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Articles: Maintenance Management

Is Your Company Running Scared?

Fight or Flight Might Not Be Your Best Strategy

by Chris Colson and Timothy R. Weilbaker


Any time a market (or an entire economy) declines, there are certain behaviors that we can expect to observe in companies.  The specific actions we witness should come as no surprise to even the casual observer, especially since the actions taken by companies during tough financial periods are also observable in individual human behavior during times of great fear.  And what other emotion would be more fitting than fear when corporate revenue experiences a sustained decline?

Level 5 Leadership - What Is It and How Do I Achieve It?

By Winston P. Ledet

Leadership is a subject that seems to be undergoing a dramatic change in recent times. The transformation seems to be from the "great man" point of view to the "great team" point of view. The reason for this shift may be that the level of complexity in today's world is much higher and therefore requires a more complex method of leadership.

Making Ice Cream More Reliably - Wells Dairy - In the Midst of the Journey

Going from vision to reality in a reliability journey - and how the process grows and changes as the culture transforms from the complacency of run to failure, to the accountability of continuous improvement - is an experience that anyone in the maintenance and reliability profession should get excited about. In this article, we will take a look at a reliability centered effort still in the midst of this journey.

Orange County Container Group Achieved Over $3 Million in Savings With CMMS Implementation

Presented by Gene Pargas

Bill Chant credits the success of the CMMS implementation and the subsequent savings to many factors, including a team effort involving maintenance, IT, accounting, auditors, suppliers, and production, all dedicated to getting it right the first time.

Multi-million dollar savings is big news in any language. When Orange County Container Group (OCCG) implemented eMaint X3 CMMS (featuring bilingual customer support) to track inventory across multiple locations, they found substantial savings in what initially looked like small numbers.

Past, Present, and Future of Maintenance

Presented by Jordan Berkley

Maintenance reliability strategy continues to evolve as organizations seek new areas to improve performance and decrease cost. Uptime Magazine invited Jordan Berkely to share his vision of the future with you.

Reaching For The Top

Creating a New Partner with Reliability Centered Operations

by Paul R. Casto, CMRP

To optimize both maintenance risk and cost, the interrelationships between reliability, maintenance and operations must be considered and leveraged to capitalize on the strengths of each.  Reliability Centered Operations (RCO) is an approach that optimizes these relationships through the application of a maintenance strategy built from failure analysis that will yield more expansive and cost-effective risk reduction tasks.

Reliabilityweb.com 100 Top Web Sites

It's Back - The Top 100 web sites serving as information and networking resources for maintenance and reliability professionals from around the world.

To nominate your favorite resource site please send an email to Top100@reliabilityweb.com  

Repairable Spares: The Complete Program

By Daniel DeWald, CPIM

The establishment of a repairable spares program is essential to complete a solid MRO (maintenance parts, repair, and operating supplies) management program. Repairing parts before the point of failure is a strategy that reduces maintenance costs, reduces purchasing dollars in buying new equipment, and reduces the need for an increased capital budgeting process.

Reshaping Sugar

The Transformation of U.S. Sugar

by Darrin Wikoff, CMRP

A 12% increase in production capacity over three years with virtually no increase in operating costs makes United States Sugar Corporation the leading producer of retail and industrial bulk sugar in the United States.

Six Steps to A Healthy Machine

Introduction: Most condition assessment programs in industry concentrate on one or two technologies. The people, procedures and practices are tailored to those technologies. Application of the technology is optimized, rather than the results. This paper advocates a machine centered, as opposed to a technology centered, approach to the assessment of the condition of machinery. Just as your physician uses a variety of tests and evaluations to assess your state of health, we should do the same for our machinery. To do less means we make decisions based on incomplete information.

SKF Assists TOTAL E&P Indonesia with Their First Combined Maintenance & Inspection Strategy Program

All oil and gas exploration and processing projects should be supported with a tailored strategy for their maintenance and inspection requirements, and facilities should be started up with their Maintenance and Inspection program properly defined by function and should be readied in systems that will support the execution of that work. These are typically big support activities covering all equipment and their sub-assemblies.

Taking Charge

Increase Safety & Reliability with Integrative Predictive Maintenance

by  Dale P. Smith, CMRP

MaintenanceElectricity, and its uninterrupted distribution through our nation, facilities and lives, is an inescapable requirement and the backbone of progress in today’s society.  The resurgence of US commerce is not possible without it.  Safe and reliable electrical distribution systems typically start out as being well engineered, with bright futures provided they receive regular, adequate maintenance and periodic testing.

Terry Wireman Recommended Reading List

Maintenance expert and Author, Terry Wireman is a great supporter of Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine and has contributed his knowledge and experience since we began in 1999.  Recently we requested that Terry create a list of books he would recommend for any maintenance and reliability professional who was striving for something greater.  This list he contributed follows and is linked to the MRO-Zone.com bookstore when possible and Amazon when not.  We hope you find value in this list and that you will leave a comment at the end of this article. 

The 3 Major Causes of Variation that Kill Reliability

Variation is the worst enemy of Reliability and most people are not even aware of it.

How do you reduce Variation and thus increase Reliability of your assets? We could probably make a long detailed list of items on "Causes of Variation" in our maintenance process which impact Reliability, but let's look at three of the major causes.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Maintenance Organizations

by Paul Swatkowski

Through his books and audio programs, Steven Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and other works, has been a great influence on me and many of my colleagues.  Over the years I’ve noticed a direct correlation of the practices of successful maintenance organizations and Dr. Covey’s seven habits.  This article is based directly on Dr. Covey’s seven habits.  It is drawn habit-by-habit from his book but with the examples modified to fit the maintenance world.

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