Archive for March, 2009

Preventive Maintenance Management – Six Ways to Optimize Your PM System

By Sembangkilang - Last updated: Monday, March 16, 2009

Facilities directors are a busy lot.  Emergencies seem to arise from nowhere, and coordinating a response takes quick thinking and good leadership skills.  It is little wonder, then, that day-to-day maintenance is often put on a backburner.  Sadly, the more frequently time and resources are diverted from maintenance to handle emergencies, the more emergencies you [...]

Why Total Productive Maintenance initiatives sometimes fail?

By Sembangkilang - Last updated: Saturday, March 14, 2009

Author: Drew D. Troyer, Cre, Cmrp 
 
In the July/August 2006 issue of Reliable Plant magazine, I wrote an editorial entitled “Zen and the Art of Operator Maintenance.” In this article, I offered my views on involving operators in the plant reliability management equation. I suggested that the best place to start is to get operators working [...]

Why do you need Total Productive Maintenance?

By Sembangkilang - Last updated: Saturday, March 14, 2009

All task and activities that we want to do must have a reason and purpose. This shall include total productive maintenance activity. But before we answer why do we need total productive maintenance or so caled TPM let us ask 1 question. Are machines design to breakdown? Of course not. If not nobody or factory [...]