facility. TEEP is one of several important performance metrics used in manufacturing to assess productivity. Today, we will define TEEP, explain why it is important, and show how plant managers calculate it. We'll also review two other important performance metrics, including:  Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)  Overall operations effectiveness (OOE)  TEEP Metrics Comparison TEEP TEEP is a measurement of potential operational performance levels, which can help determine the unused potential within their operations and make...

A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is a web-based application that gives industries better control over their assets, especially those critical to their operations or production processes. The software application is used to help engineers, maintenance teams, and operations managers monitor the real-time status of each machine or asset that impacts their processes and then identify and prioritize those that may lead to failure, as well as those that are approaching end-of-life based on the cost of ownership, obsolescence or other factors.  The uses and potential positive impacts a CMMS can have on an organization are endless. However, choosing the...

Managing spare parts, tooling, and MRO inventory effectively can be a big challenge. However, powerful computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) like LLumin's CMMS+ have revolutionized how organizations overcome it. An advanced CMMS inventory management system that leverages the latest technology can save organizations time, reduce costs, and free them up to focus their energy and resources on other important initiatives. Today we will discuss how the right CMMS can help organizations streamline and automate their maintenance and operations-related inventory and materials management processes. We will also explain how LLumin's CMMS+ can track inventory levels in real-time, automatically order replacement inventory...

Maintenance costs are necessary business expenses used to keep assets in good working condition. Many organizations rely on cost analysis and management to make responsible financial decisions, reduce waste, and increase efficiency. Understanding more about these costs can help your organization make better, more strategic asset management decisions. This article will discuss some practical ways to manage and reduce maintenance costs. We'll also discuss how LLumin's CMMS+ can help you manage assets, optimize maintenance, and reduce costs in your organization. Understanding Maintenance Costs Any organization that needs to maintain equipment, property, vehicles, and other expensive assets will incur some type...

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS+) can help organizations streamline maintenance operations with its core benefits, which include condition-monitoring of equipment health and performance, digitizing maintenance tasks, automating work orders, and advanced data analytics. It can also help you track and improve CMMS KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). With LLumin, you can easily track important KPIs such as Maintenance Costs, Work Order Completion Rate, Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), and more. Our system provides a fully customizable and detailed view of your KPI dashboards, helping your maintenance team make more informed decisions to optimize schedules, reduce downtime, and control costs.  In this...