Maintenance Management Blogs
Protecting Your Assets With Maintenance Management Systems
Maintenance management is essential for protecting and maintaining a company’s physical assets and resources. Enterprise organizations use maintenance management systems to track equipment, workers, and inventory, ultimately saving money on repairs, unnecessary maintenance, and unplanned downtime while ensuring maximum productivity and safety. Our intent here is to help maintenance professionals understand more about maintenance management…
Read MoreWhat Is Total Productive Maintenance? The Ultimate Guide
What is a maintenance work order? Work orders, whether in paper or digital format, are the foundation of a company’s maintenance operations. A work order contains all of the information required to perform maintenance tasks.
Read MoreUnderstanding and Applying Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
What is a maintenance work order? Work orders, whether in paper or digital format, are the foundation of a company’s maintenance operations. A work order contains all of the information required to perform maintenance tasks.
Read MoreCMMS Benefits That Will Improve Maintenance Operations & Efficiency
When developing effective facility operations strategies, facility management tactics and practices are an essential part of the planning process. While facility managers have traditionally relied on preventive maintenance, as a proactive asset management methodology, there is a significant shift to predictive maintenance (PdM) due to real-time data becoming more prevalent, and machine learning providing better insights into potential areas of risk.
Read MoreMean Time Between Failure (MTBF) And MTTR: A Complete Guide
The metric MTBF is the reliability of a machine. MTTR speaks to logistics required around bringing the asset back up to running status and is a metric that contributes to the criticality and consequence of the asset in an unplanned down state.
Read MoreMachine downtime truly hurts the food and beverage sector—here’s how to reduce it by 40 percent
Downtime significantly impacts the bottom line in manufacturing—costing companies as much as $260,000 per hour, according to Aberdeen Research. Unplanned downtime is often a result of knowledge gaps involved with machine/shift changeover or machine operations directly. Training and experience significantly improve these areas of operations inefficiencies. Unplanned machine downtime is another culprit. Critical machinery that breaks…
Read MoreThe Transformative Journey Toward Machine as a Service (MaaS)
A conversation with Edward Garibian, CEO of Llumin in Springfield, MA Interviewer: Ed, before I ask you a few questions about the transformative journey that many manufacturers are going through as they embrace MaaS, can you tell us what MaaS is and give us a brief history of MaaS? Ed Garibian: Yes, I’ve watched…
Read MoreWebinar Explores Food and Beverage Manufacturing Challenges from a Manufacturer’s Perspective
There are two parts to every customer case study; challenges and a solution. SunnyD, a user of LLumin operations software for more than a decade, will speak to both in a one-hour webinar on April 7 at 1 pm EST. Register now to hear from the popular beverage manufacturer first-hand. In short, SunnyD, formerly known…
Read MoreManufacturing in a World of Disrupted Supply Chains
Supply chains are not impervious to disruption, be they caused by natural disasters (pandemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.), changes in political leadership, military actions, tariffs and viruses. That’s because manufacturers often rely on parts produced in countries around the world to manufacture their finished products. In the resulting world of turmoil, manufacturers can take decisive steps…
Read MoreU.S. Manufacturing Is Bouncing Back
There has been much discussion of the state of manufacturing in America, with many pundits seeing gloomy times in industries such as automotive. Other forms of manufacturing are starting to show signs of a comeback. In January 2020, some industries have rebounded, and eight out of the 18 industries reported growth, according to research cited in a Seeking Alpha report. Listed in order, these are Furniture & Related Products; Wood Products; Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products; Computer & Electronic Products; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Products; Chemical Products; and Fabricated Metal Products. Learn which manufacturing industries have contracted.
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