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The manufacturing industry relies heavily on maintenance to keep equipment up and running at peak performance levels. Corrective maintenance will play a role in a company’s preventive maintenance processes or reactive responses to equipment failures and breakdowns. In this article, we will explore corrective maintenance in more depth. If you’re in a hurry, skip ahead to get the most interesting information: What is Corrective Maintenance? How Does Corrective Maintenance Work? Benefits of Corrective Maintenance in Manufacturing Corrective Maintenance Use Cases Implementation: Challenges and Solutions LLumin’s CMMS+ Overview Improve Your Maintenance Strategy With LLumin What is Corrective Maintenance? Corrective Maintenance refers...

Maintenance key performance indicators (KPIs) are beneficial for determining ways to increase production, limit costs, and extend the service life of machines. They are frequently used to measure improvement in facility operations and may indicate ways to improve facility efficiency. By understanding these maintenance KPIs, maintenance and facility managers gain valuable information on how recent updates and future changes impact facilities and machine longevity. Today, we will discuss common maintenance KPIs, how to calculate them, the usefulness of each KPI to managers, and how LLumin's computerized maintenance management system (CMMS+) software can help improve maintenance KPIs. What Are Maintenance KPIs...

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), like production efficiency, are metrics that help maintenance managers determine optimal operating conditions of people, processes, and equipment. The production efficiency formula will determine where your actual output and standard (or optimal output) intersect. This is important because it helps professionals understand the point at which they operate at maximum production levels and efficiency.  This article will introduce you to the production efficiency formula. We’ll provide some key steps for calculating it and best practices for improving your facility's production and efficiency levels before introducing LLumin’s CMMS+ (Computerized Maintenance Management System).  What is Production Efficiency? Production...

How frequently does your equipment fail? The mean time between failure (MTBF) formula isn’t complicated—all the complexities are introduced upon implementation. However, you will need to collect the right data and analyze it correctly to yield actionable insights. Today, we will explore: The mean time between failure formula How to use the formula effectively (with examples) How to reduce your mean time between failure If you need to know more, reference Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and MTTR: a Complete Guide. So, let's dive in and look at the mean time between failure and some examples. What Is Mean Time...

Maintenance planning and maintenance scheduling are not the same thing. On the one hand, you can plan to carry out your maintenance schedule and then postpone actually scheduling it. Scheduled maintenance involves deciding on a certain task to be performed, determining the time or date the maintenance will occur, and then assigning maintenance to the right technician. Understanding and properly implementing scheduled maintenance can improve equipment uptime and performance, efficiency, and lower costs. This article will explain what scheduled maintenance is, how it works, how to calculate it, and how to improve it. What is Scheduled Maintenance? As previously mentioned,...

If your organization wants to improve workplace safety and efficiency and reduce costs associated with unexpected breakdowns, knowing how to prevent equipment failure should be a top priority. This article will explore the most common causes of equipment failure and suggest practical solutions you can implement to avoid these setbacks.  Additionally, we’ll highlight how LLumin’s Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS+) can take preventive maintenance to higher levels of reliability. Common Causes of Equipment Failure Several factors can cause equipment failure; however, there are some common culprits across different types of equipment. We've listed the most common ones below for your...

In the age of smartphones and digital connectivity, maintenance management practices and outcomes must include mobility as a core premise of maintenance operations – or prepare for their facilities’ inevitable decline. Despite the increased efficiency and profits that result from adopting mobile technology in countless other industries, a recent study by Plant Engineering reveals that 65% of industrial and manufacturing organizations do not use mobile devices for maintenance task completion or management. The future of efficiency, convenience, employee engagement, and reliability lies with mobile technology, which encompasses devices, strategies, and mobile maintenance software. Leveraging such technology enables maintenance teams to...

Industrial maintenance is increasingly moving toward higher levels of technological advancement and complexity, with strategies like condition-based, predictive, and prescriptive maintenance leading the way in ensuring equipment reliability. Amidst these evolving changes, however, Time-Based Maintenance (TBM), historically known as periodic-based maintenance, remains a common approach to maintenance management.  This guide will explore TBM, providing insight into its mechanisms, pros and cons, and implementation, as well as context for its evolution and the statistical models that support it. What is Time-Based Maintenance? TBM is a maintenance strategy that involves scheduling maintenance activities at regular, predetermined intervals based on the equipment's estimated...

What is Maintenance Management? At its core, maintenance management is an organized approach and practice specific to the staging, coordination, execution, and tracking of maintenance tasks. This encompasses everything from emergency repairs to comprehensive preventive and predictive maintenance programs.  Maintenance management is particularly crucial in industrial and manufacturing settings where machinery and production-focused equipment serve as the operation’s backbone and downtime cannot be tolerated.  What Does a CMMS Software Solution Do? A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is a software application that facilitates and automates the process of maintenance management. With a CMMS, you can efficiently plan, schedule, and execute...

Any business that relies on mission-critical machinery and equipment will require an effective maintenance program. To perfect the process, careful maintenance planning and scheduling will be required. These two processes are inextricably linked, and they form the structure that determines how well machines run, how well resources are allocated and used, and how much unexpected downtime a company will experience. We've created this guide to help you navigate the maintenance planning and scheduling process, highlighting everything from potential challenges to case-specific concerns, success stories, and the transformative role an advanced Maintenance Management Software solution like LLumin CMMS+ can play in...