John Q. ToddSr. Business Consultant/Product Researcher Total Resource Management (TRM), Inc. Everyone loves innovation. So many cool things are on the market for us to buy and benefit from due to the innovative thinking of some engineer grinding away in...
Owe Forsberg
VP of IDCON Inc., an Independent Subsidiary of TRM.
If you don’t know by now, the maintenance planning and scheduling process is integral to reliability in industrial and facilities management. Over my 30 years in industry, I have seen a lot of mistakes in the managing of these interconnected processes. I’m detailing the most common planning and scheduling mistakes to avoid (of course, there are many more).
Greg Mecomber
Reliability & Maintenance Consultant – IDCON, Inc
an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
There’s a certain category of maintenance jobs known as “small jobs” which meet four criteria. This type of job is managed instead of planned and as such they do not need to go through the formal planning process.
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
This article discusses several elements to consider when making attempts to improve your first-time fix rate.
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
Discussing the relationship: IT- the folks who deliver the technology we need and Maintenance/Operations, in the field getting dirty.
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
Given a specified efficiency goal, let’s say a 1% decrease in downtime, we can make use of tools and data to confirm (or not) that our maintenance operation is.
Tor Idhammar
President & CEO, IDCON, Inc. Reliability and Maintenance Consultant
IDCON is an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
Tor covers many aspects of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling the two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
There’s a difference between business processes and reality but they can become one in the same with some guidance and knowledge of industry best practices.
Owe Forsberg
CMRP, CAMA, VP of IDCON, Inc.
an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
Part 2 introduces you to Risk Based Work Selection for shutdown or turnarounds. This technique ensures that you’re working on the right maintenance jobs.
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
Ensuring physical assets fulfill their intended functions, considering context its operating within, you require insights and insights require data collection.
One of the key elements of an efficient maintenance operation is the degree of planning and scheduling that is performed. What this effort looks like may be different from one organization to another, and the impact of not paying attention to this important task...
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
Adopting standards that are related to your industry goes a long way towards making business processes more effective, repeatable, error-proof, and perhaps even safer.
